Editing Helvetica (section)

===Manoptica===
[[File:Manoptica dry-transfer sheet.png|thumb|right|A partial dry transfer sheet of Manoptica. The adaptation of Latin glyphs A, a, U, u, R, W, B, n and S to Thai are visible.]] [[Manoptica]] (1973) was an early effort to adapt Helvetica to the [[Thai script]]. It is named after and designed by Manop Srisomporn, who designed several typefaces for Thai using the same innovations he used for Manoptica (such as an adaptation of [[Eurostile]]). It was highly influential in [[Thai typography]] in that it popularized the removal of the small loops and other flourishes that had theretofore been distinguishing marks on Thai characters and adopted letter forms that bore strong resemblance to Latin letters. It became a widely popular style in advertising and influenced other simplified typefaces for Thai in the following decades.<ref>{{cite web |author1=Pracha Suveeranont |title=มานพติก้า |url=https://thaifaces.com/thaitype/manoptica/ |website=๑๐ ตัวพิมพ์ กับ ๑๐ ยุคสังคมไทย (10 Faces of Thai Type and Thai Nation) |publisher=Thaifaces |access-date=22 May 2020 |language=th |archive-date=16 May 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200516100946/https://thaifaces.com/thaitype/manoptica/ |url-status=live }} Originally exhibited 18–31 October 2002 at the Jamjuree Art Gallery, Chulalongkorn University, and published in ''Sarakadee''. '''17''' (211). September 2002.</ref> The adoption of loopless typefaces remains a source of controversy in Thai typography.<ref>{{cite conference |last1=Punsongserm |first1=Rachapoom |last2=Sunaga |first2=Shoji |last3=Ihara |first3=Hisayasu |title=Roman-like Thai typefaces: Breakthrough or Regression? |conference=ICDHS 10th+1 Barcelona 2018|book-title=Back to the Future. The Future in the Past. Conference Proceedings Book |date=October 2018 |pages=580–585 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329335972}}</ref>
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