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Suon May Sophanith (born January 06, 1998) Sophanith is a Cambodian typeface designer based in Phnom Penh. He works as graphic designer and provides custom font design tasks. He began his journey in type design in 2015 and has made a significant contribution by widely sharing his Khmer fonts freely within the community. Among his typeface is Konkhmer Sleokchher which was released through the Google Fonts catalogue in 2023.

Early life
Sophanith grew up in Phnom Penh and became interested in letter design while attending Bak Touk High School. His twin brother is also graphic designer, Suon May Sophanna.

After graduating from high school in 2016, he continued his studies at Phnom Penh International University majoring in Computer Science and graduated in 2021.

Career
After receiving a CS from Phnom Penh International University, He became a Designer in private company after he worked NGOs in 2019. He created a number of the typefaces that are best known. He joined a Group of Khmer Font Design in 2016, and shares type design there alongside within this group.

He started in type design in 2015, when there were few designs, to help students and the next generation and make their work easier and more attractive.

Published works
Kh Phanith Bobble is one of fonts on his site, which he spent about six months creating and released in 2022. His working on designs aimed at giving students choices of Khmer fonts for academic.

In the beginning, there were a lot of fonts that he designed, but they were experimental and not very good. So he started doing it again in 2015. At the end of 2022, he also introduced the Khmer font "Konkhmer Sleokchher" to be used internationally.

Recognition
Khmer font that he first designed in 2015 on Google Font. The Khmer font that he introduced internationally is called "Konkhmer Sleokchher". The decision to introduce the khmer font was made so that the use of Khmer fonts was more comprehensive and the design was more creative and diverse. Sophanith also launched a free Khmer font called "Kh Phanith Bobble" in 2022. He known as khmer fonts contributor within the community widely and all of the fonts he has created are intended to be free for students to use in their studies or designs.

Typeface design
His fonts are fancy and users use them mostly in titles for artwork, his fonts are fancy and users use them mostly in titles for artwork with a medium size, it is ideal for use as headings or in large typography.

Typeface
Suon May Sophanith's typefaces include:


 * Konkhmer Sleokchher, 2015
 * KonKhmer_RorBongPhtaes, 2015
 * KonKhmer_BesDong, 2015
 * KonKhmer_JivitNis, 2016
 * KonKhmer_Moul, 2016
 * KonKhmer_AksorKhnhom, 2017
 * KonKhmer_Arom, 2017
 * KonKhmer_SongHa, 2017
 * KonKhmer_AksorKhnhom, 2017
 * KonKhmer_KeanSvay, 2017
 * KonKhmer_KeanSvay1, 2017
 * KonKhmer_KeanSvay2, 2017
 * KonKhmer_KeanSvay3, 2017
 * KonKhmer_NakChomBang, 2017
 * KonKhmer_DuyMech, 2017
 * Kh Phanith Bobble, 2022