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[This page offers links related to typefaces for the Korean script. The Korean alphabet is known as Hangul or Hangeul in South Korea and Chosongul in North Korea. The writing system for the Korean language was created by King Sejong the Great in 1443. For type design in South Korea, go here. For type design in North Korea, go here. ]








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Seoul, Korea-based designer of the custom sci-fi typeface OXS (2014: for Latin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

3dlogo

Interesting archive with MSMincho, MSGothic, Wadalab Gothic, dfpop9, hgrgep, hgrskp, hgrsmp, all Japanese fonts in truetype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

A. Lee
[ttf-alee]

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Aaron Bell
[Saja TypeWorks]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

ACAF

ACAF stands for Ascender Compact Asian Fonts. Their blurb at the launch in 2006: ACAF uses proprietary techniques to render the complex ideographs found in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) scripts. By using component outlines, versus entire character outlines, ACAF offers significant benefits over standard TrueType or OpenType font formats. And unlike other compact font formats, such as stroke or stick fonts, the quality of Ascender Compact Asian Fonts is such that no embedded bitmaps are necessary for typical screen sizes. This savings in space by reusing pierces of font outlines is useful for high quality (scalable) fonts on mobile devices and digital TVs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

acsesarymenu

Korean truetype font archive including these fonts by HanYang Systems: HYSooN-MyeongJo, HYBackSong-Bold, HYMokPan-Bold, HYPillGi-Light, HYPosT-Light, H2cysM, HYBuDle-Medium, HYLongSamul-Medium, HYSeNse-Light, HYTaJa-Bold, HYYeatGul-Medium, HYYeaSo-Medium (1995). Plus esop (Morris Design, 2000), GaramB-HM (Human Computers, 1996), JasuB-HM (Human Computers, 1996), and Nuggim (Qnix, 1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Adaylife
[Hee Jun Kim]

Adaylife is the Berlin-based foundry of Hee Jun Kim. He published the squarish sans family ADIL Sans, the script typeface Love Letter, and the art deco typeface Rolly Pops in 2010.

In 2012, he created the super-fat counterless octagonal Korean typeface Nemo Nemo Hanguel.

Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Adrien Midzic

Fatnobrain was Adrien Midzic's design studio in Paris. Born in 1982, he co-founded Pizza Typefaces with Luc Borho in 2018. Midzic designed these typefaces or type families: Fine (lineal), Blokus (free pixel font, 2009), Cimen (strong sans, designed for Smacl Entraide), Mesquine (lineal), Blitz, Cucha, Stencil Reverse, Huit (2009, a gorgeous didone headline face), Stenha (stencil).

Fonts made in 2010: The ETH family (art deco sans).

Custom typefaces by Midzic: Aquitaine (2013, for Région Aquitaine), Nilka (2013, for his personal identity), No End (2013, a fat didone), Ethon Serif (2013, a perked up serif typeface for Penguin Books), Kasai Est (2011, for the Congo-based Kasai Est Magazine), Festival De Film Documentaire (2011), Nevenka (2011, condensed sans).

In 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jason Vandenberg, Jérémie Hornus, Julien Priez and Alisa Nowak co-designed the creamy script Vanilla FY. It was renamed Vanille FY after a few days. Still in 2014, Adrien Midzic, Jérémie Hornus and Alisa Nowak co-designed the very humanist sans family Saya FY and Saya Semisans FY. Adrien Midzic and Joana Correia co-designed Saya Serif FY (2015).

At the free font cooperative Velvetyne, he published the sans typeface Lack (2014).

In 2015, he made the 3-style sans typeface Suber for an art fair in Paris. The roman transitional typeface Bota Serif (2015), which was inspired by Cochin (designed by Charles Peignot in 1912) is a custom font designed for Hotel des ventes de Poitiers. In 2017, it was finally released for retail.

In 2016, Adrien designed the bold titling typeface Debeo and the modern condensed Latin/Arabic typeface 29LT Adir (with Naji El Mir; at 29 Letters).

In 2017, he published the piano key typeface Mixal, which became a large experiment on variable fonts and is free for everyone.

Typefaces from 2018: Kern, Kern Office (a sans with some Futura features), Forno (sans), VTF Lack (a free single weight monoline geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic, published by Velvetyne), Metal (an all caps multi-width variable font originally designed for marché Dauphine), Orelo (a 120-style high-contrast fashion mag font family; +Orelo Hangul, 2020).

Typefaces from 2019: Ultra Solar (experimental), 1871 Mane (a custom sans typeface), Wasa (a tense sans in seven styles), Shrill, Gangster Grotesk (free), Stupid (a hacker / hipster font), Kern (geometric sans).

Typefaces from 2020: Shreck Issue (very tall and ultra-condensed), Metal (brutalist), Version ACT (a two-axis variable font), Debeo (a heavy sans), Dozza (a hybrid family named after ITC Mendoza by Jose Mendoza Almeida), XMX (experimental).

Typefaces from 2021: Campingo (a roundish informal typeface inspired by camping and outdoor life), Bota (with Ines Davodeau: first designed for Boissnot&Tailliez, Bota is a modern interpretation of Georges Peignot's Cochin (2012)), Pleasure (hipsterism pushed to the fringe of addiction), Model Standard (ModelStandard Mono, ModelStandard SemiMono, ModelStandard Sans).

Dafont link. Klingspor link. Behance link. Another Behance link. Hellofont link. Velvetyne link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

AG Font
[Choi Jeong Ho]

AG Font is a commercial Korean type foundry that sells typefaces by Choi Jeong Ho, who studied at Hongik Universit. A timeline of their fonts:

  • 2017. Developed logotype for Gugak Broadcasting Systemi and created Shinsegae for Shinsegae department store. Released AGSuperBlackGothic.
  • 2016. Developed Arita Heiti for Amore Pacific.
  • 2015. Released AG Myrrh.
  • 2014. Released AG Mano. Developed Arita Buri for Amore Pacific.
  • 2013. Released AG Leesang and AG Ahnsangsoo Rounded.
  • 2012. Updated AG Ahnsangsoo.
  • 2011. Developed Arita Sans for Amore Pacific.
  • 2007. Developed Hankil for Korea's Ministry of Land and Ocean.
  • 2006. Developed Arita Dotum for Amore Pacific. Released AG Ahnsangsoo.
  • 2004. Released the origibal Soo series (Ahnsangsoo, Myrrh, Mano, Leesang) by Hangeul Design Research Lab.
  • 1993. Released Mano.
  • 1992. Released Myrrh.
  • 1991. Released Leesang.
  • 1988. Original drawing of the typeface Choijeongho.
  • 1985. Design of Ahnsangsoo.

Fonts by other designers: Gongan, 310Ahnsamyeol, 310DongDong, 310U-haehae, RyuGounHangeul, RyuDonggeulHangeul. Custom fonts: Shinsegae, Seokbo, Arita. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahn Graphics

Korean type foundry in Seoul. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahn Sam-yeol

South Korean type designer based in Seoul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahn Sam-yeol

Korean winner in 2013 of the Tokyo Type Directors award for type design for a Hangul font called Anh sam-yeol. In 2017, he published the Hangul typeface Junginja. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ahn Sang-soo

Korean type designer. Interview. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Akalune

A free version of Bitstream Vera Sans Mono that covers Hangul as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Alan Wood's Unicode Resources

Great Unicode jump page. Has a page showing all fonts that support the various Unicode ranges. Check, for example, his Shavian Unicode sub-page. Unicode font utilities. Some font downloads, including the Unicode font MPH Damase (2005, Mark Williamson). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Anh Hyun-Mi

Seoul-based creator of Subway Typeface (2013) for Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arabia Ware Benelux

Vendor of Mac and PC fonts for several languages and from a variety of companies, active ca. 1999. The fonts covered Japanese, Chinese, Russian, Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Urdu, Tamazight, Turkish, Greek, Indic, Thai, Eastern European, and Korean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Arphic Technology Co

Taiwanese font company in Taipei. In 1999, they donated four TrueType fonts to the Open Source community under the Arphic public license. These four fonts consist of two Sung type typefaces and two Kai type typefaces, each for traditional and simplified Chinese: bkai00mp.ttf (AR PL KaitiM Big5), # # P L # # Big5 (14148) bsmi00lp.ttf (AR PL Mingti2L Big5), gkai00mp.ttf (AR PL KaitiM GB), gbsn00lp.ttf (AR PL SungtiL GB).

It sells the UniFonts 2000 package, as well as an XPDF font pack. Many of the free Chinese fonts on the web originate from Arphic. For example, here, one could download these fonts from 1998: Arphic-Mingti2-Light-BIG5, HerSin-Medium, InnMing-Bold, InnMing-Extra, InnMing-Heavy, InnMing-Medium, InnMing-Ultra, MaokaiEG-Bold-Big5, MaokaiEG-Extra-Big5, MaokaiEG-Heavy-Big5, NewGothic-Bold, NewGothic-Extra, NewGothic-Heavy, NewGothic-Light, NewGothic-Medium, OvlapRound_Outline-Ultra, PensinkaiEG-Light-Big5, PensinkaiEG-Medium-Big5, Pop1-Bold, Pop2EG-Bold-Big5, Pop3EG-Extra-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big5, Pop3EG-Medium-Big565329, ShanHeiSun-Light, ShanheisunEG-Bold-Big5, ShanheisunEG-Medium-Big5, SingkaiEG-Bold-Big5, SingkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdKai-Medium, StdMing-Medium, StdkaiEG-Bold-Big5, StdkaiEG-Light-Big5, StdsungEG-Bold-Big5, StdsungEG-Heavy-Big5, StdsungEG-Light-Big5, TankuinEG-Bold-Big5, YankaiEG-Heavy-Big5, YankaiEG-Ultra-Big5, YenRound-Bold, YenRound-Extra, YenRound-Heavy, YenRound-Light, YenRound-Medium, YenRound-Ultra, ZuinnEG-Medium-Big5. Their Japanese fonts are sold by Dex Web. FireFly, a Taiwanese company, maintains the free font AR PL New Sung (2004), which was originally an Arphic font. Monotype sells many fonts, such as the sake barrel font Arphic PKanteiryu JIS. Alternate URL.

In 2018, they published the multilingual (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and many other languages) font Jing Xi Hei (+Hair, +Thin, very nice weights), AR DC Qing Yuan, AR DC HY Jian Wei, AR Fang Xin Shu.

Typefaces from 2019: AR Shu Yuan Song.

People presently involved with Arphic include Teresa Mou (senior font designer), Jeff Wu (Genral manager), Grace Yang, Judy Lee (senior font designer), Edwina Lee (strategic cooperation manager), August Lan (head of Font Wizard), and Kaku Kuo (team leader and font designer). Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asiafont

Commercial Korean font site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Asiasoft

Vendor of Korean, Japanese and Chinese software, including font packs for Mac and PC. AsiaSoft Inc./AsiaTech Inc. is located in Vero Beach, FL. Their font Urdu Naskh Asiatype (2001) for Urdu can be found here and here. Pashto Kror Asiatype (1994-2002) is here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AsiaSoft

Korean type foundry based in Seoul. In 2018, it published the handcrafted typefaces Stylish and Black and White Picture at Google Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

AvantPage: Beautiful Korean Fonts

Commercial vendor from Davis, CA, with great-looking seemingly commercial Korean fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bae Eunkyung

Seoul-based motion graphic designer. Behance link. He made an art deco alphabet poster in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baegun Gyeonghan

Buddhist monk. Korean printer of the first book that used movable metal type, in 1372 during the Goryeo Dynasty. He lived from 1298 until 1374. Jikji is the abbreviated title of a Korean Buddhist document, Anthology of Great Buddhist Priests' Zen Teachings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baek Sua

Incheon, Korea-based designer of the decorative Latin typeface Shadow (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Baekmuk (was: Hwan Design)
[Jeong Hwan Kim]

Korean company that developed the freeware Hangul fonts Baekmuk Dotum (sans), Baekmuk Batang (serif), Baekmuk Gulim (warm rounded sans) and Baekmuk Headline (heavy). All fonts were made by JeongHwan Kim between 1986 and 2002, and cover Korean, Japanese and Chinese. CTAN download site. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beatrice Davies

Bio copied from Fust & Friends, a foundry set up in 2017 by Jan Middendorp in Berlin: Beatrice Naomi Davies grew up in Acquapendente, Central Italy, but as a young girl spent two years in New York and two years in Seoul, South Korea, where her grandmother lived. She attended IISAC art high school in Orvieto, Italy. In 2010 she attended the School of Visual Arts of New York, NY. She moved to Berlin in early 2012. [...] She combines her illustration work with animation, theatre, branding, logo design and hand-lettering. She became MyFonts' principal illustrator and portrayed dozens of type designers. Noticing her stylistic versatility, Fust & Friends invited her to contribute a set of dingbats and illustrations compatible with Minjoo Ham's Teddy script---which became the Teddings font. Teddings (2017) was fontified by Andreas Seidel and Minjoo Ham. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Beautiful Family

A 35MB rar file with many Korean and Latin truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Beopho Choi

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Blackout (a blocky sans; for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), HU Garaetteok (a rounded headline sans), HU Mois (a handwriting typeface by Yehyeong Lee and Beopho Choi; Latin, Greek and Cyrillic), HU Kinderland (a fat finger font by SangHyeon Park and Beopho Choi). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Bitstream Cyberbit

From Bitstream's web page: "Bitstream Cyberbit is our award-winning international font. Based on one of our most popular and readable type designs (Dutch 801 BT [note: Bitstream's version of Times and Times New Roman]), it includes all the typographic characters for most of the world's major languages. Cyberbit is now available! The product release includes the roman weight of Dutch 801 BT, a "serif" font. (A serif font has small finishing strokes at the end of the main stems, arms, and tails of characters, while a sanserif font does not.) The font is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT. Future releases will provide support for "sanserif" typefaces, other platforms, other font formats, and even more languages. Bitstream Cyberbit is a work in progress. Bitstream is now distributing the roman weight of Cyberbit, free of charge, over the Internet! Remember, this release is in TrueType format for Windows 95 and Windows NT". --- Well, Bitstream no longer offers the font. It is still out there however. Try here, here, here, or here. Has these unicode ranges: Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A, Latin Extended-B, Spacing Modifier Letters, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew Extended (A and B blocks combined), Thai, Latin Extended Additional, General Punctuation, Currency Symbols, Letterlike Symbols, Number Forms, Arrows, Mathematical Operators, Miscellaneous Technical, Box Drawing, Block Elements, Geometric Shapes, Miscellaneous Dingbats, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Combining Diacritical Marks, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Arabic, Arabic Presentation Forms-A and -B, CJK (Chinese, Japanese, Korean) Symbols and Punctuation, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, CJK Compatibility, Hangul, CJK Unified Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, CJK Compatibility Forms, Small Form Variants, and Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bluemon

Fontstructor who made these typefaces in 2019: Tyllemi, Stonestamp, Glifter Serif, Cool S, Minimica, Small Roman Capitals, Biffxil, Mortimer, Typewriter Jeongeum (Hangul), Middle case, Xingshu Latin (oriental simulation), Ming Latin (oriental simulation), symmetics, Hangul Mod-2K. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bomi Ryu

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the fancyu Hangul typeface Ah Bom (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bomjun Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the design of BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bon Min

South Korean type designer who graduated from the MATD program at the University of reading in 2013. He writes about his graduation typeface Barbari, which covers Latin and Hangul, and has a range of sans and serif styles: The brush style was chosen to find a harmonization point between the Hangul and the Latin alphabet, solving the problems with different functions of the brush for each script. The Hangul brush script implies tradition and seriousness, while Latin follows the rhythmical movement of the human hand. Barbari is an interim result of this approach, intended for bilingual text in magazines and journals. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bona Sung

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the geometric typeface Diamond (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bongjin Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces: Do Hyeon (2015), Jua (2014), Yeon Sung (2016), Kirang Haerang (2017), BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020), BM Hanna 11yrs old, BM Hanna Air (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boseul Kim

As a student at Samsung Art and Design Institute, Boseul Kim created the Hangul display typeface Vine (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Boyung Yang

Korean communication design student at Parsons in New York. Creator of the Bozzle typeface (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brenners Template
[Ryul Davidson]

Korean designer of these typefaces:

  • Metaverse Display (2021). a squarish family.
  • Aleesya Rose (2021). A fashion mag font family in 14 styles. This led to Aleesya Serif by 2022.
  • Kymer Awon (2021). A stylish all caps display typeface.
  • Tilaa (2021, sans and serif). A 4-style mini-serif and sans typeface pair in which many adjacent letters are connected by hairline threads.
  • Amonos Display (2021). An 18-style circle-based sanswith truncated descenders.
  • Gernsheim (2021). An 18-style condensed sans for logos and headlines.
  • Along Sans Rasoe, Along Slab Work, Along Sans Rounded (a fat rounded monoline sans), Along Serif BSC (a contrast-rich serif family in 18 styles) and Along Slab, all released in 2020. Along Sans Grande (an ultra-condensed sans in 18 styles) followed in 2021.
  • Ensley (2020). A serif font in 18 styles.
  • Claudia Fiesta (2020). A high contrast fashion mag style typeface.
  • Belong Sans (2020).
  • The script typefaces Minnesota (Solid, Brush; almost in Treefrog style), Caminode (a wild script), Lewis Script and Blessing (a dry brush script in OpenType SVG format), all released in 2020.
  • Along Sans (2019). An organic and geometric sans family designed for headlines and logos. It is characterized by a wind-swept ascender on the k.
  • Quenbach (2019). A 36-style sharp-edged geometric sans.
  • Reost (2021). An 18-style monolinear organic circle-based sans.
  • Zenoa (2022). A 14-style luxuriant hipster serif.
  • Gibeon (2022). In 27 styles. A unicase display family characterized by its tall x-height, psychedelic traits and hipster era curves.

Creative Market link for Ryul Davidson (2021). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Brian Jongseong Park

Seoul-based designer who is working on the serif typefaces Naxia (2007, Greek) and Dobong (2006). He created Dobong (2006), which covers Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Brian Stell

Brian Stell works in the Font and Text team within Google's Internationalization Engineering group. He has been focused on engineering to make web fonts fast for all languages including Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.

Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Roboto: faster than a speeding bullet. The abstract sounds interesting: This talk looks at the current status of Google's work to deliver fonts 'instantly' to Chrome users. With 'instant' fonts, website designers no longer have to choose between web fonts (that slow the site down) or 'web safe' fonts (that are only available in limited styles). Imagine being free to use your branding fonts in extra-light, book, normal, medium, bold, or ultra-bold - with italic, condensed, and slab variants. A brief overview of how the technology works is presented along with references to more information. Also discussed are efforts to make this work on other major browsers. [Google] [More]  ⦿

BrosU

Korean art director who created a squarish typeface family called BrosU (2013).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Bruce Kwon

In 2011, with Nicolas Noh and Sung-woo Choi, Bruce Kwon co-designed the Apple system font Nanum Gothic (a sans for Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Hangul, NHN Corporation).

URL for NHN.

Google Fonts link: Nanum Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Byeongsu Kim

Or Emile Byeongsu Kim. Seoul, South Korea-based designer (b. 1976) of the wide display caps typeface family Wicked (2014, free at Dafont). In 2016, he designed the free rounded sans typeface family Crapaud, which comes in four forms, Gros Sans, Gros Gestalt, Petit Sans, and Petit Gestalt.

Behance link. Dafont link. Cargocollective link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ByongJu Kim

As a student, ByongJu Kim (Busan, Korea) designed the Latin hat-themed display typeface On Head (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ByoungHeon Park

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of the monolinear hand-drawn typeface HU Cookie (2020, with Haerin Lee and Rumi Kim), HU Wind Sans (2020: a 15-style sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and ByoungHeon Park), HU Hand Serif (2020: with Yehyeong Lee and Haerin Lee), and HU The Game (2020, with Haerin Lee), a typeface with mini-spurs and odd terminals that is designed for display.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Sangsang (a fat finger font by ByoungHeon Park and Jueun Kim), HU Masking Tape Latin (a masking tape font for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Rumi Kim and ByoungHeon Park), HU Big Round (a techno typeface by Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim).

Typefaces from 2022: HU Makingfilm (a stencil typeface by ByoungHeon Park and Jihoon Park). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Byung-in Kang

Korean type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Byungsun Park

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CAI's Software Page

Yidao Cai's free software. Most interesting is CNPRINT: "CNPRINT is a utility to print Chinese/Japanese/Korean (CJK) text (or convert to PostScript) under DOS, VMS and UNIX systems. It works just as a print command on your system. Currently GB, Hz, zW, BIG5, CNS, JIS, EUC, Shift-JIS, KSC, UTF8, UTF7 and UTF16 formats are supported. With its full Unicode support, it should be able to print other language (e.g. Thai, Vietnames, Arabic as well)." Also, MSHei and MSSong truetype fonts for Chinese, Korean and Japanese, developed by Stone Corporation, Zhuhai, China. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Caleb Cho

During his studies in Seoul, Korea, Caleb Cho created the bilined octagonal typeface Cegrid (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CE Lab

This Korean site has the truetype font Mpen (Human Computers Inc, 1998). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chang Ki Han
[Ckhans]

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Changbae Seo

Seoul-based graphic designer who spent some time in London. Behance link. As an experiment, he took a standard font, and connected the letters using a certain geometric algorithm to get a special effect. More analytic geometry went into the design of the squarish but rounded display typeface Box (2010). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Changchun Ye

Type designer. Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cheok Denk Young

Korean type designer who won an award at Granshan 2014 for the Korean typeface Yoongothic 700 (developed with Pyun-Suk Hoon). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cheolhong Kim

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Grid (2014), a modular compass-and-ruler typeface. In 2015, he published Silhouette and the op-art typeface Silhouette Style No. 2. In 2017, he published the grid-based typeface CK (2017).Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cheoljun Lim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). Cheoljun Lim participated in the design of the Hangul typefaces BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee) and BM Hanna Pro (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chike Lee

Illustrator and letterer in Seoul, Korea. In 2016, for a school project, she designed a traditional Korean knot font (for Latin) and called it Jieum. She also created the decorative caps typeface Korea (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cho Young Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Minhwa (2019), a decorative caps font based on Korean folk art. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Choi Eunkyu

Korean type designer. TheClassic (jointly developed by Park Yunjung, Choi Eunkyu, Kim Woori and Lee Hyunho) won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Choi Hyo Jin

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the brush style Hangul typeface Pocheon Makgeolli (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Choi Jeong Ho
[AG Font]

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Choi Jung-ho

One of the early Hangul type designers, 1916-1988. His typefaces are some of the most significant Hangul designs of the 20th century. He drew around fourty original typefaces for metal type and phototypesetting. He drew Hangul typefaces for novels and dictionaries in the 1950s, using the Benton pantograph to produce matrices. He also drew Hangul for phototypesetting machines from Shaken and Morisawa in the 1970s. His designs became a foundation of the most popular text typefaces in Korea such as Myung-jo and Gothic.

Regarding Myungjo: Choi's metal types include Choi Myungjo (Samhwa, 1958, and Dong-A, 1957). These types influenced the phototypes Choi Jung Myungjo (1970s, Shaken; Morisawa, 1972) and Choi Se Myungjo (1961, Morisawa), respectively. In the digital era, Choi Jung Myungjo heavily influenced SM's Jung Myungjo (1989), while Morisawa'a Choi Jung Myungjo led to Shinshin Myungjo (1989, SM) and Shin Myungjo (1989, SM). The latter typeface was at the basis of Apple's font Myungjo (1993).

Choi Jung-ho's work was researched by Eunyou Noh in her Ph.D. dissertation at Hongik University in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Choiseo Yun

Ansan, South Korea-based designer of Modern (2017: a sans titling typeface), and Yesul (2016: a rounded sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

ChoRok Won

Kimp'o, South Korea-based designer of the experimental Hangul typeface Music (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Chorong Kim

Graduate of ESAD Amiens (France), 2010-2012. Chorong's graduation typeface was the Latin-Thai alphabet called Phynong (2012). Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, and at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo (on the topic of Hangul font design).

At Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), he participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces:

  • Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim)
  • Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim).
  • IBM Plex Sans KR (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wujin Sim, Chorong Kim and Dohee Lee) is a free multilingual typeface at Google Fonts.
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Chung Linux

Hangul and Latin font archive> includes these Hangul pixel fonts by "Hana": HanaBrown, HanaKwangsoo, HanaMagic, HanaRegular, HanaSamul. Other Korean pixel fonts: Seoul Glow (2000, Seoul System Co), SDKwangSoo M (1998, SandollTypeBank), SJBrown9 (Estream), MagicR-HM (1996, Human Computers), 9 (Morris Design). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJK Fonts

Listing of CJK fonts, as of 2009.

  • Simplified Chinese, serifed: Beijing (M), Bitstream CyberBit (W), Bitstream CyberBitCJK (W), Code2000 (M), Fang Song (M), Kai (M), MS Song (W), NSimSun (W), NSimSun-18030 (W), SimSun (M W), SimSun-18030 (W), Song (M), STFangsong (M), STKaiti (M), STSong (M), STSong Std Acro (W), TSC JSong S TT (W).
  • Simplified Chinese, sans: Arial Unicode MS (W), Hei (M), MS Hei (W), SimHei (W), STHeiti (M).
  • Traditional Chinese, serifed: Apple LiSung (M), BiauKai (M), Ming (W), MingLiU (W), MSung Std Acro (W), PMingLiU (M W), TSC FMing S TT (W).
  • Traditional Chinese, sans: Apple LiGothic (M), Taipei (M).
  • Japanese, serifed: Hiragino Mincho Pro (M), Kozuka Mincho Pro Acro (W), MS Mincho (M W), MS PMincho (W), MS UI Gothic (W).
  • Japanese, sans: Hiragino Kaku Gothic Pro (M), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro (M), MS Gothic (M W), MS PGothic (M W), MS PMincho (M), Osaka (M), Osaka-Mono (M).
  • Korean, serifed: AppleMyungjo (M), Baekmuk Batang (W), Batang (M W), BatangChe (W), #GungSeo (M), Gungsuh (W), GungsuhChe (W), HY Shin Myeongjo Std Acro (W), #MyungjoNeue (M), PCMyungjo (M).
  • Korean, sans: AppleGothic (M), Baekmuk Dotum (W), Baekmuk Gulim (W), #GothicMedium (M), Gulim (M), Gulim Che (W), Gulim Old Hangul Jamo (W), New Gulim (W), Hangang (M), Seoul (M), #TaeGraphic (M).
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CJK Macro Package
[Werner Lemberg]

Werner Lemberg maintains the free CJK macro package of Asian btmap fonts for use in Latex2e. It includes the Hangul fonts han, han1 and hanja65 and the Japanese/Chinese fonts jfs56 (GB encoded, Fangsong style), jisksp40, kanji48, ntukai48 (Big5 encoded, Kai style), and the cns40 series (Song style). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CJK Quick Start

Pages by Gyula Zsigri on reading and writing Chinese, Japanese and Korean in English Windows. Mirror. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ckhans
[Chang Ki Han]

South Korean designer of the rounded sans typeface families Dol and Dol Condensed (2019). In 2020, he published Gridink (a 20-style squarish sans), Boodle (an 18-style rounded grotesk, +the dingbat font Boodle Patterned), Halenoir (a 102-style neo grotesk; +Halenoir Patterned, a fine dingbat font), Brans (a 18-style tall compressed sans family), Virtuose (an 18-style very condensed headline sans), Gravitica (a 27-style tall grotesque), Gravitica Compressed, Gravitica Mono (a 19-style monospaced almost typewriter sans), Gravitica Slab (in 14 styles), Gravitica Rounded, the 21-style layerable font set BKLN and the 42-style geometric sans family Heckney.

Typefaces from 2021: Andante (a 24-style elliptical organic monolinear sans), Helonik (a 23-style grotesk), Helonik Extended, Hoolister (a condensed rounded sans), Urbine (a 16-style rounded sans with an extensive character set that includes many dingbats), Buckin (a 20-style rounded sans), Geonik Pro (a 20-style almost monolinear geometric sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characterized by very short descenders), Geonik.

Typefaces from 2022: Andrial (a 21-style geometric sans). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Corel 13 CD: CJK fonts

The CJK fonts on the Corel 13CD, all by DynaLab, made in 1997: DFGothic-EB, DFGothic-SU, DFGothic-UB, DFGyoSho-Lt, DFKGothic-Bd, DFKGothic-Md, DFKMincho-Bd, DFKMincho-Md, DFKaiSho-Lt, DFKaiSho-Md, DFKaiSho-SB, DFKaiSho-UB, DFKoIn-W4, DFKyoKaSho-W4, DFLeiGaSo-W9, DFMaruGothic-Bd, DFMaruGothic-Lt, DFMaruGothic-Md, DFMaruMoji-SL, DFMaruMoji-W9, DFMincho-SU, DFMincho-UB, DFMincho-W5, DFPOP1-SB, DFPOP1-W12, DFPOP1-W3, DFPOP1-W5, DFPOP1-W9, DFPOP2-W12, DFPOP2-W9, DFRuLei-W5, DFRuLei-W7, DFSinSo-W3, DFSoGei-W7, DFSoKing-W3, DFSumo-W12, DFTFLeiSho-W5, DFTFLeiSho-W7, DFTFLeiSho-W9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CWTTF
[Tsong-Min Wu]

Some Taiwanese Free Software Foundation supporters designed a number of free Chinese truetype fonts under the guidance of Edward J. Lee between 1999 and 2005. People involved include Tsong-Min Wu and Tsong-Huey Wu. As of 2005, the fonts are cwTeXFangSong, cwTeXHeiBold, cwTeXKai, cwTeXMing, cwTeXYen. All fonts cover Chinese, Korean and Latin as well. The project is part of CLE (Chinese GNU/Linux Extensions) located in Taiwan. The fonts are especially useful with cwTeX. [Google] [More]  ⦿

CYanHeiHK

CYanHeiHK is an OpenType font based on Source Han Sans (SHS) from Adobe and Google (it is called Noto Sans CJK when distributed by Google). A number of glyphs have been modified so that it is more suitable for use in Hong Kong. Note: Source Han Sans / Noto Sans CJK were originally designed by Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang and Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Cyian Lee

During his studies in Seoul, Cyian Lee designed the hexagonal Latin typeface Hex (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

CYMingHK

CYMingHK is an OpenType font based on Source Han Serif from Adobe and Google (it is called Noto Serif CJK when distributed by Google). A number of glyphs have been modified so that it is more suitable for use in Hong Kong. Note: Source Han Serif / Noto Sans CJK were originally designed by Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang and Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Da Bin Lee

Busan, Korea-based designer of the decorative typeface Alphonse Mucha (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DaBeen

Seoul-based designer of a Korean font (2015). This font was finished during her studies at Soongui Women's College. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dae-Hoon Hahm

Type designer from Seoul, Korea. At S-Core, he co-designed the squarish Latin/Hangul typeface Core Dodam (2011), the shadow outline typeface Core Bandi (2012) and the hand-printed Core Narae (2011) with Hyun-Seung Lee. Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the programmers' typeface Eco Coding (2012) and the huge Core Sans, Core Sans G (geometric), Core Sans M and Core Sans N, Core Sans NR, and Core Sans N SC families (supported codepages are MS Windows 1252 Latin1, MS Windows 949 Korean (Hangul) consisting of 11,172 letters and KS Symbols (Korean Symbols)).

In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). See also Core Circus Rough (2014) and Core Magic Rough (2014), both jointly designed by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim. Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

In 2014, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham co-designed Core Sans D, Core Sans A, Core Rhino, Core Narae Pro (a Comic Sans alternative) and Core Deco (a 14-style art deco family). Core Escher (A and B) (2014) is a typeface family with impossible optical illusions, created by Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm. Core Paint (2014) is a grungy paint-splatter typeface family by Dong-Kwan Kim, Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm.

In 2015, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim co-designed the grotesque typeface family Core Sans E and added the soft and rounded Core Sans R to the S-Core Sans series, as well as Core Sans B. In 2016, they added the rounded small x-height family Core Sans BR and the geometric sans family Core Sans C. The rounded version of Core Sans A, called Core Sans AR was designed in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm. The rounded version of Care Sans C, called Core Sans CR, was designed in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm, and Dong-Kwan Kim. The neutral Core Serif N was added in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Daha Lee

Graphic designer in Busan, South Korea. He created an interesting poster called Hangeul lettering (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darina Yem

Artist in Gyeongjusi, Korea, who designed the textured (Latin) display typeface Rapan in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Darina Yem

Gyeongjusi, Korea-based designer of Dwang (2017, octagonal) and Flak (2017, weathered by stylish). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dasombang

Cloer (kitchen tile font from FLOP Design), Humanbuilding, Pilgi2 (Hangul font), SAKURAhira (kana font), SnowDream, Toon-Plain, VintageDingbats, ZingDing. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Daum Communications

Makers of the extensive sans Latin/Korean font Daum SemiBold. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dayeong Yu

Seoul, Korea-based designer of these display typefaces: Constellation (2015: connect-the-dots style), Zedo (2015: architectural), Maze (2015: pixelish), Angle (2015), Radioactivity (2015: dingbat font), Hangeul (Korean). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Denis Roegel
[LaTeX Navigator]

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Design210
[Doo-Yul Kwak]

Major Korean type foundry set up in 2014 by Korean type designer Doo-Yul Kwak. Design210 takes credit for about one thousand orginal fonts. Kwak developed several major corporate typefaces for clients that include Samsung and KIA Motors. Design210's typefaces published at MyFonts all cover Latin and Hangul:

  • 210 Namoogothic (2021, by Doo-Yul Kwak). A clean sans style with over 20 thousand glyphs covering also Japanese and Chinese.
  • 210 Kookminchejo. A sans style with a squarish Hangul part.

With Nicolas Noh, Doo-Yul Kwak codesigned the Latin/Hangul script font Nanum Brush Script (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. URL for NHN. Nanum Brush Script at Google Fonts.

While working for Sandoll, he won an award in the Granshan 2014 competition for Sandoll Tokyo. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Diven
[Youngjin Shin]

Youngjin Shin is a Seoul, South Korea-based type designer active at Diven, a design company, est. 2002 in Seoul, with a branch in Bangkok as well. In 2021, he released the Lattin/ Hangul font Nalgae Yunpil, which is characterized by brushed stroke endings. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Dodam RJ

Seoul, Korea-based graphic designer. Behance link. Creator of the experimental typeface Crosswalk (2009). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dohee Lee

Dohee Lee received a BA in visual communication design from Seoul National University. Her first Korean typeface, 134340, won a New Wave award from the Korea Font Association. Since joining Sandoll---the oldest and best known type foundry in Korea---in 2016, she has developed custom typefaces for major global brands along with retail fonts.

She studied in the interdisciplinary Art Science program at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague. Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of Building Hangul like an Architect: Utilizing Variable Fonts: In order to handle 11,172 glyphs of Hangul, designers often take an architect-like approach: they carefully devise a system to maintain consistency across all glyphs. This can't be done without sophisticated technology. Focusing on Smart Components and extensions in Glyphs 2, this presentation discusses how to categorize characters and how to create a Hangul development system.

IBM Plex Sans KR (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wujin Sim, Chorong Kim and Dohee Lee) is a free multilingual typeface at Google Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dohyun Han

Seoul, Korea-based designer of several decorative Latin caps typefaces in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Do-Kyung Lee

Korean type designer at the Korean type foundry Sandoll Communications Inc. He won an award at Granshan 2014 for the Korean typeface Sandoll Gothic Neo1 (developed with Kyung-Seok Kwon). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dokyung Lee

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp) and/or Sandll. Dokyung Lee participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces:

  • BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee)
  • Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim)
  • Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim)
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Dong Ha Kim

Seoul, Korea-based creator of the free grid-based typeface Freddie Mercury (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dong-A

Korean type foundry in the metal era which produced, e.g., Choi Myungjo in 1957. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dongchul

Seoul, Korea-based designer (b. 1987, Seoul) who created the slab serif Latin typeface Formula (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dong-hwi Kim

Seoul, South Korea-based creator of Spoqa Han Sans (2015-2016), an open source typeface family based on Noto Sans and Lato. It covers Latin, Korean, and Japanese. Githib link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dong-Kwan Kim
[Serious Fun Type Foundry]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Doo-Yul Kwak
[Design210]

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Dragonfly

Downloads of many truly free font packages for all languages. Besides the Ghostscript type 1 collection, the free Charter fonts, and the Utopia, Luxi and Courier series, we find these truetype fonts: 09t@, AndaleMono, Antiqu@rk, Arial-Black, Arial-BoldItalicMT, Arial-BoldMT, Arial-ItalicMT, ArialMT, Baekmuk-Batang, Baekmuk-Dotum, Baekmuk-Gulim, Baekmuk-Headline, Bandal, BitstreamCyberBase-Roman, BitstreamVeraSans-Bold, BitstreamVeraSans-BoldOblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSans-Roman, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Bold, BitstreamVeraSansMono-BoldOb, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Oblique, BitstreamVeraSansMono-Roman, BitstreamVeraSerif-Bold, BitstreamVeraSerif-Roman, BousungEG-Light-GB, ComicSansMS-Bold, ComicSansMS, CourierNewPS-BoldItalicMT, CourierNewPS-BoldMT, CourierNewPS-ItalicMT, CourierNewPSMT, Eunjin, GBZenKai-Medium, GeometricSlab703BT-Light, GeometricSlab703BT-LightItalic, Georgia-Bold, Georgia-BoldItalic, Georgia-Italic, Georgia, Impact, LuxiMono-Bold, LuxiMono-BoldOblique, LuxiMono-Oblique, LuxiMono, LuxiSans-Bold, LuxiSans-BoldOblique, LuxiSans-Oblique, LuxiSans, LuxiSerif-Bold, LuxiSerif-BoldOblique, LuxiSerif-Oblique, LuxiSerif, Kochi-Gothic, Kochi-Mincho, Ongdalsam, Sazanami-Gothic-Regular, Sazanami-Mincho-Regular, ShanHeiSun-Light, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPS-BoldMT, TimesNewRomanPS-ItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT, Trebuchet-BoldItalic, TrebuchetMS-Bold, TrebuchetMS-Italic, TrebuchetMS, UnBatang-Bold, UnBatang, UnBom, UnDotum-Bold, UnDotum, UnGraphic-Bold, UnGraphic, UnGungseo, UnJamoBatang, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoSora, UnPen, UnPenheulim, UnPilgi-Bold, UnPilgi, UnShinmun, UnTaza, UnYetgul, Verdana-Bold, Verdana-BoldItalic, Verdana-Italic, Verdana, Webdings, ZenKai-Medium. They cover European, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Dreamwiz

Pick up a Hangul truetype font by HanYang Systems (1994) and the Korean font YDIYGO330 (Yoon Design, 2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Duck Baek

Creative director in Seoul. In 2015, he created the Latin sans typeface DT321. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

DX Korea Inc

Korean type foundry that made typeface such as DXCSB-KSCpc-EUC-H (2011) and the handcrafted free Latin / Hangul font Single Day (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

DynaComware Corp

Taiwan-based foundry involved in the production of both Chinese and Japanese fonts, est. 1987 as DynaLab. It now has offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Taipei. FontShop link. It made fonts such as LiSong Pro (2003, distributed with Apple software), LiHei Pro (2003, for Chinese, which can be downloaded here), Biau Kai (1995, distributed with Apple software), DFP Kantei Ryu, DFP Kyokashotai, and DFP Reisho.

Linotype sells these (incomplete list): DF Brush Japanese Font Family, DF Bu Ding Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Bun Cho Min Japanese Font Family, DF Cai Dai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Craft Japanese Font Family, DF Dan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF En En Japanese Font Family, DF En Kai Japanese Font Family, DF Fang Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ga Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Gan Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gang Bi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Glide Japanese Font Family, DF Go Hitu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF H G Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Hai Bao Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Hibi Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Horror Japanese Font Family, DF Jin Wen Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF K Kai Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ka Gei Japanese Font Family, DF Kai Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Kaku Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Kaku Tai Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Tei Ryu Japanese Font Family, DF Kann Ting Liu Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ken Ryu Gyo Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Ki Sou Kyu Japanese Font Family, DF Kin Bun Japanese Font Family, DF Ko Tai O Hi Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Geki Japanese Font Family, DF Kyo Sui Japanese Font Family, DF Lei Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Li Jin Hei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Long Men Simplified Chinese Font Family, DFK Mincho Korean, DF Naughty Japanese Font Family, DF Neko Maru Japanese Font Family, DF PenJi Japanese Font Family, DF POP 1 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 2 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP 3 Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF POP Mix Japanese Font Family, DF Ren Ren Japanese Font Family, DF Renga Japanese Font Family, DF Ribon Japanese Font Family, DF Script Li Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Miao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Er Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Hsiu Traditional Chinese Font Family, Liu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tsai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Ya Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Yun Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Chu Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Mo Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Pao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Tou Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Script Qiao Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Shao Nv Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shi Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Shou Jin Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF So Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF SP Lei Sho Japanese Font Family, DF Star Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Std Kai Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Std Song Traditional Chinese Font Family, DF Stick Japanese Font Family, DF Tan Li Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Taru Gothic Japanese Font Family, DF Tegaki Warabe Japanese Font Family, DF Toge Pop Japanese Font Family, DF Wa Wa Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Wie Bei Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Ya Song Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF YaYi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Yu Ga So Japanese Font Family, DF Yuan Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zong Yi Simplified Chinese Font Family, DF Zou Kei Japanese Font Family.

Wawati (2012) is an Apple system font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Edward G.J. Lee
[LGJ Font Notes]

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egg green

South Korean designer of the multilined deco typeface 60s Stripe (2015), the techno Latin typeface Delta Universe (2015) and of Crooked (2015) and Bokeh (2015, with dots and dashes as outlines). In 2016, he designed the slab serif typeface I Am A Player. Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

ejkim

A Korean truetype font by Han-Media. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Emile Byeongsu Kim

Kwangjingu, South Korea-based designer (b. 1976) of the free rounded monoline sans typeface family Crapaud (2016). Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eugenie Kang

In 2014, Eugenie Kang (London, UK) and Bhavik Samani cooperated on the experimental United typeface. They used five basic shapes to draw al the letters of the Latin and Hangul alphabets. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eun You Noh

Or Eunyou Noh. Type designer and researcher from South Korea. She earned her Ph.D. in visual communications at Hongik University in 2011---her thesis was a study on Choi Jeong-ho's Hangul type designs. She started teaching Hangul type design at several universities, including Hongik. In 2012-2015, Eunyou Noh worked as a senior researcher at Ahn Graphics Typography Lab. She moved to the Netherlands in 2016, to study in the TypeMedia program at KABK, where her graduation typeface was Optique (2017). Eunyou currently lives in The Hague, working on a multi-script project.

She explains Optique: Optique is a multilingual typeface design project for Latin and Hangul in optical sizes. It is a serif typeface based on the tools of each script; broad nib for Latin and pointed brush for Hangul. Optique simplifies the shapes of Latin and Hangul whilst preserving the way of writing for each script. It is designed with the intention to achieve harmonization; to let the two scripts appear as one.

Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp on the topic of Hangul type designer Choi Jung-ho (1916-1988). [Google] [More]  ⦿

EunJi Byun

South Korean who grew up in Houston, TX, and studied at MICA (the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD), class of 2016. Designer of the octagonal typeface Crunch (2015) and the modular typeface Coco (2016, FontStruct). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Eunsung Do

During her studies at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Long Island City, NY-based Eunsung Do created Fontissimo (2014, a Peignotian typeface) and Ink (2014, a plump didone typeface). In 2011 and 2012, she studied interior design at Kookmin University in Korea. [Google] [More]  ⦿

EuTai Seo

Seoul-based designer of the round Latin techno font family DL Round (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Evan Adams

Evan Adams graduated with a Computer Science degree from Oregon State University and has been with Google since 2005. He worked on Google Slides, ensuring consistent line-breaking in the face of different browsers, OSs, font files, font-rendering engines, zoom levels and kerning. Adams is currently part of the Google Fonts team, where he focused on discovering the best strategies for delivering Korean fonts. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. Graduate of the TDi program in 2018 at the University of Reading. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fabian Harb

Dinamo is a Swiss type foundry established by Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb after graduation from schools in Zurich, Basel and Amsterdam. Johannes and Fabian are visiting teachers at the Estonian Academy of the Arts, Tallinn and regularly teach at UDK Berlin and University of Applied Sciences, St. Gallen. Their typefaces:

  • Favorit (2014). A basic sans family by Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb. It was extended to Favorit Hangul by Mingoo Yoon in 2019.
  • Grow (2013). An experimental collaborative font family. Many of the members are multilined and even prismatic.
  • The heavy sans typeface Heureka (2009-2013).
  • Pareto (2016). Western style typefaces.
  • In 2019, Johannes Breyer, Fabian Harb and Erkin Karamemet released Whyte and Whyte Inktrap at Dinamo.
  • ABC Maxi (2020, Dinamo). An experimental hipster-inspired gemetric sans family designed by Dinamo (Johannes Breyer and Fabian Harb) and Andree Paat).
  • In 2020, Fabian Harb and Seb McLauchlan co-designed the extensive grotesque family Marfa at Dinamo. Marfa contains a monospaced subfamily, and comes with two variable fonts.
  • Custom typefaces for Kunsthalle Zurich (CH), Warp Records (UK), Elton John (US), Yale Architecture (US), Manifesta 11 (CH), Harvard Graduate School of Design (US), Universal Music (GER), IBA Thüringen (GER), Festival B:om (KR), Gagosian Gallery (US), Planet Mu/Knives (GER/UK), LayTheme (GER) or the German, Estonian and Cyprus Pavillions at the 55th and 56th Venice Biennale.
  • ABC Social done with the Dinamo team in 2021 as a retail version of a custom typeface designed by Fabian Harb and Tina Gabriel for the Australian periodical The Monthly in 2017. Harb writes: Dinamo's co-founder Fabian Harb himself first penned ABC Social as the custom display font for The Monthly, Australia's left leaning independent periodical covering politics, society, and culture. Over many years and many time zones, our super team has now extended it in all directions and for widespread release: Malte Bentzen worked on the very light styles, Fabiola Mejía on its monospaced family, Wei Huang on the regular and bold styles, Erkin Karamemet on Italics, with Rob Janes completing the mastering and production work.

Johannes Breyer. Fabian Harb. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fax
[Sungeun Lee]

Sungeun Lee (Korea) started the Fax project in 2017. For its identity, he designed a Futura-inspired geometric sans typeface, Fax Sans (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

figfonts-cjk 2.2-3

Chinese-Japanese-Korean fonts for figlet, a GNU Linux program by Francesco Tapparo. "Figlet is a program that creates large characters out of ordinary screen characters. It can create characters in many different styles and can kern and "smush" these characters together in various ways. Figlet output is generally reminiscent of the sort of "signatures" many people like to put at the end of e-mail and Usenet messages. " Fonts included: Fang Song Ti, Song Ti, CNS, Jiskan 16, Hanglg16, Kanglm16. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Finder

Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontchu.com

Vietnamese site. It has an archive of Vietnamese, Korean, Latin, Chinese and Japanese fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Fontrix

Korean foundry. Some of its fonts made in 2005: RixDokdo, RixErasergB, RixErasergL, RixErasergM, RixErasermB, RixErasermL, RixErasermM, RixGrimmB, RixGrimmL, RixGrimmM, RixHeadB, RixHeadEB, RixHeadL, RixHeadM, RixJGoB, RixJGoL, RixJGoM, RixJJanguB, RixJJanguL, RixJJanguM, RixPark01, RixPark02, RixPark03, RixVitaB, RixVitaL, RixVitaM. At Google Fonts, we find the handcrafted Latin / Hangul typeface Dokdo (2005-2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

FREELANG Fuentes

Spanish language site for various non-Latin language fonts. A sampling: Afus Deg Wfus 2 (for Berber), AlKatib1 (2001, an Arabic typeface by Naseem Amjad), Albanian, Alice_0 (Lao typeface by by Ngakham Southichack), LAOMAY_5 CHAREUNSILP (Lao typeface by by Soupasith Bouahom), Arial AMU (1999, Armenian typeface by Ruben Tarumian), BaltFrutigerLight, BaltHelveticaMedium, BaltNewCenturySchoolbookMedium, BaltOptimaMedium, BaltTiffanyMedium, BaltUniversityMedium, CarloAtor (1997, Arabic family by Timm Erickson, Summer Institute of Linguistics), Caligraf-W, Ciula (1996, a Romanian typeface by Paul Hodor), Cursiv (Romanian), AnlongvillKhek, GabrialAtor (another Arab family by Timm Erickson), Gin, Greek (1993, by Peter J. Gentry&Andrew M. Fountain), HandSign (1993, Sam Wang), HFMassisShantNUnicode (1990-1994, an Armenian unicode typeface by BYTEC Computers and Massis Graphics), HONGKAD (1994, a family by Dr. Hongkad Souvannavong), IsmarBold, IsmarLight, Lakshmi, X000000A (1994, a lao typeface by Sith Bouahom), LAOMAY_2-CHAREUNSILP, Alice3Medium, Alice0Medium, Langagedessignes (1998, by Philippe and François Blondel), NorKirk (1997, a great Armenian typeface by Ruben Tarumian), NovaTempo (for Esperanto), Pazmaveb (for Armenian), ILPRumanianB100 (1996, by Charles J. Coker), Saysettha-Lao, Saysettha-LaoBold, SenzorgaAnhok, Timok, Tribuno, Turn-W, TimesUnicode, ArialAMU, PoliceTypeAPI (for Armenian), Cieszyn-Regular, PoojaNormal, Shibolet (1995, Hebrew), Shree-Ass-0552 (2000, by Modular InfoTech), Tudor-Semi-Lite, Webdunia, TimesNRCzech, TNRLiboriusVII (2001, a fully accented Times typeface by Libor Sztemon), GreatMoravia (2001 Libor Sztemon, Czechia), Johaansi-ye-Peyravi (2001, a full accent blackletter typeface by Libor Sztemon, Czechia), TimesNREuskaraEuransiEsperanto (2001, Libor Sztemon). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ga Eun Ju

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a watercolor set of letters and numbers in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gahee Park

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Big Round (a techno typeface by Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Gain Kim

Sinsa Dong, Korea-based designer of the brush Hangul typeface Moonlight (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

GakuSoft

GakuSoft markets KingKanji, a free Japanese flashcard program for Windows.a Included are free Japanese, Chinese and Hangul fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gang Suyeon

Korean designer of the intestine-themed Latin font Greedy Organs (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Germain Nils

Seoul-based designer of the Hangul font Natura (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Goldtrone
[Jeff Lee]

Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada-based designer (b. South Korea) of the free handcrafted display typeface Playertip (2016), which was developed during his studies at British Columbia Institue of Technology. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Goodfont

Korean font vendor. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Gorae Font
[Onsoo]

Korean type foundry, est. 2017, by "Onsoo", an illustrator and character designer. In 2017, he published the comic book or children's book typeface GR Onsoo Script. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Grida
[Kim Dong Kwan]

South Korean type foundry. In 2019, Grida published the 16-style humanist sans typeface family Conamore. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

gs-cjk

The package distributed in this site provides the patches for gs6.50 to handle CJK (Traditional/Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean) TrueType fonts as CID-keyed fonts and some improvements upon CID-keyed font handler in gs6.50. We also aim to add our results to the original Aladdin/Artifex ghostscript. The developers are Toshiya Suzuki, Masatake Yamato, Taiji Yamada, Hideyuki Suzuki. [Google] [More]  ⦿

GT Foundry
[Michael Green]

GT Foundry is run by Michael Green, an English designer in Seoul, Korea. In 2011, he created a custom typeface for the Southwark Community Fair. [Google] [More]  ⦿

GulimChe

GulimChe by HanYang System is a complete Korean truetype font. See also here and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Guyeon Pyo
[Zeniac]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ha Jihye

Korean designer of the blackboard bold typeface Boseog (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haansoft

Makers of the Hangul fonts Haansoft Dotum and Haansoft Batang. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Haerin Lee
[Heummdesign]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Han Bit

Seoul-based graphic designer. In 2008, he designed Plamodel (LED font), Layer (experimental font), and Piece (octagonal and minimalist). His type designs in 2009 include Glasses (letters using frames of glasses).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Han Korean Kit

Free Han font for the Mac. Plus some commercial fonts. By HanSoft. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hangul

The Korean alphabet is called Hangul or Hangeul. Each letter in Hangeul indicates an individual sound or phoneme. Hangeul is an alphabet system proposed by King Sejong in 1443 during the Joseon dynasty---it was initially called Hunminjeongeum ("the right sound to teach the people"). King Sejong tried to make an alphabet that matched the structure of Korean, and was easy to learn and write. In the end, there were 28 letters (11 vowels and 17 consonants). Useless letters were deleted and useful ones were added, resulting in 40 letters (21 vowels and 19 consonants). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HANGUL

Links to Korean fonts for the PC. The story is that Hanme is purely commercial, while NJStar and Unionway have shareware versions of their Hangul fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hangul Fonts on the Net

Hojin Gil's links to free Hangul Mac fonts on the net. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hangul Mizi fonts

Free Hangul X fonts made by Mizi Research (Korea). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HanYang Information and Communication

Korean foundry, est. 1990, originally called HanYang System. Known for their well-known free fonts Gulim and Gulim-Che. Download page. Some of their fonts are downloadable here: HanYang (1994), HYHaeSo-Medium (1995), HYSeNse-Bold (1995), H2wulM (1995), H2wulL (1995), H2wulB (1995), H2wulM (1995). Here, one finds HYShortSamul-Medium, HYTaJa-Light, HYShortSamul-Medium, and H2cysM. And here we have HYSooN-MyeongJo, HYBackSong-Bold, HYMokPan-Bold, HYPillGi-Light, HYPosT-Light, H2cysM, HYBuDle-Medium, HYLongSamul-Medium, HYSeNse-Light, HYTaJa-Bold, HYYeatGul-Medium, HYYeaSo-Medium (1995).

Pick up a free copy of the Latin / Hangul sans typeface Gothix A1 (2018) at Open Font Library. For commercial licenses, see the HY Gothic series on their web site.

They designed custom fonts for Korea Xerox, Korea Broadcasting System (KBS: subtitles), Sindoriko LBP Co., Ltd., Dacom Fax Service, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Microsoft Win95 Basic Fonts Supply, Samsung HP LBP, Yangjae System Co., Ltd., Ilju System Co., Samsung Electronics Co., and PS Print Tech PS. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hanzi Bitmap Font (HBF) File Format version 1.1

Specs. "In a bitmap font for Chinese or a number of other languages, each character takes up the same amount of space, so such fonts are often provided as binary files containing only bitmaps. An HBF file is a human-readable text file describing a font of this type, and thus providing a uniform interface. " [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hare Gon

Japanese commercial foundry related to Jikji Soft, Hanyang Systems and Yoon Design. Fonts:

  • From Jikji Soft (Korean): KRJBatang120, KRJBatang125, KRJBatang130, KRJBatang140, KRJBatang150, KRJBatang210, KRJBatang220, KRJHangSer, KRJSongMyung, KRJDotum110, KRJDotum130, KRJDotum135, KRJDotum140, KRJDotum150, KRJDotum230, KRJDokDo, KRJFreeTourM, KRJGMokPan, KRJJunEum, KRJKidM, KRJMokPan, KRJMyungMoon, KRJNonSquare2M, KRJNonSquareM, KRJORyoun, KRJRGra, KRJSatGat, KRJSeVal, KRJSunFlowerM, KRJTimeMachineM, KRJWallin.
  • From Hanyang Information&Communications Co: KRHYMokPTrace-Bold, KRHYMokPTrace-ExtraBold, KRHYMokPTrace-Medium, KRHYNamu-Bold, KRHYNamu-Light, KRHYNamu-Medium, KRHYPillGi-Light, KRHYPMokGak-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Bold, KRHYPMokPan-Light, KRHYPop-Bold, KRHYPop-Light, KRHYPop-Medium, KRHYPost-Bold, KRHYPost-Light, KRHYPost-Medium, KRHYSam-Bold, KRHYSam-Light, KRHYSam-Medium, KRHYSan-Bold, KRHYSan-Light, KRHYSan-Medium, KRHYSeNse-Bold, KRHYSeNse-Light, KRHYSinGraPhic-Medium, KRHYTaJa-Bold, KRHYTaJa-Light, KRHYTaJa-Medium, KRHYTaJaFull-Bold, KRHYTaJaFull-Light, KRHYTaJaFull-Medium, KRHYTeBack-Bold, KRHYYeaSo-Medium, KRHYYeaSol-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Bold, KRHYYeatGul-Medium, KRHYYoyo-Bold, KRHYYoyo-Light, KRHYYoyo-Medium, KRHYBackSong-Bold, KRHYBada-Bold, KRHYBada-Light, KRHYBada-Medium, KRHYBaram-Bold, KRHYBaram-Light, KRHYBaram-Medium, KRHYBuDle-Medium, KRHYBuwhaL-Bold, KRHYBuwhaL-Light, KRHYBuwhaL-Medium, KRHYChunjyin-A, KRHYChunjyin-B, KRHYCrystal-Bold, KRHYCrystal-Light, KRHYCrystal-Medium, KRHYCSWheysang-Bold, KRHYCSWheysang-ExtraBold, KRHYCSWheysang-Medium, KRHYDongNyuk-Bold, KRHYDongNyuk-Light, KRHYDongNyuk-Medium, KRHYGraPhic-Bold, KRHYGraPhic-Medium, KRHYHaeSo-Medium, KRHYInyoen-Bold, KRHYInyoen-Light, KRHYInyoen-Medium, KRHYKang-Bold, KRHYKang-Light, KRHYKang-Medium, KRHYKumgangsan-Bold, KRHYKumgangsan-ExtraBold, KRHYKumgangsan-Light, KRHYKumgangsan-Medium, KRHYMokGak-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Bold, KRHYMokPan-Light, KRHYGungSo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYMyeongJo-ExtraBold, KRHYMyeongJo-Light, KRHYMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYMyeongJo-Ultra, KRHYSinMun-MyeongJo, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Bold, KRHYSinMyeongJo-Medium, KRHYSooN-MyeongJo, KRHYGoThic-Bold, KRHYGoThic-ExtraBold, KRHYGoThic-Light, KRHYGoThic-Medium, KRHYHeadLine-Bold, KRHYHeadLine-Medium, KRHYKHeadLine-Bold, KRHYKHeadLine-Medium, KRHYRGoThic-Bold, KRHYRGoThic-Medium, KRHYSuPungSun-Bold, KRHYSuPungSun-ExtraBold, KRHYSuPungSun-Light, KRHYSuPungSun-Medium, KRHYTeGoThic-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-Bold, KRHYWulNunDo-ExtraBold, KRHYWulNunDo-Light, KRHYWulNunDo-Medium.
  • From Yoon Design: KRYD-Mincho110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160; KRYD-Gothic110, 120, 130, 140, 150, 160, 220, 230, 240, 250; KRYD-Yoon [B, M, L, UL]; KRYD-GamenB, KRYD-GamenM, KRYD-GamenL, KRYD-HawheB, KRYD-HawheM, KRYD-HawheL, KRYD-TogeB, KRYD-TogeM, KRYD-TogeL, KRYD-SapphireB, KRYD-SapphireM, KRYD-SapphireL, KRYD-KaisouB, KRYD-KaisouM, KRYD-KaisouL, KRYD-ChildB, KRYD-ChildM, KRYD-ChildL, KRYD-GyosonB, KRYD-GyosonM, KRYD-GyosonL, KRYD-TonboB, KRYD-TonboM, KRYD-TonboL, KRYD-KasasagiB, KRYD-KasasagiM, KRYD-KasasagiL, KRYD-DirtyB, KRYD-DirtyM, KRYD-DirtyL, KRYD-PanchiGo, KRYD-PanchiMin, KRYD-SaleB, KRYD-SaleM, KRYD-SaleL, KRYD-KakkouB, KRYD-KakkouM, KRYD-KakkouL, KRYD-KaiB, KRYD-KaiM, KRYD-KaiL, KRYD-YamabikoB, KRYD-YamabikoM, KRYD-YamabikoL, KRYD-ShosetsuB, KRYD-ShosetsuM, KRYD-ShosetsuL.
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Harin Namgung
[Toodac Studio]

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Hayeon Go

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the Latin typeface Cubism (2015) and the Hangul typeface Pangu (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HaYoung Jeong

Seoul, Korea-based designer of striped Latin deco typeface (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

HB Font
[Main-jae Oh]

Korean designer of Haru (2018), a squarish techno typeface family with several choices of textures, and Futo Sans (2018), a monoline techno sans. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hee Jun Kim
[Adaylife]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hee So Jeon

Anyang, Korea-based designer of the Hangul text typeface Sandoll Myungjo (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heejin Choi

In 2017, Jeonghee Shin and Heejin Choi designed the Latin / Hangul font family Happy Myeongjo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hein J

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the Latin sans typeface Clovelly (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Heummdesign
[Haerin Lee]

Heummdesign is a Seoul, South Korea-based type foundry (according to Dafont) or a North Korean type design cooperative (according to MyFonts), started in 2009. By 2020, they produced well over a hundred typefaces for Latin, Greek, Cyrillic and Hangul. Haerin Lee appears to be the main person but that remains unclear.

Haerin Lee designed HU Cookie (2020, with Rumi Kim and ByoungHeon Park), HU Bubble (2020, with SangHyeon Park), HU Hand Serif (2020: with Yehyeong Lee and ByoungHeon Park), HU Wind Sans (2020: a 15-style sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and ByoungHeon Park) and HU The Game (2020, with ByoungHeon Park), a typeface with mini-spurs and odd terminals that is designed for display.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Battery (a sci-fi typeface by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and Yehyeong Lee), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Green Tea (with Yehyeong Lee), HU Ketchup (with Yehyeong Lee: an informal supermarket typeface for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hijoju

Creator of the Korean calligraphic simulation typeface Korean Calligraphy (2009-2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hilti

A corporate URW studio sans family published in 2009. The 6-font family sells for over 5000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hingik

Hangul archive. The fonts: Gaeul, Pilgi1, SHeadG, SeUtum, YeopseoR-HM, dabb. [Google] [More]  ⦿

H.J.Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the neurotic scribbly Latin script typeface Beat (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

hmhm.net

Free Korean fonts made in 2005-2006: TSThgrgl, aritaM, aritaSB. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hohyeon Son

Seoul-based designer who created the caps typeface Music Instrument Font (2012). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hong Junwoong

Seongnam-dong, Korea-based designer of the Latin display typeface Scarlet (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hong Koon

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Paperfolding (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hoon Kim
[Why Not Smile LLC]

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Ho-Seok Ee

Korean designer in 2006 of Bandal, Bangwool, EunBom, Eunjin, EunjinNakseo, Guseul, HaN-mfs, aritaM, aritaM, aritaSB, aritaSB. [Google] [More]  ⦿

HyangHan Joo

Seoul, Korea-based designer of an all caps Latin color typeface in 2017 during his studies at Konkuk University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyangmin Shin

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of an outlined Hangul font in 2016. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyee Gun

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the handcrafted typefaces Shirahoshi (2019) and Chicken (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyesun Chae

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the design of the Hangul typefaces Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim), BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang), and BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyewon Han

Type specialist at Korea's Sandoll type foundry. In his talk at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp, Hyewon introduced Sandoll's Jeongche typeface (together with Chorong Kim): Sandoll shows an example of expanding the typographic environment (of Hangul) by introducing the JeongChe typeface project, the font family that reflects the classification of ages, started in early 2017. It raises questions about the current Korean font paradigm that has been fixed firmly for a long time, and gives a proposal for a brand-new standard style to make the printing environment much richer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyo-hyun Kim

Korean font archive with about 50 fonts. Also some Latin fonts. See also here, here, and here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hypertype

Hypertype is type design studio specializing in Latin and Hangul scripts. Founded by Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg in 2020, it is located in Berlin.

Typefaces from 2020 include Neutronic and Neutronic Hangul, which are proportional descendants of Mark Frömberg's earlier monospaced typeface, Gintronic.

Typefaces from 2021: Hahmlet (free at Google Fonts).

Future Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyun Cho

From the FontFont site: Hyun Cho is an art director in Seoul, South Korea. He studied graphic design at the Yale University School of Art and obtained a BFA in visual communication design at the Kyung Won University. He has won several design awards in the US, Korea and Germany. The work on his first FontFont typeface FF Tronic was done together with his friend Min Choi, also a Korean graphic designer.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Hyun Guk Ryu

Born in Republic of Korea, Hyun Guk Ryu obtained a Ph.D. at National Kyushu Institute of Technology Graduate School of Design. Presently, he teaches type design and design history at National University Corporation Tsukuba University of Technology Faculty of Industrial. His professional studies are focused in typography and design history of Korean (Haeseo Style), Chinese (Ming Style), and the manufacturing of Latin alphabets for the multilingual typesetting in 19th century Japan and China.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: A study of collision among and the coexistence of different Korean typeface designs. At ATypI 2011 in Reykjavik, Hyun Guk Ryu spoke about the history of Hangul type design. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Directionality in Korean type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyun Kyu Seo

Columbus, NJ-based creator of the squarish typeface Operator (2012). He also created Hangul Neue (2012, experimental Hangul font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyunseok Choi

Daegu, South Korea-based designer of the free modular Latin typeface Monopoly (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Hyun-Seung Lee

Type designer from Seoul, Korea. He started as a participant at the Koren typefoundry S-Core, and set up his own foundry, Cretype, in 2017. At S-Core, he published the Latin / Hangul typefaces Core Gaon, Core Bori, Core Narae (hand-printed), the shadow outline typeface Core Bandi (2012) and Core Dodam (squarish, with Dae-Hoon Hahm) in 2011. With Min Joo Ham, he created Core Label (2012). Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the programmers' typeface Eco Coding (2012) and the huge Core Sans, Core Sans G (geometric), Core Sans M and Core Sans N, Core Sans NR, and Core Sans N SC families (supported codepages are MS Windows 1252 Latin1, MS Windows 949 Korean (Hangul) consisting of 11,172 letters and KS Symbols (Korean Symbols)).

In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

In 2014, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham co-designed Core Sans D, Core Sans A, Core Rhino, Core Narae Pro (a Comic Sans alternative) and Core Deco (a 14-style art deco family). Core Escher (A and B) (2014) is a typeface family with impossible optical illusions, created by Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm. Core Paint (2014) is a grungy paint-splatter typeface family by Dong-Kwan Kim, Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm.

In 2015, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim co-designed the grotesque typeface family Core Sans E. The rounded versions of the Core Sans E, D and G families were designed in 2015 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim under the names Core Sans ES, Core Sans DS, and Core Sans GS. Still in 2015, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim added the soft and rounded Core Sans R and Core Sans B to the S-Core Sans series. In 2016, they added the rounded small x-height family Core Sans BR and the geometric sans family Core Sans C. The rounded version of Core Sans A, called Core Sans AR was designed in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm. The rounded version of Care Sans C, called Core Sans CR, was designed in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm, and Dong-Kwan Kim. The neutral Core Serif N was added in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim.

In 2017, Hyun-Seung Lee published the Hangul / Latin font Core Gothic D, the great 9-weight sans workhorse family Core Gothic E, the 72-style modern sans serif typeface family Artico, Artico Soft, Behance link.

Typefaces from 2017: Core Gothic N (a large Korean / Latin workhorse sans), Crepes (25 fonts for layering and textures), Geon Soft, Geon (an organic sans family with 54 fonts), Segaon, Segaon Soft, Caros (a clean geometric sans), Caros Soft, Coben (futuristic, rounded).

Typefaces from 2018: Jiho (an organic monoline sans), Jiho Soft.

Typefaces from 2020: At Rojotype, Hyunseung Lee released William Sans, an eight-weight sans serif family.

YWFT link. Behance link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

I Hideok

Korean type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

IBM Plex
[Mike Abbink]

A large free font family created by Mike Abbink and Bold Monday (Paul van der Laan and Pieter van Rosmalen) for IBM's new corporate identity in 2017. It includes the IBM Plex Sans, IBM Plex Serif, IBM Plex Sans Variable, and IBM Plex Mono subfamilies. Aneliza (2018) is a fork that has a single storey g in the italics.

A later modification / fork is Perplexed by Peter Hull in 2018.

Github link. IBM link. Direct download at Github. CTAN link. Local download. IBM Plex Mono at Google Fonts. IBM Plex Sans at Google Fonts. IBM Plex Sans Condensed at Google Fonts. IBM Plex Serif at Google Fonts. CTAN link for TeX support.

IBM Plex won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018.

In 2021, Google Fonts added various multilingual versions of IBM PLex: IBM Plex Sans Devanagari (by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Erin McLaughlin), IBM Plex Sans Arabic (by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wael Morcos, Khajak Apelian), IBM Plex Sans Hebrew (by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Yanek Iontef), IBM Plex Sans KR (by Mike Abbink; Paul van der Laan; Pieter van Rosmalen; Wujin Sim; Chorong Kim; Dohee Lee), IBM Plex Sans Thai (by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Ben Mitchell, Mark Frömberg), IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped (by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Ben Mitchell, Mark Frömberg).

Google Fonts link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Im Jaegwang

Aka Ricky. Korean designer of the thin Latin display typeface Cotyledon (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

IMUG: The International Macintosh Users Group

"A new generation of Asian language software for Windows. RichWin is an add-on software that fits between Non-Chinese Windows and other Windows applications, enabling users to process the two-byte languages Chinese, Japanese and Korean on non-Chinese Windows and on other platforms. It provides 30 different Chinese fonts." For more info, email Bruce Liu. [Google] [More]  ⦿

In Cheol Hwang

Born in 1985 in South Korea, In Cheol Hwang is a product and industrial designer in Busan, South Korea. Creator of Pop-Up (2010), an experimental face.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Index of --thee--font--han

About 12 Hangul TrueType fonts: DABB, GAEUL, HEAD, HMKMYEOP, JEON, PILGI1, POST, SAMMUL, SEUTUM, SGRP, SHEADG, SUMJ. [Google] [More]  ⦿

indifont homepage

Homepage about indifont, a Korean font family compliant with many standards such as ISO-2022, ISO-10646, KSC-5601, KSC-5657. [Google] [More]  ⦿

inha.ac.kr

About ten Korean truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Irin Kim

Irin Kim is a visual designer on the Material Design team at Google, based in New York City. She has focused on developing design systems and visual identities, and worked on variable fonts in Google Fonts. Kim recently led a project to add more Korean fonts to the Google Fonts library. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J. Choi

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a Hangul typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J. Hun Lee

Student at Han Kyong National University in 2014. Suwon, Korea-based designer of the triangulated typeface Beer Rock (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

J. Jeong

Illustrator in Busan, South Korea. In 2012, she created an ornamental caps alphabet.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

j4p4n

Creator of Ghetto Dot Alphahira (2010, FontStruct), a dot matrix typeface for Latin and hiragana. Funki Fuji (2010, FontStruct) is a starred outline typeface for Latin and hiragana. Kool Korean (2011, FontStruct) mixes Latin and Korean. Ukikusa (2013) is a hand-drawn hiragan font. In 2014, he published Pirate Power (a grungy blackletter typeface). In 2015, he added Rnd Symbz (dingbats) and Sloppy Koetsu (handwriting). In 2017, he designed DeGerm LoCase (an irregular blackletter), Tracedots, CmpHand, Gizagiza and Lindbergh Baby (ransom note font). In 2020, he added Oddballz. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaehong Park

Jaehong is a part-time typography professor at Sejong University. From 2008 until 2012, she was part-time typography professor at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, Kookmin University, Hongik University, Inha University, and Seoul Digital University. She is a doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Craft and Design, Graduate School of Seoul National University, and received her M.A. and B.A. from the same place.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: A study of punctuation marks' history in Hanguel. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaehyun Keum

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces:

  • Do Hyeon (2015, Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae at Sandoll)
  • BM Hanna 11yrs old (Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae; Minjung Kim)
  • Jua (2014: Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae)
  • Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim)
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Jae-joon Han

Korean type designer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jaemin Lee

Korean designer with Hwayoung Lee of the wavy (glitch style) typeface Punch Drunk (2012). Creator of a Hangul custom typeface for the band Nine and the Numbers (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jahng Hyoung Joon

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a geometric solid typeface in 2017, and a great set of human pictograms in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

James Zachman

James Zachman (Chicago, IL) created the marker typeface Natalie (2012), which is sufficiently well-mannered for uses on architectural plans and technical or semi-official presentations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jang Hyunsue

Cardiff, Wales-based designer and illustrator who created the rhombic typeface Diamonds (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jangmi Yeo

Designer based in Buan, South Korea. In 2016, she created an outlined Latin typeface for a school project at Dongseo University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jee Sook Kim

Jee Sook Kim (Pasadena, CA, but born in Seoul, Korea) writes about his typeface Jee Sans (2012): Jee Sans is a medium weight sans serif typeface that has cursive qualities.

Behance link. He designed a calligraphic faux logo for the 19th century composer Donizetti, and shows in images how Doyald Young guided him in that design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeff Kichang Kim
[Rojotype (was: Kikichi Factory)]

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Jeff Lee
[Goldtrone]

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Jeon Heewon

South Korean designer of Glamorous Type (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeong Daye

Busan, Korea-based designer of a children's display typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeong Hwan Kim
[Baekmuk (was: Hwan Design)]

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Jeong Ju Moon

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the stamp pictograms Mioon for the World Script Institute (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeonghee Shin

In 2017, Jeonghee Shin and Heejin Choi designed the Latin / Hangul font family Happy Myeongjo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeong-Hwan Yoon

In 2015-2016, Yong-Rak Park, Jeong-Hwan Yoon and Sang-Min Lee designed the huge programming font D2Coding for NHN. It covers Latin, Hangul, Cyrillic and simplified Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeongmin Kwon

Korean designer of Ficta (2014), a humanist Latin, Greek and Hangul text typeface developed during Jeongmin's studies towards a Masters Degree in Type Design at the University of Reading in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jeremy Young

During his studies at Hongik University, Jermy Young (Seoul, Korea) designed a modulat Hangul typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jerremy Dohyun Kim

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the handcrafted typeface Oblique (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jewon Yewon

Identity designer in Seoul, Korea, who created an elegant Latin display typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ji Byul Lee

Ji Byul Lee was born in Korea in 1971. He created Univers Revolved by taking the capitals of the alphabet, rotating them, and tilting the result. A true 3-d typeface. Free download. Univers Revolved is also a book, published by Harry N. Abrams in 2004. This typeface was done for Neo2 Magazine. Alternate URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ji Seo

Korean graphic designer based in New York City. Creator of the experimental Hangul typeface Semo Nemo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jie Yun Roe

Graduate of Seoul Women's University (2003), School of Visual Arts (New York, 2007: BFA) and Parsons The New School of Design (New York, 2011: MFA). She designed an unnamed display typeface in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jieun Yang

Jieuin Yang (Seoul, Korea) designed the Latin optical illusion font Inception and Paceting (a typeface family for an international gem fair) in 2013. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihee Lee

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a Hangul typeface in 2017, at Kaywon University of Art & Design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihee Min

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces:

  • Do Hyeon (2015, Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae at Sandoll)
  • BM Hanna 11yrs old (Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae; Minjung Kim)
  • Jua (2014: Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae)
  • Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim)
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiheon Oh

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the Latin display typefaces Gori (2016), Daehakro (2016) and Link (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihye Lee

Daejeon, South Korea-based designer of an unnamed ornamental Latin typeface in 2013.

At Heumm Design, Jihye Lee published HU Flat White (2021; a tuxedoed sans by Rumi Kim and Jihye Lee), HU Life Style (2021, a six-style display sans by Rumi Kim, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee) and HU Crayon Doodles (2021, by SangHyeon Park, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jihyeon Jamie Choi

During her studies in Seoul, Korea, Jihyeon Jamie Choi designed Eastern Gothic (2016, an oriental simulation typeface) and Blackberry (2016, an experimental Hangul typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihyun Bang

Designer from Seoul, who created a Latin typeface called Winter in Basel (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jihyun Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of several experimental typefaces that are derived from or inspired by Futura. These include Pastra, New Futura and Presentra. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiin Park

Korean type designer, who won an award at Granshan 2016 for Sandoll Late Spring (together with Moa Ku). Jiin Park is associated with Sandoll Communications Inc. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jikji Soft

Korean type foundry. Its typefaces include KRJBatang120, KRJBatang125, KRJBatang130, KRJBatang140, KRJBatang150, KRJBatang210, KRJBatang220, KRJHangSer, KRJSongMyung, KRJDotum110, KRJDotum130, KRJDotum135, KRJDotum140, KRJDotum150, KRJDotum230, KRJDokDo, KRJFreeTourM, KRJGMokPan, KRJJunEum, KRJKidM, KRJMokPan, KRJMyungMoon, KRJNonSquare2M, KRJNonSquareM, KRJORyoun, KRJRGra, KRJSatGat, KRJSeVal, KRJSunFlowerM, KRJTimeMachineM, KRJWallin.

In 2018, they published the free handcrafted Latin / Hangul typeface at Google Fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jin Jin

At Kaywon University, Seoul, Korea-based Jin Jin designed the screen emulation typeface Subject in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jin Kyeong

Graphic designer in Sunaedong, Korea, who combined Baskerville and blackletter to make Blaskerville (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jin Kyung Park

Type designer at Sandoll Communications in Seoul, Korea. Designer of the Hangul fonts Hitec (2016), Hyundai Marine (2016), Taegeukdang (Latin, hangul and chinese), SBS (2016), MMCA (2016, for the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul), Samsung (2016), and Daum Kakao (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jinhee Kim

Korean type designer. Graduate of the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Creator of an architectural column typefaces called Erechtheum (2012).

He was part of a Sandoll team that designed Typotheque's Greta Sans Korean (together with Yejin We, under the supervision of Chorong Kim).

At Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), Jinhee participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jinhong Jeon

Designer of the Latin / Korean headline typeface HY Kak Headline (1996-2011, Adobe). This typeface has zero chance of ever being sold in Belgium or The Netherlands. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jinsoo Seo

In 2017, Korean graphic designers and art directors Jiwon Kim and Jinsoo Seo set up the type foundry Jiwon & Jinsoo. In 2017, they published the multiline and inline typeface Intersection. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jinwoong Seo

Seoul-based designer of the squarish Hangul font Barabom (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jisoo Li

Korean designer located in Singapore, who created the 3d Latin typeface Urban Blocks (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jisun Kim

South Korean designer of the corporate Hangul font XtvN (2019). In 2018, he art directed the font Happy Myeongjo, which was designed by Jeonghee Shin and Heejin Choi. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiu Seo

Visual designer in Seoul. Creator of Cigarette Font (2012, experimental) and Metro Font (2012, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiwon and Jinsoo
[Jiwon Kim]

In 2017, Korean graphic designers and art directors Jiwon Kim and Jinsoo Seo set up the type foundry Jiwon & Jinsoo. In 2017, they published the multiline and inline typeface Intersection. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jiwon Hyeon

Seoul-based designer of a few typographic portraits in 2014. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiwon Kim
[Jiwon and Jinsoo]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Jiwon Lee

Assistant professor at Kokmin University in Seoul, Korea. In 2010, he designed the award-winning Hangul typeface Barun Jiwon Book. In 2016, he oversaw the development of the Gabia x Kookmin digital font, which was designed by Donghoon Han, Solmee Jung and Kihoon Lee. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jiwon Yu

After graduating from Seoul National University's Department of Visual Communication Design, Jiwon Yu worked as a book designer at Minumsa Publishing Group. She went on to study typography at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Germany. After graduation, she returned to Korea and worked as a senior researcher at Sandoll Communications. She wrote and designed the specimens of the Hangul typefaces in the Sandoll Neo Series. Currently she is a typographer and a research professor at Hongik University in Korea. Jiwon occasionally writes columns on typography and classical music.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Talnemo module, as an equivalent of italics in Hangul typesetting. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ji-young Jeon

During her studies at Ewha Womens University in Seoul, Korea, Ji-young Jeon created a number of Latin fonts around the theme of Chang-sai, or Korean (octagonal, rhombic) door patterns. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jo Hyun Wang

Seoul, Korea-based designer of an intricate and detailed 3d all caps font (2017), where one can ask the question: Where does a typeface end and art begin?. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joe Burke

Graphic designer in Manchester, UK, who created the hexagonal typeface Metabolist in 2014. He explains: Typeface Design based upon an architectural movement in Japan during the 1960's called Metabolism. It attempted to merge architectural megastructures with ideas of biological and organic growth. One famous example of this is the Nakagin Capsule Tower by Kisho Kurokawa (1972, Tokyo).

Baurean (2015, "Braun + Korean") is influenced by simple Hangul text forms and by the compass-and-ruler Braun logo designed by Wolfgang Schmittel (1952). [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Bakhan

Seoul-based designer of Talking Font (2013, squarish and modular), Adel (2014, avant-garde sans) and an untitled connect-the-dots typeface (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

John Kohji Suguiyama

Page in Korean about Korean language support and fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jong Beom Kim

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the angular text typeface Fjord (2019). In 2020, he designed the fine antiqua typeface Perilla and the Venetian text typeface Arco, which was released as a retail font at Rojotype. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jong-Woo Lee

Graphic designer in Seoul, Korea, b. 1989. In 2013, he received a type design award for the Hangul typeface JWmjo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jooddang

The Korean font Pilgi1 (Qnix Computer Co, 1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joonghyun Cho

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental typeface Force Fields of Typography (2014, Latin). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joonseok Sung

Type designer in Busan, Korea. Creator of the Hangul/Latin typefaces Joon Myung-Jo (2017), Nemo Gothic (2017), Nemo Round (2017) and Universal Design Small Font (2017). In 2020, he released the free Hangul / Latin sports font family Vitro (in Core and Pride sub-styles). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Joowon Lee

Joowon Lee (South Korea) created the corporate branding font Edgen in 2013 for the imaginary elite modeling agency Edgeway as a class project. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jooyeon Kang

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp) and/or Sandol. Jooyeon Kang participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces:

  • BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee)
  • BM Hanna Pro (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang)
  • Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim)
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Joy Park

Seoul, Korea-basedc designer of Mobius Strip (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

jsd.snu.ac.kr

Korean site with 100MB worth of Korean fonts (zipped) and 47MB worth of Latin fonts, in truetype. The Korean fonts include these from Megabrain (Kim Jae Hoon): CiHb, CiHbj, CiHbl, CiHblj, CiHeadR, CiJgt, CiMoonby, CiSmj, CiYoori, CiYoorij. Also included are these fonts from Seoul Systems Company (bad quality): MBatang, MDotum, MGungHeulim, MGungJeong, MHunmin, MJemokBatang, MJemokGothic, MSugiHeulim, MSugiJeong. From Human Computers, Ahn, MoeumTXB-HM, JasuR-HM, JasuXB-HM. From Tae System&Typefaces, TSTjkvr, TSTPenC, TSTNamr. Type 1 versions are here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jua Kim

As a student, Bangbae-dong, Korea-based Jua Kim designed the connect-the-dots typeface Stella (2017) and a few other typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juhee Tae

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp) and/or Sandoll. Juhee participated in the design of the Hangul typefaces Jua (2014: Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae), Do Hyeon (2015, Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae at Sandoll) and BM Hanna 11yrs old (Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae; Minjung Kim). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jumyoung Lee

Graphic designer in New York City. He designed these typefaces:

  • Reptile (2020). display serif.
  • Ju+ (2019). A sans family that evolved from his earlier typeface, Ju Sans (2018).
  • Morfos (2019). A custom sans done for the South Lorean mattress company Morfos.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

June Hyeong Lee

Seoul-based creator of the experimental Latin typeface Tridna (2008).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

June Shin

June is a Seoul-born, NYC-based designer who joined Occupant Fonts in 2017 and stayed on for three and a half years. After graduating from Cornell University with a BA in Art History, she studied graphic design at Parsons School of Design and later RISD, where she received her master's degree and has taught typography. Her work has been recognized by Type Directors Club, Art Directors Club, Communication Arts, and more. Co-designer with Cyrus Highsmith at Occupant Fonts of the informal typeface Occupant Oldstyle (2021). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jung Hoon Song

Uiwang, Korea-based typographer. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jungho Choi

Korean type designer, 1916-1988. Jungho Choi is considered one of the greatest Korean type designers, and his work is used to teach typeface design in Korean universities. SM Myungjo Std was designed by Jungho Choi (1916-1988) with help from Soonho Kwon in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea. Professor Sangsoo Ahn revised the design for SoftMagic. SM Myungjo Std (Adobe, 1996-2011) was designed to enhance readability, and its stroke structure is optimized for digital reproduction. SM Myungjo Std is commonly used for body text by Korean magazines. He also designed the Hangul typeface SM Gothic in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea, with Soonho Kwon. Adobe's version of SM Gothic is dated 1996-2011. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

JungHoon No
[Xiles]

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Jungyeon Shin

Born in South Korea, Jungyeon Shin studied at Beaux-Arts Brest in France in 2015. There, she designed a Latin marker pen typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Junki Hong

Graduate of California Institute of the Arts (MFA) and Konkuk University (BFA). Valencia, CA-based designer of Rabbit (2018), a typeface with rabbit shoe-themed serifs. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Junseok Yoon

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Se Geom Jeong (2016), a handcrafted brushed Hangul typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ju-seong Park
[Studio Jaso]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Juseong Park

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the design of the Hangul typeface Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Jussi Ahola

During his studies at Kookmin University in South Korea, Tampere, Finland-based Jussi Ahola created the full hangul typeface Jangul (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juyeon Lee

During his studies in Brooklyn, NY, Juyeon Lee (b. Korea) created the circle-based typeface Metamorphous (2013-2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Juyeon Lim

Seoul, Korea-based graphic and type designer. His typefaces include a Hangul typeface (2018) and a Latin text typeface (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

K. Kris Yoo

Kris Yoo was born and raised in Seoul, Korea. She is an interaction designer in Newport Beach, CA.

She created a pictogram font (2012) and as a Peignotian sans called Kris Sans (2012).

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KAIST

Extensive set of X11 and PS fonts. At the same archive, there's another Hangul to PS translator hpscat in /incoming/hangul and /pub/hangul/print. (KAIST archive is mirrored at ftp://under3.kisa.org in the US,ftp://ftp.nuri.net in Korea and ftp://ftp.linguistik.uni-erlangen.de/pub/Hangul in Germany). [Google] [More]  ⦿

KBS Japan

Archive of commercial type 1 fonts for Chinese (DLCHei, DLCSong, DLCKaishu, DLCFangSong, DLCZongYi, DLCWeiBei, GBYen, HeitiCSEG, TankuinEG, HeitiEG), Thai (DBErawan, DBFongNam, DBNarai, DBPradit), Hangul (HYGothic, HYTeGoThic, JCLIGHT, HYMyeongJo), Vietnamese (Vina family), Cyrillic (Vina, Helvetica, Newton), and Arabic (Geezah, Nadeem, LotusTT, Yakoot, DedanAB). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kelvin Kottke

Brooklyn, NY-based designer of Incheon (2015), a fantastic poster typeface that is inspired by Seoul and emulates Hangul, and Retrograde (2014, an astrologically-inspired alphabet). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ken Lunde

Dr. Ken Lunde is Manager of CJKV Type Development at Adobe Systems Incorporated, San Jose, CA. He holds a Ph.D. (1994) in Linguistics from The University of Wisconsin-Madison. He wrote Understanding Japanese Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1993), and CJKV Information Processing (O'Reilly&Associates, 1999). He also wrote CJKV Information Processing: Chinese, Japanese, Korean&Vietnamese Computing (O'Reilly). In 2010, Adobe will release the first genuinely proportional Japanese font, Kazuraki (by Japanese type designer Ryoko Nishizuka), which was developed at Adobe in 2009 under his management.

Ken managed the Source Han Sans project---these are open source fonts released in 2014 by Adobe and Google for Japanese, Chinese and Korean. He also headed the development of Source Han Serif.

In 2018, Ken Lunde and Masataka Hattori co-designed Soukou Mincho (free at Fontsquirrel).

In 2019, he created the experimental variable font Width at Adobe. Github link.

Speaker at ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of The History of Japan's Era Name Square Ligatures, and in particular, the two-kanji square ligatures for the five most recent eras, Reiwa (2019), Heisei (1989), Shouwa, Taishou and Meiji. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kenzo Hamazaki

As a student at Hanyang University, Ansan, Korea-based Kenzo Hamazaki created the free monoline rounded and cursive typeface family Woom (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kerinet

Korean site which has HYHaeSo-Medium (Korean), a broken stick Korean font called Sense, and Hanjabusu (limited character set Chinese). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kichan Ma

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Hanger (2018), a fun display typeface that marries Neil Bold and Horatio. He also designed the programmed ultra-black Hangul / Latin poster typeface Tuem (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kidon Bae
[Tive Inc]

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Kim Bo Huy

Art director in Seoul, who created a bold Hangul display typeface in 2014. He also designed the condensed Latin sans typeface Skinny (2014) and the beveled typeface Project (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Chaeyoon

During his studies in Seoul, Kim Chaeyoon created the outlined geometric typeface Dream Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Dong Kwan
[Grida]

[MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Kim Kyung Joo

Seoul-based designer of the school project font Circus (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Si Nai

Jeonju, South Korea-based creator of The Match (2011), The Tongs (2011), A Needle and Thread (2011; images: i, ii), The Clip (2011), The Fan (2011, a hairline script face---images: i, ii), The Clip (2011, paperclip face), The Safety Pin (2011) and The Straw (2011). Aka Kim baby. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Woori

Korean type designer. TheClassic (jointly developed by Park Yunjung, Choi Eunkyu, Kim Woori and Lee Hyunho) won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kim Yun U

Kim Yun U (Seoul, Korea) created the squarish hHangul font Chun Ji In in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kinam Kauk

Busan, Korea-based designer of an untitled grid-based font in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ko Junghyun

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental typeface Universal Mutation (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Koaunghi Un
[Un-fonts]

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Koaunghi Un
[UnBatang Odal]

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Kokin

Freelance artist and type designer in Japan, b. 1963. He designed many logos such as the Shanghai World Financial Center, Tokyo Station City, Mizuho Financial Group, Nissan Mortors, Odakyu, Fusion Communications, Mitsui Garden Hotels, Natchan! (suntory), Acerola Drink,The Premium Malts (Suntory), and Orangina (Suntory). His typefaces:

  • He digitized TBGM, TGKO-M, TGYU-M at TYPEBANK in 1991-1992.
  • He designed three Japanese fonts for Fontworks.
  • He created one Korean font for Yoon Design.

Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Special meaning of black and white in Japan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Korea Computer Center

Creators in 1998 of the large Korean fonts WKFixd, WKTrChongBong, WKTrGothic, WKWChongbong. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Korean Computing and Tools

Links to Korean fonts and font software. Includes six Type 1 Mac or PC fonts for free download: these are Frank's Breve fonts that allow the transcription of Korean and Japanese according to the systems of McCune-Reischauer and Hepburn. Mainly Mac-oriented page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Korean Dragon Writer True Type Fonts

Software for Hangul, with its own fonts. Allows you to make 3D effects, and do much more. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KORNOVA

Hangul font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

kreonet

About 25 Korean truetype fonts in a 6MB file. Fonts from Qnix Computer, and Tae System and Typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KunHa Lee

Graphic designer at Graphic Gaga Studio in Seoul, Korea. He extended the blackletter typeface Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch to Wilhelm Klingspor Gotisch Hangul (2015).

In 2015, he designed the Latin typeface Steel Cylinder. Behance link. Newer Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

KwangMin Ryu

South Korean creator (b. 1996) of the octagonal typeface Ryu Cutted (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kwangsik Noh

Daejeon, South Korea-based designer of the (Latin) ellipsoidal monoline typeface Round (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyeongsik Kim

Korean graduate of the MATD program at the University of Reading, class of 2019. Kyeongsik's graduation typeface there was the Latin / Hangul / Cyrillic text typeface Material, and was influenced by the transitional (Romain du Roi, Baskerville, and Fournier) era.

In 2021, Kyeongsik graduated from the postgraduate program at ESAD Amiens, France, with a transitional typeface called Repurika, which is based on Times. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyuhyung Cho

Korean creator of the pictograph font Creatures (2011). Kyuhyung Cho has a BFA in graphic design from Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, and an MFA in storytelling from Konstfack, Stockholm, Sweden. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyungjin Kim

Designer of the modular Latin typeface Gonggoo (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyung-Seok Kwon

Korean type designer at the Korean type foundry Sandoll Communications Inc. He won awards at Granshan 2014 for the Korean typefaces Sandoll Myeongjo Neo1 (developed with Soo-Hyun Park) and Sandoll Gothic Neo1 (developed with Do-Kyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Kyuwon Lee

Kyuwon Lee studied Communication Design at the Pratt Institute of Brooklyn, New York. Currently, he is a graphic designer in New York. Jyuwon made the groovy typeface SFRW (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

L'Alphabet du Roi Sejong

J.-C. Loubet del Bayle sketches the development of Pan Tchel in 1446, a phonetic language introduced by an order of king Sejong (1419-1451). Hangul ("the grand writing") developed from that by combining consonants and vowels into one roughly square-shaped box, so Hangul is a syllabic way of writing, just like hiragana in Japan. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lang Minho

Seoul, Korea-based designer of an unnamed experimental angular Latin display typeface (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

LaTeX Navigator
[Denis Roegel]

General links on typography and fonts, compiled by Denis Roegel (with earlier contributions by Karl Tombre who is no longer involved). Very, very useful. This page contains, among other things:

  • METAFONT for Beginners (Geoffrey Tobin)
  • The METAFONT book (TeX source) (Donald E. Knuth)
  • How to Create Your Own Symbols in METAFONT and for use in LaTeX Documents (Richard Lin)
  • Milieu -- METAFONT and Linux: A Personal Computing Milieu (Thomas Dunbar)
  • Simple drawings with METAFONT (Zdenek Wagner)
  • Some METAFONT Techniques (article from TUGboat, 10 pages) (Yannis Haralambous)
  • List of all available Metafont fonts
  • Liam Quin's Metafont Guide (last version)
  • MetaFog: Converting METAFONT Shapes to Contours (Richard J. Kinch)
  • METAFONT source
  • Design of a new font family (slides) (Gerd Neugebauer) (1996)
  • PERL Module for reading .tfm files (Jan Pazdziora) (1997)
  • fig2mf (UNIX manual) (Anthony Starks)
  • bm2font (Friedhelm Sowa)
  • Essay on math symbols by Paul Taylor
  • drgen genealogical symbol font by Denis Roegel, 1996
  • Chess fonts
  • The Marvosym Font Package (Martin Vogels)
  • Eurosymbol, another font for the euro symbol
  • Lots of stuff on virtual fonts
  • P. Damian Cugley's Malvern (Greek) font
  • Yannis Haralambous's Omega project
  • DC and EC fonts by Joerg Knappen
  • Technical notes on Postscript fonts, and Postscript fonts in TEX
  • Computer Modern type 1 fonts
  • Articles on computer typography by Sebastian Rahtz, Aarno Hohti&Okko Kanerva, Richard J. Kinch, Basil K. Malyshev, Hirotsugu Kakugawa, Karl Berry, Victor Eijkhout, Vincent Zoonekynd, Tom Scavo, David Wright, Erik-Jan Vens, and Nelson H. F. Beebe.
  • Articles on mathematical symbol fonts
  • Links to essential pages for Cyrillic, Japanese, Berber, Khmer, Chinese, Korean, Greek, Indic, Syriac, Hebrew, Hieroglyphic, Tibetan, Mongolian, African fc
At FontStruct, he created Sixer (a pixel face) and Smallish (bold unicase). [Google] [More]  ⦿

least1234

FontStructor who made the squarish typeface Leafy (2011). With over 1600 glyphs, it covers Basic Latin, More Latin, Extended Latin B, Extended Latin A, Greek and Coptic, Cyrillic, Katakana, Hangul, Georgian, Bopomofo, Even More Latin. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Hyunho

Korean type designer. TheClassic (jointly developed by Park Yunjung, Choi Eunkyu, Kim Woori and Lee Hyunho) won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Sangwoo

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the modular Latin typeface Hodesty (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Seunghyub

Hangul font designer based in Sadang-dong, Korea. His typefaces: Ivatar (2014, Latin), Saemaul Undong (2014, in Regular, Stencil and Logo styles), Myungjo (2013, newspaper type), Papyrus (2013, free), Dodam (2012, a great free rounded sans). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee Yea Jin

Korean designer of a grid-based Hangul typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lee YongJae's Homepage

N3F-5 font: Korean (Hangul) Type 1 font. Also has a Hangul to PS converter (h2ps). Plus many other Hangul utilities. [Google] [More]  ⦿

LGJ Font Notes
[Edward G.J. Lee]

Taiwanese type designer Edward Lee has some font information pages (in Chinese). He has useful technical discussions on Metafont, OpenType, Truetype and type 1. Downloadable full CJK fonts include cwHBMono (2008, Tsong-Min Wu, Tsong-Huey Wu and Edward G.J. Lee).

This archive contains about 30 free full Chinese fonts in the WT, WTS, WP, and WCL series created in 2004 by Taiwanese type designer Edward G. J. Lee. The font names are: HanWangMingMediumChuIn, HanWangKaiMediumChuIn, HanWangMingMediumPoIn1, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn1, HanWangMingMediumPoIn2, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn2, HanWangMingMediumPoIn3, HanWangKaiMediumPoIn3, HanWangMingLight, HanWangMingMedium, HanWangMingBold, HanWangMingHeavy, HanWangMingBlack, HanWangYenLight, HanWangYenHeavy, HanWangHeiLight, HanWangHeiHeavy, HanWangLiSuMedium, HanWangFangSongMedium, HanWangKanDaYan, HanWangKanTan, HanWangZonYi, HanWangYanKai, HanWangShinSuMedium, HanWangCC02, HanWangCC15, HanWangGSolid06cut1, HanWangGB06, HanWang-KaiBold-Gb5, HanWang-WeiBeiMedium-Gb5, HanWang-FangSongMedium-Gb5, HanWang-SinSongThin-Gb5. All fonts are copyright Dr. Hann-Tzong Wang, 2002-2004. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Licheol

Korean font MagicR-HM by Human Computers (1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lim Sujin

Anyang, Korea-based designer of a Hangul typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Livid.cn

Chinese archive: Gulim (Latin/Cyrillic/universal and Korean typeface by HanYang, 2000), Hiragino Maru Gothic Pro W4 (OTF by Dainippon, 2002), Hei (for Mac), Heiti (Chinese font by Changzhou SinoType Technology Co, 2002), Lihei Pro (Chinese font by DynaComware Corp, 2003). Also, the Luxi family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Locho Soo Kim

London-based designer of the compass-and-ruler typeface Locho Sans (2014; this includes a rounded stencil and a 3d version) and Locho Stencil Slab (2016). These typefaces were made during her studies at Central Saint Martins. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Lucy Kirin

Lucy Kirin (Uniqkirin, Seoul, Korea) created the deorative typeface Random Monster (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

LZ

Seoul, Korea-based designer of an experimental typeface that is based on a grid. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Magdel Smith

Magdel Smith (Andong, South Korea) created a Latin alphabet, Think 2ice (2013), that takes inspiration from Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Main-jae Oh
[HB Font]

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MAN

In their Global Type collection, URW++ has MAN (2012), a private corporate typeface family for the MAN company. There is a limited retail version for the volume at 7,500 Euros. It covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mariah Kohl

Orange, CA-based designer of the decorative typeface Melody and a Korean typeface in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mark Frömberg

Berlin-based and Berlin-born illustrator and designer whose first degree is from the University of Applied Sciences (Berlin 2012). Graduate of the Type & Media program at KABK in Den Haag in 2014, where his graduation typeface was Shequalin.

He made the semi-calligraphic script typeface Faistra (2010) renamed Canary (2011, to be published by Die Gestalten), and the rounded informal typeface Calcine (2011, Die Gestalten).

Pigment (2012) is a chromatic typeface.

For his graduation project at the KABK in 2014, he created Shequalin, a text typeface for humoristic applications, Mark writes about this quirky but very pleasant and readable typeface: Shequalin is a text typeface designed for sophisticated humoristic literature and all kinds of typographic shenanigans. Be it satirical or dadaistic poetry, escapist or fictive novels, playful Shequalin seamlessly suits works by masters of the comical word. For the reader;s alertness, it rhythmically drops in oddities without distracting from the reading flow. In order to create a more severe and fervent contrast, the roman and italic were designed independently and merged later, creating a dynamic sense of tension and blatancy in Shequalin.

In 2016, he designed the monospaced programming font family Gintronic at Carrois and bBox Type.

Typefaces from 2019: Nunki (Future Fonts: a warm almost playful text typeface).

Co-designer of the free Google Fonts typefaces IBM Plex Sans Thai (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Ben Mitchell and Mark Frömberg) and IBM Plex Sans Thai Looped (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Ben Mitchell and Mark Frömberg).

In 2020, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg set up Hypertype in Berlin, a studio that specializes in Latin and Hangul scripts. They promptly designed Neutronic and Neutronic Hangul, which are proportional descendants of Mark Frömberg's earlier monospaced typeface, Gintronic.

At Github, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg published the Latin / Hangul typeface family Hahmlet (2020). Hahmlet is inspired by a poster for the Korean Hamlet movie from the 1940s, created by an unknown letterer. Free download at Google Fonts.

Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Marxists.org

Small Tamil font archive: AParanarTSC, TSC-Sri, TSCArial, TSCComic, TSCMaduramNormal, TSCMylai, TSCTimes, TSCTimes, TSCVerdana, TSC_Avarangal-Bold, TSC_Avarangal-BoldItalic, TSC_Avarangal-Italic, TSC_Avarangal, TSC_AvarangalFxd, TSC_Kannadaasan, TSC_Thunaivan, TscSaiIndira, TscSaiSai. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Everyday
[Max Yao]

Taiwanese developer of many free and open source CJK fonts. TAs of 2020, these include Swei Bow Sans, Swei Bow Leg, Swei Bat Sans, Swei Toothpaste, Swei 3T Sans, Swei Nut Leg, Swei Nut Sans, Swei B2 Leg (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei B2 Sans (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei Gothic Leg, Swei Rainbow Leg, Swei XD Pearl (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei D Lucy (derived from Noto Sans CJK), Swei Gothic (derived from Noto Sans CJK), TaiwanPearl, Swei Gothic, Swei Sans, Swei B2 Serif, Swei Meatball (derived from Noto Serif CJK), Swei Spring (derived from Noto Serif CJK), B2 Hana, Hana Meatball, Naikai (derived from Seto), Bakudai, Massa (a brush script), Fake Pearl, Yu Pearl (derived from Huninn), JasonHandWriting.

Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Max Yao
[Max Everyday]

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mderpth
[Michelle Devlin]

Michelle Devlin (b. Guam) moved to New York in 2010, and currently lives in London. She graduated from RISD with a BFA in Graphic Design and a focus in HPSS (History, Philosophy, Social Sciences). Currently, Michelle is a graduate student studying Communication Design through the Royal College of Art's MRes programme, where she researches the intercultural collaboration behind the development of Korean typefaces for multilingual font families published by American tech giants such as Adobe, Google, and IBM. Graduate of TypeWest, class of 2021. Her typefaces:

  • Arcadia (2022). An unconventional, three-style display font family inspired by video-games of the early 21st century. Arcadia was her graduation project at Type West, where she was guided by Graham Bradley, Lynne Yun and James Edmondson.
  • Candida (2021). A decorative geometric slab serif revival of Candida Antiqua (Jakob Erbar, 1936). Guided by Graham Bradley and Kel Troughton of Type West.
  • Augustine (2020-2021). An interpretation of 18th-century punchcuttings inspired by minor inconsistencies found in metal type. Guided by Frank E. Blokland of Plantin Instituut voor Typografie.
  • Stencil (2020). A Korean/Hangeul stencil-style display font inspired by the work of Laura Meseguer, Ken Lunde, and event branding of ATypI 2020. Guided by Chorong Kim of Sandoll.
  • Ribbon (2020). A horizontal-contrast sans.
  • Bridge (2018-2020). A 9-style pixel font illustrating the history of cultural assimilation on Guam inspired by the speech Paradox in Paradise.
  • Canoe (2017). A humanist serif text font inspired by the book IBM and the Holocaust: The Strategic Alliance between Nazi Germany and America's Most Powerful Corporation. Guided by Richard Lipton of RISD.
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Melissa Kow

During her studies in Auckland, New Zealand, Melissa Kow designed the Hangul ribbon font Soju Metal (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Merck

A corporate URW typeface family published in 2009. The 17-font family sells for nearly 10,000 Euros. There are sans, serif, semi-sans and semi-serif subfamilies. This family started out as a design for the Merck company. URW writes: URW++ is authorized by Merck KGaA to deliver the Merck corporate typeface family for a license fee to external users, i.e. Merck KGaA suppliers such as ad agencies, signmakers and the like. The Merck corporate typefaces are available in four different volumes with correspondingly multi lingual character encoding. All Merck Global Fonts contain approximately over 45,000 glyphs including the complete CJK glyph set (China, Japan and Korea). Besides all Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic glyphs as well as the complete CJK glyph set also cover Japanese Katakana and Hiragana plus Korean Hangual syllables. Furthermore they are supporting Thai and Arabic (including Farsi and Urdu) plus Hebrew and Vietnamese as well. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Metafont at CTAN archives

PS, metafont and PK images of several Hangul typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Michael Green
[GT Foundry]

[More]  ⦿

Michelle Devlin
[mderpth]

[More]  ⦿

Microsoft fonts for Chinese, Japanese, Korean

Someone posted this on alt.binaries.fonts. To obtain a free Japanese TrueType font from Microsoft: (1) run Microsoft Internet Explorer (MSIE); (2) go to any web page; (3) change the View menu / Encoding item to Japanese; and (4) wait for several megabytes to download. Use the same procedure for Chinese or Korean. Microsoft has a web page for these downloads. Search for the keywords "Chinese", "Japanese", or "Korean" (without the quotes) on the http://office.microsoft.com/ web site. You want the "language pack" downloads. These pages often move, but recently were: Japanese (2557 KB with the "MS Gothic" font), Korean (1985 KB with the "GulimChe" font), Simplified Chinese (2561 KB with "MS Hei" and "MS Song" fonts), Traditional Chinese (3541 KB with the "MingLiU" font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mihyun Sim

During her studies at Konkuk University in Seoul, South Korea, Mihyun Sim created the Cat Waltz typeface (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mijin Go

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a modular Latin typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mike Abbink
[IBM Plex]

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Mikyoung Jeong

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Min Hong

At the University of Seoul, Min Hong designed Block Sans Extreme in 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mina Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the sans titling typeface Thanatos (2014), which is Helvetica, modified by adding some thorny mini-serifs and rounding some internal angles. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mingoo Yoon

Graphic and type designer in Seoul, Korea. Typefaces by him made between 2012 and 2014 include Yoonseul, Sumo Moji, Ganal Buri, Eu-ddeum, and Hangeul.

He works closely with the Dinamo type fopundry. In 2019, he extended Fabian Harb's Favorit to Favorit Hangul. In 2021, he published Whyte Hangul and Whyte Inktrap Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minjae Kang

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minji Kwon

Born in the Canary Island from South Korean parents. During her studies at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Minji Kwon (b. 1992) created Purple Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Minjin Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Min-Joo Ham

Min-Joo Ham (Seoul, South Korea, b. 1985) is a type designer, typographer and a graphic designer who studied graphic design at the Seoul Women's University (2005-2009). After that, she designed typefaces at the Korean type foundry S-Core. In 2015, she graduated from the TypeMedia program in Den Haag, and settled in Berlin. Future Fonts link.

During her Bachelor's studies, she created the experimental Latin / Hangul typeface Bang.

She designed Core Label (2012, S-Core": with Hyun-Seung Lee). Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the programmers' typeface Eco Coding (2012) and the huge Core Sans, Core Sans G (geometric), Core Sans M and Core Sans N, Core Sans NR, and Core Sans N SC families (supported codepages are MS Windows 1252 Latin1, MS Windows 949 Korean (Hangul) consisting of 11,172 letters and KS Symbols (Korean Symbols)).

In 2013, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham jointly designed the layered type system Core Circus---as a reaction to the hugely successful Trend typeface by Latinotype, I guess. The slab version is Core Magic (2014). See also Core Circus Rough (2014) and Core Magic Rough (2014), both jointly designed by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim. Core Slab M (2013) is a 31-style companion of Core Sans M---it is a soft rounded slab with some seriffy tails mixed in with standard slab terminals. Core Mellow (2013) is a condensed organic rounded sans family that comes in 21 weights.

In 2014, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Min-Joo Ham co-designed Core Sans D, Core Sans A, Core Rhino, Core Narae Pro (a Comic Sans alternative) and Core Deco (a 14-style art deco family).

The rounded versions of the Core Sans E, D and G families were designed in 2015 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim under the names Core Sans ES, Core Sans DS, and Core Sans GS.

In 2015, Min-Joo Ham designed the Latin / Hangul typeface Koppla (2015) as a graduation project from the TypeMedia program of KABK, Den Haag. Koppla comes in title, bold, book, text and italic styles.

In 2017, at Fust & Friends, where she is part of the founding group of designers, she published the layered colorable retro script typeface family Teddy, which is loosely inspired by an alphabet drawn by Ernst Bentele in 2017. The family was awarded at TDC Typeface Design 2018.

In 2019, she released Dunkel Sans at Future Fonts and wrote: Dunkel Sans is a buzzing heavy weight display font, perfect to leave a fierce impression on posters and signage applications.

Seol Sans (2018) is a full Korean font family developed by Minjoo Ham, Akira Kobayashi and the Monotype Design Team. It features Neue Frutiger (an extension of Adrian Frutiger's Frutiger) for its Latin glyphs, and works harmoniously with Neue Frutiger World and Monotype's CJK typefaces: Tazugane Gothic (Japanese) and M XiangHe Hei (Chinese). Variable fonts published in 2022: M XiangHe Hei SC Pro Variable, M XiangHe Hei SC Std Variable, M XiangHe Hei TC Variable, Seol Sans Variable, Tazugane Gothic Variable, Tazugane Info Variable.

In 2020, she released Blazeface Hangeul at Future Fonts.

In 2020, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg set up Hypertype in Berlin, a studio that specializes in Latin and Hangul scripts. They promptly designed Neutronic and Neutronic Hangul, which are proportional descendants of Mark Frömberg's earlier monospaced typeface, Gintronic.

At Github, Minjoo Ham and Mark Frömberg published the Latin / Hangul typeface family Hahmlet (2020). Hahmlet is inspired by a poster for the Korean Hamlet movie from the 1940s, created by an unknown letterer. Free download at Google Fonts. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Minjung Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Hanna 11yrs old (Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae; Minjung Kim). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MinSung Noh

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the blackletter typeface Godwin (2018), the poster sans typeface 1987 (2015) and the inline typeface Mad (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

MIZI Research

For Korean: Baekmook Gulim, Baekmook Batang, Baekmook Doteum, Baekmook Headline. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moa Ku

Korean type designer, who won an award at Granshan 2016 for Sandoll Late Spring (together with Jiin Park) and Sandoll Gyeokdong Myeongio (together with Sungwoo Choi). Moa Ku is associated with Sandoll Communications Inc. [Google] [More]  ⦿

moct fonts

Korean font archive with type 1 fonts in the GSMH and GSMJ families from Seoul Systems. And the MGungJeong truetype font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moeun Young

Designer who created a Hangul typeface for children called JJongAlDohHee in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monica Park

Seoul-based designer of the Korean typeface Anumche (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monotype: All languages

Monotype sells fonts for the following languages: Amharic, Aksara Kaganga, Arabic, Armenian, Balinese, Burmese, Cambodian, Chinese, Coptic, Devanagari (Hindi/Marathi/Nepali), Farsi, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gujerathi, Gurmukhi (Punjabi), Hebrew, Japanese, Javanese, Jawi, Kannada, Korean, Laotian, Lontarak, Malayalam, Old Bulgarian, Oriya, Pushto, Sindhi, Sinhalese, Surat Pustaha, Syriac, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Urdu, Vietnamese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Monotype: Korean

Korean fonts at Monotype Imaging:

Korean

Font Name

Character Set

Encoding

HYSinMyeongJo-Medium

Hangul + Hanja

Unicode

HYGoThic-Medium

Hangul + Hanja

Unicode

HYRGoThic-Medium

Hangul + Hanja

Unicode

HYGungSo-Bold

Hangul

Unicode

HYShortSamul-Medium

Hangul

Unicode

HYGraPhic-Medium

Hangul

Unicode


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Monotype's East Asian Stroke Font Set

Monotype states: Traditional Asian TrueType fonts require megabytes of storage too much for most memory-restricted or low-resolution devices. Yet, storage requirements can be reduced 90 percent or more using our stroke-based fonts. For example, a standard GB 2312 Simplified Chinese TrueType font with 7,663 characters is about 2.7 MB. Our stroke font equivalent is under 250 KB. Cell phones, set-top boxes, PDAs, most other wireless devices and even operating systems benefit from stroke-based fonts. Our fully scalable stroke-based fonts consist of composite strokes or graphemes. These simple shapes appear as pen strokes or lines and are used repeatedly to build complex East Asian characters. Graphemes offer huge storage savings. The same graphemes are used to construct various characters that can add up to thousands in a single font. Another major advantage lies in the technologys simplicity: less than half the number of points are needed to render characters much less than building characters using traditional outlines where points are located on the edges of shapes rather than at the centerlines. Our stroke-based fonts support both native and Unicode encodings and are available for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese and Korean scripts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Montessori Korea

The Hangul truetype font H2wulM (HanYang Systems Inc., 1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Moon J. Choi

Graphic designer in Seoul, Korea, who created Sticker ABC (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Mr. Freely

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a tangram typeface in 2015. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

msktt fonts

Free TeX distribution font package for Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Multi Font

Free truetype versions of MSGothic (Japanese), GulimChe (Korean), MingLiu (Chinese), MSSong (Chinese), MSHei (Chinese). Page seems down. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Munhwa fonts

Complete set (2MB) of Hangul (Korean) type 1 fonts: the Munhwa family. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Munseok Choi

Munseok Choi (Seoul, South Korea) created Dot Font in 2013. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Musikund Design

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the Hangul typefaces Sonagi (2016) and Moonshape (2016). Sonagi is designed for vertical priting and is based on the Gungche calligraphic style practiced in the Joseon Dynasty. Moonshape (2016) is a calligraphic take on the classical Hangul serif typeface Myungjo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

My Wiki

Korean page on truetype fonts and TeX. Has some free fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Myungsoo Han

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces: BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang), BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nadostar Net

Some Chinese and lots of Korean truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Namu Lee

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the design of the Hangul typeface Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Neo Font
[Yi Min]

NeoFont is a Korean type foundry. Among its designs, we find Neo (2013, avant-garde Latin face) by Yi Min (Hays, KS). There are, of course, tens of Hangul (Korean) fonts as well. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

New Breed Software

Free truetype fonts for Greek (Thryomanes by Herman Miller, 2002), Chinese (AR PL SungtiL GB by Arphic Design, 1999), Japanese (Kochi Gothic by Wadalab), Tamil (TSCu_Comic by Thukaram Gopalrao, 1999), Hebrew (Nachlieli Light by Maxim Iorsh, 2002) and Korean (Baekmuk Gulim by Hwan Design, 2000). [Google] [More]  ⦿

NHN Corporation

Korean type foundry which provided several typefaces to Apple as Latin / Hangul system fonts in 2010. These include Nanum Brush Script, Nanum Myeongjo (free), and Nanum Gothic.

The Nanum fonts (Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Pen Script, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Gothic Coding, Nanum Brush Script) are Unicode fonts designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by Sandoll Communications and Fontrix. The publisher is Naver. Nanum Pen Script is a contemporary pen script with a warm touch and is expertly hinted for screen use.

Namum Gothic Coding (2009) is by Nicolas Noh, Bruce Kwon, Sungwoo Choi, Goun Cha and Soohyun Park. Nanum Gothic (2011) is by Nicolas Noh, Bruce Kwon, and Sungwoo Choi. Nanum Myeongjo (2010) is by Yong-rak Park and Ji-hee Yoon. Nanum BrushScript (2010) is by Doo-yul Kwak and Nicolas Noh. Nanum Pen Script (2010) is by Hyunghwan Choi, Doo-yul Kwak and Nicolas Noh.

Google Fonts links: Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Pen Script, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Gothic Coding, Nanum Brush Script. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nicolas Noh

Nicolas Noh is the Korean codesigner, with Doo-yul Kwak, of the Latin/Hangul script font Nanum Brush Script (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. In 2011, with Bruce Kwon and Sung-woo Choi, he co-designed the Apple system font Nanum Gothic (a sans for Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Hangul, NHN Corporation).

URL for NHN.

Google Fonts links: Nanum Brush Script, Nanum Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nils Germain

At Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea-based Nils Germain (b. France, 1993) designed the free oriental simulation typeface Morning Calm (2017) and the techno display typeface Neou Thin Waveform (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nimbus

In their Global Type collection, URW++ has its Helvetica clone, Nimbus Sans (2005, 5 fonts, 2000 Euros) and Nimbus Roman (2005, 2 fonts, 2000 Euros). The former is based on Helvetica, the latter on Times New Roman. Meant as workhorses, these fonts cover Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, Arabic, and Hebrew. Of course, Nimbus Sans can be had for free at Open Font Library.

The first versions of Nimbus Sans were digitized in the 1980s for the URW Signus sign-making system. The highest precision of all characters (1/100 mm accuracy) were required because the fonts were to be cut in any size in vinyl or other material used for sign-making. During this period three size ranges were created for text (T), display (D) and poster (P). In addition, URW produced the L-version that was compatible with Adobe's PostScript version of Helvetica. Nimbus was also the product name of a URW-proprietary renderer for high quality and fast rasterization of outline fonts. Also in the 1980s, a new improved and expanded version of the Nimbus Sans, Nimbus Sans Novus, was developed with URW's Ikarus system. Nimbus Sans Novus was modified for Nimbus Sans Round in 2015. Nimbus Sans Devanagari was redesigned in 2016. Nimbus Roman Japanese was refurbished in 2014 by URW.

Two releases in 2021: Nimbus Roman No. 9 L, Nimbus Sans L. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nina Lee Storm

Born in Seoul, Nina Lee Storm moved to Denmark in 1975, where she works as a freelance type designer. Nina lives in Middelfart, Denmark, and her company is Lee Storm Design. She designed Storm Sans at Agfa/Monotype in 2000. She designed Noa for use on television and computer screens during the late 1990s. This tall x-height short-ascendered typeface was published by Linotype in 2004.

FontShop link. Klingspor link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Noheul Lee

Noheul Lee obtained a bachelor in visual communication design from Sangmyung University, Korea. She pursued a Master in visual communication design from Kookmin University, Korea, and a Bachelor's Degree from Sangmyung University in Seoul. Noheul graduated from the TypeMedia program at the Royal Academy of the Arts, in The Hague, in 2018. Currently she is working as a multi-script type and graphic designer. Starting in 2020, she was a partner at lo-ol type foundry, a studio based in Switzerland, with husband Loris Olivier.

Noheul's graduation typeface Areon covers both Latin and Hangul and both scripts are quite nicely harmonized. Areon Hangul was based on Myungjo. Noheul won the gold medal in the Latin category at the 22nd Morisawa Type Design competition in 2019 for Areon.

In 2019, Future Fonts released her angular Latin / Hangul typeface Arvana, which won the 6th Bang il young Cultural Foundation Fund Competition for Hangul typefaces in Korea.

Co-designer with Loris Olivier and Katja Schimmel of McQueen Superfamily (2020, at Fontwerk), a 20-style sans family. Fontwerk link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noto

A large free font family released under the Apache license at Google Web Fonts, and developed by Monotype's Steve Matteson and a team of type designers. Designed between 2012 and 2016, this typeface covers over 800 languages and 100 writing scripts. URL with details. Noto stands for no tofu, i.e., no white boxes that represent unknown characters. The fonts are property of Monotype, with the exception of Noto Khmer and Noto Lao, which belong to Danh Hong.

Noto Sans and Noto Serif cover Afar, Abkhazian, Afrikaans, Asturian, Avaric, Aymara, Azerbaijani-AZERBAIJAN, Bashkir, Bambara, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Bislama, Bini, Breton, Bosnian, Buriat, Catalan, Chechen, Chamorro, Mari (Russia), Corsican, Czech, Church Slavic, Chuvash, Welsh, Danish, German, Modern Greek (1453-), English, Esperanto, Spanish, Estonian, Basque, Finnish, Fijian, Faroese, French, Fulah, Friulian, Western Frisian, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Galician, Guarani, Manx, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hiri Motu, Croatian, Hungarian, Interlingua (International Auxiliary Language Association), Igbo, Indonesian, Interlingue, Inupiaq, Ido, Icelandic, Italian, Kara-Kalpak, Kikuyu, Kazakh, Kalaallisut, Kurdish-ARMENIA, Kumyk, Komi, Cornish, Kirghiz, Latin, Luxembourgish, Lezghian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Latvian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Maori, Macedonian, mo, Maltese, Norwegian BokmÃ¥l, Low German, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Norwegian, South Ndebele, Pedi, Nyanja, Occitan (post 1500), Oromo, Ossetian, Polish, Portuguese, Romansh, Romanian, Russian, Yakut, Scots, Northern Sami, Selkup, sh, Shuswap, Slovak, Slovenian, Samoan, Southern Sami, Lule Sami, Inari Sami, Skolt Sami, Somali, Albanian, Serbian, Swati, Southern Sotho, Swedish, Swahili (macrolanguage), Tajik, Turkmen, Tagalog, Tswana, Tonga (Tonga Islands), Turkish, Tsonga, Tatar, Twi, Tuvinian, Ukrainian, Uzbek, Venda, Vietnamese, Volapük, Votic, Walloon, wen, Wolof, Xhosa, Yapese, Yoruba, Zulu, Akan, Aragonese, ber-dz, Crimean Tatar, Kashubian, Ewe, Fanti, Filipino, Upper Sorbian, Haitian, Herero, Javanese, Kabyle, Kuanyama, Kanuri, Kurdish-TURKEY, Kwambi, Ganda, Limburgan, Mongolian-MONGOLIA, Malay (macrolanguage), Nauru, Ndonga, Navajo, pap-an, Papiamento-ARUBA, Quechua, Rundi, Kinyarwanda, Sardinian, Sango, Shona, Sundanese, Tahitian, Zhuang.

Non-Latin scrips include Noto Armenian, Noto Georgian, Noto Carian, Noto Greek, Noto Devanagari, Noto Ethiopic, Noto Glagolitic, Noto Hebrew, Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic, Noto Sans Lisu, Noto Sans Lycian, Noto Sans Lydian, Noto Sans Old South Arabian, Noto Sans Osmanya, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Shavian, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Serif Thai, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sana Telugu, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Orya (for Odia), Noto Sans Bengali.

Other typefaces in the package include Arima, , and Tinos.

At CTAN, one can find Noto with full TeX support.

At Open Font Library, one can download Noto Nastaliq Urdu (2014), which covers Arabic, Farsi, Pashto and Urdu.

The fonts, as of October 2016: Noto Sans, Noto Serif, Noto Color Emoji, Noto Emoji, Noto Kufi Arabic, Noto Mono, Noto Naskh Arabic, Noto Nastaliq Urdu, Noto Sans Armenian, Noto Sans Avestan, Noto Sans Balinese, Noto Sans Bamum, Noto Sans Batak, Noto Sans Bengali, Noto Sans Brahmi, Noto Sans Buginese, Noto Sans Buhid, Noto Sans CJK JP, Noto Sans CJK KR, Noto Sans CJK SC, Noto Sans CJK TC, Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal, Noto Sans Carian, Noto Sans Cham, Noto Sans Cherokee, Noto Sans Coptic, Noto Sans Cuneiform, Noto Sans Cypriot, Noto Sans Deseret, Noto Sans Devanagari, Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs, Noto Sans Ethiopic, Noto Sans Georgian, Noto Sans Glagolitic, Noto Sans Gothic, Noto Sans Gujarati, Noto Sans Gurmukhi, Noto Sans Hanunoo, Noto Sans Hebrew, Noto Sans HK, Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic, Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi, Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian, Noto Sans Javanese, Noto Sans Kaithi, Noto Sans Kannada, Noto Sans Kayah Li, Noto Sans Kharoshthi, Noto Sans Khmer, Noto Sans Lao, Noto Sans Lepcha, Noto Sans Limbu, Noto Sans Linear B, Noto Sans Lisu, Noto Sans Lycian, Noto Sans Lydian, Noto Sans Malayalam, Noto Sans Mandaic, Noto Sans Meetei Mayek, Noto Sans Mongolian, Noto Sans Myanmar, Noto Sans NKo, Noto Sans New Tai Lue, Noto Sans Ogham, Noto Sans Ol Chiki, Noto Sans Old Italic, Noto Sans Old Persian, Noto Sans Old South Arabian, Noto Sans Old Turkic, Noto Sans Oriya, Noto Sans Osmanya, Noto Sans Phags Pa, Noto Sans Phoenician, Noto Sans Rejang, Noto Sans Runic, Noto Sans Samaritan, Noto Sans Saurashtra, Noto Sans Shavian, Noto Sans Sinhala, Noto Sans Sundanese, Noto Sans Syloti Nagri, Noto Sans Symbols, Noto Sans Syriac Eastern, Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela, Noto Sans Syriac Western, Noto Sans Tagalog, Noto Sans Tagbanwa, Noto Sans Tai Le, Noto Sans Tai Tham, Noto Sans Tai Viet, Noto Sans Tamil, Noto Sans Telugu, Noto Sans Thaana, Noto Sans Thai, Noto Sans Tibetan, Noto Sans Tifinagh, Noto Sans Ugaritic, Noto Sans Vai, Noto Sans Yi, Noto Serif Armenian, Noto Serif Bengali, Noto Serif Devanagari, Noto Serif Georgian, Noto Serif Gujarati, Noto Serif Kannada, Noto Serif Khmer, Noto Serif Lao, Noto Serif Malayalam, Noto Serif Tamil, Noto Serif Telugu, Noto Serif Thai. Late additions include Noto Sans and Serif for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, developed at Adobe.

In 2015, Adam Twardoch placed the Noto fonts on Github under the name Toto Fonts. A question of licenses. Toto Han fonts, 123MB worth of them. P>In 2018, Monotype published a fork of Noto Sans Display, called Avrile Sans (free at Open Font Library). See also Avrile Sans Condensed (2015) and Avrile Serif (2018).

Github repositories. Open Font Library link. CTAN link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Noto CJK

Noto Sans CJK and Noto Serif CJK are free typeface families developed at Adobe and Google to complement the universal Noto font package between 2014 and 2017. CTAN link. Credits :

  • Ken Lunde (project architect at Adobe, glyph set definition and overall production).
  • Masataka Hattori (production and ideograph elements).
  • Ryoko Nishizuka (kana and ideographs).
  • Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek and Cyrillic).
  • Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo).
  • Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang and Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters and syllables).

Dedicated Google fonts sites include Noto Serif SC (for Simplified Chinese; it covers all the Chinese characters listed in China's (Tongyong Guifan Hanzibiao) along with the ASCII, additional Latin letters for Pinyin, punctuation marks and full-width characters used in Chinese), Noto Sans SC, Noto Serif TC (for traditional Chinese), Noto Sans TC, Noto Serif JP and Noto Serif KR. Noto Serif KR has been subsetted to cover the full repertoire of modern Hangul syllables (11,172) and most of symbols in KS X 1001. It also has the full support for Old Hangul with Unicode Hangul Conjoining Jamos and Opentype features. It does not have any Hanjas (Chinese characters) and Greek/Cyrillic letters. Noto Serif JP has been subsetted to all of the kanji in JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213, and JIS X 0212, including all kanji in Adobe-Japan1-6.

See also Noto Sans HK. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Nouree Kim

Seoul-based designer of the thin sans Hangul typeface Nou Light (2014). Another URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

NTNP Design Laboratory

Korean studio. They used iFontmaker in 2011 to make the hand-printed typeface Dimanche (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

nucl-a

Korean truetype fonts TAEBRNR0, TAEBRWR0, TAEDENR0, TAEHLML0., TAEMMTB0, TAEMMTB9, TAESOHA0, and other goodies such as URW's EnglischeSchT_DemiBold and HarlowD. All free. TrueType. [Google] [More]  ⦿

odinn

Fantastic Korean font archive, loaded with screen fonts, truetype fonts (96 MB worth), X11 fonts, and utilities. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Ok Kyung Yoon

Ok Kyung Yoon (b. 1975, South Korea) works and lives in Paris. After studying at the Fine Art School in Mulhouse, she started as a freelance graphic designer and works in parallel with her studies at the EnsadLab, notably with the institutions of contemporary art like the Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain/FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais in France or La Fundación ArtAids, Barcelona. Speaker at ATypI 2010 in Dublin. In 2009-2010, with fellow ENSAD students Anthony Dathy, Perrine Saint Martin and Timm Borg, she developed a complete family of fonts that extend blackletter and roman typefaces by Ulrich Gering that go back to the 1470s. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Onsoo
[Gorae Font]

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OReilly

Free type fonts for Chinese (MOEKai, MOESung), Korean (Munhwa) and Japanese (WadaGo, WadaMaruGo, WadaMin). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paperly Studio
[Seohae Shin]

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Catch Feels (2018), the brush font Share Smile (2019), and the cartoon fonts Honey Apple (2019), Jealous Kitty (2018), Whiskey Bite (2018) and Sparkling Attack (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Park Juyeon

Gwacheon, Korea-based designer of an experimental (Latin) circle font in 2015 that seems specially useful for logos. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Park Yunjung

Korean type designer. TheClassic (jointly developed by Park Yunjung, Choi Eunkyu, Kim Woori and Lee Hyunho) won an award at Granshan 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Paul Catholic: Korean archive

Truetype archive in Korea, having all free Microsoft fonts, and a whole slew of Hangul TrueType fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

PeachPeachPeach

Seoul, Korea-based designer of Amedeo Modigliani (2014). In 2014, she was studying at Dankook University. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pear Jean

Gimhae, Korea-based designer of the circular Latin typeface Pjean (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

pmy.lv

Four full Korean truetype fonts: CR (a Korean extension of Bodoni), HYRGoThic-Medium (HanYang Systems, 1995), Mhansek (MorrisDesign), YetR-HM (Human Computers, 1996). [Google] [More]  ⦿

PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics typography

For the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympics, there is a custom set of typefaces. Called PyeongChang2018, it was designed by Kyoung Seok Kwon and Nicolas Noh at Sandoll Communications Inc in 2013. PDF file that introduces he branding (in Korean). Some typophils feel that he Hangul component is just SD Gothic Neo 2. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Pyun-Suk Hoon

Korean type designer who won an award at Granshan 2014 for the Korean typeface Yoongothic 700 (developed with Cheok Denk Young). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Qianqian Fang
[Wen Quan Yi]

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Qianqian Fang
[WenQuanYi Zen Hei]

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Qnix Computer Co

Korean foundry. Some of their fonts are downloadable here: Gaeul (1995), GTB (1995), HeadG (1995), Nuggim (1995), Utum, Uri, SeUtum, QGungsuh (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rafael Ribas

Graduate of the DSAA program at Ecole Estienne in Paris. In 2017, he released the Latin / Hangul typeface Daewang at E162. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rarefonts

Korean designer of the Latin typefaces Kaya Sans (20 styles) and Neue Kaya Serif (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rei Kirie

Graphic designer in Seoul. Creator of the alchemic / withcraft / magic / connect-the-dots font SIGIL (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rha Soohyun

Designer of the free Hangul font Sorawin-Plain. An old URL. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Riccardo Lorusso

MATD University of Reading graduate, class of 2013. He created the excellent typeface Agosto for his graduation thesis. Agosto covers Latin, Korean and Greek. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rido Kim

Gunpo, Korea-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Santaword (2014). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Rojotype (was: Kikichi Factory)
[Jeff Kichang Kim]

Kichang Kim has degrees in communication design from Samsung Art and Design Institute in Seoul (2009), HGK FHNW in Basel (BA in 2013, MA in 2015). He set up Kikichi Factory in Basel, Switzerland, where created the high-contrast sans typeface Snello (2014-2018) and the calligraphic text typeface Kontro (2016-2019).

From 2016 onwards, he is lecturer at Sookmyung Women's University, and from 2020 onwards also at Dongyang University.

Later, he started Rojotype in Seoul, South Korea. The typefaces at Rojotype:

  • Arco (2020). A Venetian text typeface family by Jongbeom Kim.
  • Bello (2020). A 5-style slab serif by Kichang Kim.
  • Viso (2020). A hipster sans family.
  • William Sans. An eight-weight sans serif family by Hyunseung Lee.
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Roman Postovoy
[Supremat]

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Rumi Kim

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of the monolinear hand-drawn typeface HU Cookie (2020, with Haerin Lee and ByoungHeon Park). HU Cookie covers Latin, Cyrillic and Greek.

Typefaces from 2021: HU Dear Molly (an informal monolinear typeface), HU Big Round (a techno typeface by Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim), HU Rosette (a cursive display serif by Haerin Lee, Rumi Kim, ByoungHeon Park and Gahee Kim).

Typefaces from 2021: HU Flat White (a tuxedoed sans by Rumi Kim and Jihye Lee), HU Mymyoh (a 6-style techno sans), HU Masking Tape Latin (a masking tape font for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Rumi Kim and ByoungHeon Park), HU Life Style (a six-style display sans by Rumi Kim, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee), HU Basic Round (a simple sans by Rumi Kim and Yehyeong Lee). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Ryul Davidson
[Brenners Template]

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Saja TypeWorks
[Aaron Bell]

Aaron earned a Bachelor's degree in Asian Studies, with a minor in Japanese, at Whitman College in Walla Walla, WA. Aaron is a graduate of the University of Reading in 2011, where he earned an MA in typeface design. His graduation typeface was Saja (2011), which covered Latin and Korean. In the Fall of 2011, he joined the Microsoft Typography team.

In 2015, at Microsoft, he designed the free sans typeface Selawik, which is metrically compatible with the infamous Segoe UI. Selawik now also exists as a variable font.

In 2016, het up his own type foundry in Seattle, Saja TypeWorks. At Saja TypeWorks, he published the sans-serif typeface Salish, which is inspired by the art of the Salishan tribes in the Northwest Americas: It draws heavily on the concept of the ovoid, a wide ovular shape that is flat on the bottom and top heavy, that is central to the art style known as Formline. Language support includes some 200 Latin-based languages as well as the necessary orthographies for all Salishan languages, including: Comox, Sliammon, Klahoose, Pentlach, Sechelt, Squamish, Halkomelem, Nooksack, Straights Salish (Saanich), Lushootseed, S'Klallam, Quinault, Upper Chehalis, Lower Chehalis, Cowlitz, Bella Coola, Ditidaht, Tseshaht, Nuu-chah-nulth, Ehattesaht-Nuchatlaht, Kwak'wala, Shuswap, Lillooet, Thompson River Salish, Coeur d'Alene, Columbia-Moses, Colville, Okanagan, and Montana Salish. Haida (a non-Salishan language) is also supported.

At FontStruct, he designed Syzygy.

In 2017, he published HWT Aetna at P22. Aetna is a sturdy roman wood type first see in William H. Page's 1870 specimens.

Aaron Bell digitized the free logo font Air America in 2018. He writes: This font was produced for William G. Sherman who recreated this alphabet from samples of the logo and other sources from the airline company Air America.

In 2018, he published the free DIN-based sans typeface Bahnschrift for Microsoft at Open Type Library. The font posted at Open Font Library is flawed (look at the capital A), so I wonder if that post was done by an impostor. Bahnschrift was the basis of his 2021 typeface, Grandview, which could be tipped by Microsoft to replace Calibri---in use since 2007--in its Microsoft 365 apps and Office products.

Typefaces from 2019: Industrial Spill (with Dave Savage), Tipsy Waitress (beatnik, cartoonish; with Dave Savage), Super Chill MC (with Dave Savage).

For Microsoft's Windows 10, he designed the open source monospaced font Cascadia Code. The plan is to add support for Greek, Cyrillic, Vietnamese, Arabic and Hebrew during 2020. TeX support for Cascadia Code.

Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Seeking the Korean true italic. Speaker at ATypI 2013 in Amsterdam: Directionality in Korean type design. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Salika

Commercial Khmer font producer. Salika Ltd is located in Tokyo. Their Khmer fonts are named Khm-1 through Khm-4. They also have fonts for Bengali, Burmese, Chinese, Latin, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Nepali, Cyrillic, Tamil, Thai and Vietnamese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samhwa

Korean type foundry in the metal era which produced, e.g., Choi Myungjo in 1958. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samsung

3.MB Korean font file with 4 Korean truetype fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 fonts

Download Samsung Galaxy S8 and Note 8 fonts for all Android devices. These include Noto Serif, the Roboto family, SEC Roboto Light (2015, by Neville Brody, Luke Prowse and Florian Runge), and the Samsung Sans family (2015, by Neville Brody, Luke Prowse and Florian Runge). All these families and Roboto are all credited to Neville Brody, Luke Prowse and Florian Runge at Brody Associates and have Roboto in the internal font name. It is disturbing that there is no mention in any of the font files of Roboto's original designer, Christian Robertson. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Samsung One UI Fonts

Download 4444 free fonts for Samsung One UI, with special subcollections of 3941 Latin fonts, 486 Korean and 17 Chinese fonts. These are not system fonts, but mostly scrapbook or amateur typefaces.

The 486 Korean fonts:

  • From Human365, between 2011 and 2015: 365Dashofcharm, 365Enamored, 365Fallyouth, 365Ghostsmet, 365Greatstyle, 365Honestppum, 365Hummingsusu, 365InnocentBeauty, 365Iwanttosee, 365Kuhitdehet, 365Likeactress, 365Maryjane, 365Mystyle, 365Naivegirl, 365Orangeblue, 365Pureappears, 365Riseyouth, 365Romanticgothic, 365Sugarball, 365ThatsOK, 365Thinkeveryday, 365Toyou, 365Wehappy, 365brotherstyle, 365happyday, 365honeyclover, 365pickastar, 365simplevintage, 365smileange, 365socool, 365sweetnco, 365thegirl, 365vanillacandle, 365warmhearts, 365whitelove, Dailyvlog365, EverybodyLikes365, Fallingstarlight365, Finedayjeju365, Loveyoumorethanme365, MeetOnMonday365 Pigrabbit365, Starserenade365, Tteokbokki365.
  • From Aafont in 2020: AaDecember, AaFebruary, AaFlowerStar, AaGoTerSans, AaGodSummer, AaJanuary, AaJejuSea, AaJuly, AaMapoSans, AaMapoSansMedium, AaMarch, AaMay, AaMoonrise, AaOnTheCloudsLight, AaPipiLong, AaPrettyDay, AaPrettyThing, AaYouthfulLight, AaxSeoyeon, BaBlahmyungjo, BaEggMayo, BaNiceBookstore, BaNoteWriting, BaSalala, BaTheLove, BaTypefont, Bablahgothic, Basweetday.
  • From Type&Type in 2020: AndBroccoli_K-Regular, AndFinetypeL-Regular, AndGanadara-Regular, AndHawaiianCouple-Regular, AndSecretDoor-Regular.
  • From BraceTech in 2020: BRbookmark, BRcutepet, BRcutetype, BRfruits, BRserifcharm, BRserifsans, BRwindblow, Merong.
  • From Lee DS in 2015: ByAdoreme.
  • From Byfont in 2020: ByAppleCrumble, ByBbibbimongAgain, ByBboBbo (Daseul, 2020), ByBeagle (Kyung, 2020), ByChickpea, ByCutePuppy, ByCutie, ByDangerous, ByDdoddot (Daseul), ByHoneybutterfont, ByHulaolala, ByInJeong, ByMycalli (Daseul), ByMyheart (Daseul), ByNanaCoco, ByOkidoki (Daseul), ByOmgpretty (Daseul), ByOneMoreAge, ByPpuing, ByRealjackpot (Daseul), ByRoseSherbet, BySeeagain (Daseul), BySooooCozy, BySooooCute, BySooooNeatly, BySooooPrim, BySugarGothic, BySummerlight, ByUdidwell (Daseul), ByWritepencil, ByYlangYlang, ByYouthLetter, Bybandeut, Bycupofcoffee, Byggomjirak, Byhappyrudolph (Siri), Bylilylily (Kyung), ByHugMe (Kyung).
  • By CE Font in 2020: CEAutumnletters, CEClassica, CEFairy, CEMinstrel.
  • By EEDA in 2020: CatBaristaNote, CatGothicNo1, CatMislangSandwich, CatRomanticKittyg.
  • From DY Font: DYHoneylemontea_K-Regular, DYMyfortune_K-Regular, DYRingaDinga-Regular, DYShyGiraffe-Regular, DYflutteringly-Regular.
  • From Daintype, 2014-2020: Dain10YearsOld_K-Medium, DainCelebrity_K-Medium, DainCiabattaMedium, DainDDyong_K-Medium, DainFullMoonMedium, DainMalMedium, DainSewing2Medium, DainStrangeMedium, DainTall, DainUEOng_K-Medium, DainYoungPenRegular.
  • From DdFont: DdBlueSans, DdD-Gothic, DdDuoPt2, DdNawaHamkke.
  • From By-Dear Font in 2020: DearBanana, DearForest, DearGrooming, DearMemo, DearMerrymerry, DearPistachio, DearRainbow.
  • From Sunju Han in 2019 and 2020: Egg9CutieBoy-Regular, Egg9DailyAndH-Regular, Egg9ILOVEYOU-Regular, Egg9Marshmallow-Regular, Egg9MellowGray_K-Regular, Egg9MilkyWay-Regular, Egg9MintTeaH-Regular, Egg9Mischievous-Regular, Egg9ModernHouse-Regular, Egg9MyStory-Regular, Egg9MyWedding-Regular, Egg9OneTwo_K-Regular, Egg9StarMoon-Regular, Egg9SweetSky-Regular.
  • From Goodfont: GFBreath, GFConsonant, GFCookieLight, GFCopywriter, GFDolmen, GFFairness, GFGiraffeGreen, GFMate, GFMonophagia, GFOnlyGuitar, GFOwlType, GFPanache, GFPenLight, GFPencil, GFRabbit, GFRoundGothic, GFSalmons, GFSilentNight, GFSmart, GFSpaceTour, GFSweetFish, GFWinterBeach.
  • From Heumm: HUBlossom, HUChurros, HUCustomgoth, HUDailynew, HUEdgegoth, HUFinepenM_K, HUGrimb, HUIncludemj, HUIncludemjM_K, HUMonba, HUNeatwrt_K, HURicecake_K, HUSistergo, HUSkymjo_K, HUSugarcookie, HUWeirdacorn_K, HUWiselife, HUZodiac_K.
  • From Login Design: Log_Ankyung, LogBandalgom, LogByeolnan, LogChwihyang, LogDalbitsigdang, LogDonggle, LogGaebab, LogJjingothic, LogMemory, LogMyGamsung, LogNemokimbap, LogPooggak, LogSecondfloor, LogShampoo, LogTraveler, LogUchippong.
  • From Morris Design: MDBangabso, MDBucketList, MDConfidence, MDCozycozy, MDDabansa, MDDaldalgoory, MDDoljikku, MDEsop, MDFriendship, MDHaebongyi, MDHappyharu, MDHealingtalk, MDHeartalk, MDHoneylollipop, MDHugme, MDItgirl, MDJihoon, MDKkamnyang, MDMaimai, MDMellowcream, MDMelodybong, MDMine, MDNewstart, MDOppabelieve, MDPinklady, MDPlaywithme, MDPounding, MDRomanticist, MDSweetday, MDTruefriend, MDWerfriends, MDYourName, MDZoneout.
  • From MFont: M_BabyPanda, M_Dancingcat.
  • From MIJ Communication: MfAmpleGothic, MfCloudGothic, MfEmperorMj, MfNaturalGothic, MfNiceFonts, MfPitapat, MfSantoriniM, MfSlyRabbit, MfSoftGothicL, MfTimeTraveler, MjBlackFit, MjLittlePrince, MjLoveAgain, MjMJGothic, MjMeAfterYou, MjRaindust, MjStarPoem, MjThatAutumn, MjWinterSea.
  • From MongFont in 2020: MongBrownie, MongCupCake, MongKindLetter, MongLandBySky, MongLikeYouLight, MongPencilMong, MongRiverPark.
  • From FontNAMU: NaHaesoldiary, NaYeRimDiaryL_K, Nabicycletrip_L, Nagoodjobtoday_K, Nainmyheart.
  • From NeoFont: Neo2Hak3Ban, Neo3Hak4Ban, NeoAutumnItalic, NeoAutumnmyung, NeoBeancoffee, NeoCheesecake, NeoDogdung, NeoFontLand, NeoFonttaste, NeoGolmok, NeoGothic, NeoGothic2, NeoGothic2Italic, NeoGothic2Light, NeoHappycharge, NeoHardramen, NeoHipenguin, NeoKingkongdung, NeoMew, NeoMixramen, NeoRabbittown, NeoRobot1, NeoRobot2, NeoRobot3, NeoStarlight, NeoThefirstgrade, NeoTomboy.
  • From TogetherGroup: OdAGratefulDay, OdAngButter, OdAutumnPoem, OdByulHana, OdDawnNightSky, OdOhMyGoodness, OdOnionPotato.
  • From By-Only: OnlyCherry, OnlyDaisy, OnlyDoremi, OnlyPlayBest, OnlyWintersky, OnlyWritepencillight, Onlycutefont.
  • From Fontrix: RixAloha, RixArtist, RixBaguette, RixCloud, RixFallVacation, RixHipster, RixMangoIce, RixManyThanks, RixMilkCaramel, RixNemoSans, RixScribbleT, RixThankyou, RixTokyoEmotion, RixVanillaBean, RixWinterGlow.
  • From SF Font: SFHiSantaClaus, SFJongdalriSuper, SFSoCute, SFSummerVacation, SFToFlowers.
  • From Jungle System Co: COOBlueSmoothie, COOBongsoon, COOFallisHere, COOGothicMode, COOStarNovel, COOWinterRomance, SJBanggu, SJEngagement, SJHeartCandy, SJLeafwind, SJLoveplus, SJLover, SJRedAcorn, SJStarlight, SJSummergothic, SJSympathy, SJcherrypop, Sjpromise.
  • From JIUT between 2017 and 2020: SUM3aXmX, SUMacorn, SUMcbcookies, SUMfontmonster, SUMlegostar, SUMsummercandy, SUMwatermelon, SUMyumyum-Regular.
  • From Samsung Electronics Co in 2017: SamsungOneUI-Bold, SamsungOneUI-Regular. SunnyHandwriteRegular,
  • From Typodesign.Lab.Inc: T4Drizzle, T4Halfsquare, T4Havesmile, T4Newsquare, T4Pestlebunny, T4Rustle, T4Scribble, T4Tangerine, T4Wishspring, TDBearandrabbit, TDBurnfriday, TDCrackup, TDLovefont, TDPureMJ, TDStarCoffee, TDUgly, TDbearpants, TYPOAwesome, TYPOGiraffetree, TYPOGoodboy, TYPOHalloween, TYPOHsummer, TYPOLovefeel, TYPORednose, TYPOSofttender, TYPOWatchhead.
  • From TheFontGroup: THEAlbino, THECandybar, THECoyly, THEEuropetravel, THEGaeideuk, THEHappyfruit, THEHoneybrown, THEInhojin, THEKingsulk, THEMacaron, THEMidnightdiner, THEYNForest.
  • From Typespace: TSautumncomes, TSbyeol, TSchocolatemilk, TSdeeptree, TSgoodguy, TSkumquat, TSlongballoon, TSmerrytreesmas, TSpogglepogry, TSsummerblue, TSsummervacation, TStropical, TSwassummer.
  • From TogetherGroup: TTAgainSea, TTGiwaGothicR, TTLovelySSong, TTNaramalsami, TTPenWorkBook, TTWantToBeHappy, TTleafAndWind.
  • From Typeset Company in 2020: TYPECamellia-Regular, TYPEFallromance-Regular, TYPEHoliday-Regular, TYPEMayonnaise-Regular, TYPEMygarden-Regular, TYPESeoulnight-Regular, TYPESunplace-Regular, TYPEYorelatte-Regular.
  • Orphaned: WDbananamilkl, WDbehappy, WDbestfontrestaurant, WDmyafternoon, WDrainysummernight, WDwecandoit, Petplant.
  • From Wefont: WeGulimaiLt, WeReadingSans, WeReadingSansLt.
  • From Yoon Design: Hello, YDAmericano, YDAnyounghaseyo, YDBakedBread, YDBlackFit, YDGirlstory, YDMalangChansoul, YDwhitefit.
  • From Fontbank: byadultwrite, bypinkpeach, FBBest, FBBlue (with Lee Yongje), FBGreen (with Lee Yongje), FBGrey (with Lee Yongje), FBLSMB, FBLateBoy, FBMindReading, FBNavy (with Lee Yongje), FBPlum, FBYellow (with Lee Yongje).
  • From UnuFont: unuLittlesnowman-Regular, unuREDLIP-Regular, unubabypink-Regular, unulittleforest-Regular, unusmile-Regular.
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Sandoll Type Bank (or: Sandoll Communications)
[Seok Geumho]

Large commercial Korean type foundry that has made more than 400 fonts since its inception in 1984 by Seok Geumho (aka Paul Geumho Seok). Fonts by them include SanDoksuri B (1996), SanKaibyuk M (1996), SDBiSang UL (1998), SDBiSang L (1998), SDBiSang B (1998), and the free Latin/Korean handwriting font SD Kwang Soo (1998).

The Nanum fonts (Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Pen Script, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Gothic Coding, Nanum Brush Script) are Unicode fonts designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by Sandoll Communications and Fontrix. Nanum Eco (2008) is a free Korean font with holes inside the glyphs to save on ink.

Google Fonts links: Nanum Myeongjo, Nanum Pen Script, Nanum Gothic, Nanum Gothic Coding, Nanum Brush Script.

Custom typefaces: Joon-Ang Daily, Interpark Gothic, Jeju, Hyundai Sans (2016: free), Hangil E-Type. Facebook page. Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sang Mun

Graduate of RISD, 2012, who worked at the Walker Art Center in New York. Seoul, Korea-based designer and art director. Creator of the Latin text typeface Lancet Wounded (2012) and of the grunge experimental typeface ZXX (2012, free). Social commentary: As a reaction to government surveillance, the ZXX typeface is embedded with disruptive designs that are meant to combat optical character recognition processes. The four options for online communications camouflage [called XED, Noise, False, and Camo] each have characteristics that keep them legible to humans, but baffling to machines. Sang Mun: The project started with a genuine question: How can we conceal our fundamental thoughts from artificial intelligences and those who deploy them? Library Stack link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sang-a Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the designs of these Hangul typefaces:

  • Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim)
  • Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim)
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Sanggeun Kim

Suwon, Korea-based designer of the rounded Seoul Han River font (2017) for Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SangHyeon Park

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of HU Bubble (2020, with Haerin Lee) and HU Wind Sans (2020: a 15-style sans for Latin, Greek and Cyrillic by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and ByoungHeon Park).

Typefaces from 2021: HU Kinderland (a fat finger font by SangHyeon Park and Beopho Choi), HU Battery (a sci-fi typeface by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and Yehyeong Lee), HU Crayon Doodles (by SangHyeon Park, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sang-jin Park

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the Latin typeface Exquisite (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sang-Min Lee

In 2015-2016, Yong-Rak Park, Jeong-Hwan Yoon and Sang-Min Lee designed the huge programming font D2Coding for NHN. It covers Latin, Hangul, Cyrillic and simplified Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sang-soo Ahn

Korean graphic designer who heads PaTI (Paju Typography Institute). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sangyeon

South Korean artist who created the free Latin hand-printed typeface Cyan Egg in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sarchu

Korean designer of an experimental stencil typeface, Objectives (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sebastian Moser

As a student at Hochschule Pforzheim in Germany, Sebastian Moser won an award at TDC 2014 for his typeface Sori (2013). Sori is a Latin typeface that emulates the stacking of Hangul. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sehyeon Uchi

Anseong, Korea-based designer of a display typeface in 2017. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seo Daeun

Korean designer of the experimental typeface family Thunder and Lightning (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seohae Shin
[Paperly Studio]

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Seok Geumho
[Sandoll Type Bank (or: Sandoll Communications)]

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Seong Ah Choi
[Yoon Design Institute]

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Seoul Hangang

A free Hangul typeface made in 2011. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Serious Fun Type Foundry
[Dong-Kwan Kim]

In 2018, Korean type designer Dong-Kwan Kim set up Serious Fun Type Foundry.

Co-designer with Hyun-Seung Lee and Dae-Hoon Hahm of the grungy paint-splatter typeface family Core Paint (2014) and the grungy layered typeface systems Core Circus Rough (2014) and Core Magic Rough (2014).

In 2015, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim co-designed the grotesque typeface family Core Sans E. The rounded versions of the Core Sans E, D and G families were designed in 2015 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim under the names Core Sans ES, Core Sans DS, and Core Sans GS. In 2015, Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim added the soft and rounded Core Sans R to the S-Core Sans series, as well as Core Sans B. In 2016, they added the rounded small x-height family Core Sans BR and the geometric sans family Core Sans C. The rounded version of Care Sans C, called Core Sans CR, was designed in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm, and Dong-Kwan Kim. The neutral Core Serif N was added in 2016 by Hyun-Seung Lee, Dae-Hoon Hahm and Dong-Kwan Kim.

In 2018, Dong-Kwan Kim designed the humanist sans typeface Scholar Sans. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Seung Hyun Kim

Seoul, Korea-based designer of a textured version of Berthold's akzidenz Grotesk, called Alien Akzidenz Grotesk (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seung Yoon Lee

Seung Yoon Lee is a Research Professor at Design Major, Seoul National University since 2010, and her main research interests are typography, editorial design and new media. Speaker at ATypI 2012 in Hong Kong: Typography in marginal spaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seunghan Bae

Korean designer (aka pear94210) who used FontStruct in 2009 to make Shadow (shadow font), Outside (bilined), Squaline (gridded), 5to5 (pixel), Shine, Heart Negative, Heartbreaker (octagonal), Octagon, Basic, Neos, Heaven, Remember (kitchen tile), Genie (bold, condensed), and Heaven. In 2010, these fonts were added: Chocolate, Piece (dotted font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Seunghyun Kang

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the squarish Latin typeface KangD (2019). [Google] [More]  ⦿

SeungJoo Lee

Seoul-based designer of a few experimental Hangul typefaces (2014) such as Miro Maze and Chess Font. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shaak

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the ribbon typeface Flag (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

shiva.snu.ac.kr

Korean site with a Korean type 1 font, and h2ps, a program to convert Hangul to PostScript. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Shyoung Lee

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the Latin titling typeface Athena (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

SinHee Park

Bucheon, Korea-based designer of Turkey (2014, an Arabic simulation typeface). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sojeong Park

Creator of the Hangul font Mulgam Che (2013). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soohee Cho

Graphic designer in Providence,RI, who created the wedge serif Black Cat typeface (2016), which was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe's The Black Cat. She also published some fine Korean lettering posters (2016). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soo-Hyun Park

Korean type designer at the Korean type foundry Sandoll Communications Inc. He won an award at Granshan 2014 for the Korean typeface Sandoll Myeongjo Neo1 (developed with Kyung-Seok Kwon). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soojung Lee

Anyang, Korea-based student-creator of the display typeface Bake (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soomin Lee

Student at Parsons in New York. Creator of Dynamic (2009, experimental). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soonho Kwon

Korean type designer. SM Myungjo Std (Adobe) is a Hangul font that was designed by Jungho Choi (1916-1988) with help from Soonho Kwon in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea. He also designed the Hangul typeface SM Gothic in 1988 for Doosan Donga, the largest publisher in Korea, with Soonho Kwon. Adobe's version of SM Gothic is dated 1996-2011. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Source Han Sans

In July 2014, Adobe and Google jointly announced the publication of the free Asian typeface family Source Han Sans for Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The fonts and original code are downloadable from SourceForge and GitHub. Blog page at Typekit. Blog post at Google. The other name for the family, Noto Sans CJK, is used by Google.The open source license even permits modification of the glyphs.

The 42 fonts are designed for small devices, and thus, the glyphs are monolinear and simple. Each font weight in the family has a total of 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of characters supported in the OpenType format), and the entire family contains just under half a million total glyphs. Adobe sought expertise from foundries such as Iwata Corp to expand the Japanese glyph selection, Sandoll Communication, designer of Korean Hangul and Changzhou SinoType, Adobe's longtime collaborator in China.

On the Google side of the project, where the fonts are added to the Noto Sans and Noto Serif (which covers all major languages of the world and many others, including European, African, Middle Eastern, Indic, South and Southeast Asian, Central Asian, American, and East Asian languages, and, since the joint release with Adobe in 2014, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, and minority languages related to them), users can download all Noto fonts freely in a 43 MB file.

References: Ken Lunde (Adobe) on the design and development of Pan-CJK fonts (2010). Inside the fonts, we find these credits: Ken Lunde (project architect, glyph set definition & overall production), Masataka Hattori (production & ideograph elements), Ryoko Nishizuka (kana & ideographs), Paul D. Hunt (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic), Wenlong Zhang (bopomofo), Sandoll Communication, Soo-young Jang & Joo-yeon Kang (Hangul elements, letters & syllables).

At ATypI 2014 in Barcelona, the project was explained by product managers Stuart Gill of Google and Caleb Belohlavek of Adobe. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Source Han Serif

Source Han Serif is the serif-style typeface family companion to Source Han Sans. This free superfamily covers Chinese (traditional (both Taiwan and Hong Kong) and simplified), Japanese, Korean, Greek, Cyrillic and Latin. This project, based on designs originally due to Ryoko Nishizuka, a senior Adobe designer in Tokyo, started in 2010. The designers of Source Han Simplified and Traditional Chinese, and Source Han serif Japanese and Korean are Frank Griesshammer, Ryoko Nishizuka, Soohyun Park, Wenlong Zhang and Yejin We. The Chinese glyphs, both simplified and traditional, were designed by partner type foundry Changzhou SinoType. The Korean glyphs were designed by partner type foundry Sandoll Communications.

Source han Serif won an award at TDC Typeface Design 2018. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Southern Software Inc. (SSi)

In the late 1990s, SSi used to sell foreign fonts for Arabic, Urdu, Greek, Hebrew, Armenian, Baltic, Burmese, Cherokee, Cyrillic, Cree, Simplified Chinese, Ethiopian, Inuktitut, Gaelic, IPA, Japanese, Korean, Laotian, Mayan. Farsi, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Syriac, South Arabian, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Ugaritic, and Vietnamese. Plus musical dingbats. Of course, they did not make a single of these fonts themselves. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soyafont

Korean foundry where one can download free Hangul pixel fonts: soya_but9, soya_dadum9, soya_godun10, soya_koma9, soya_nallim9, soya_nanoom9, soya_non8, soya_soll9, soya_ssal9, soya_ttul9, soya_ulum10, soya_youngsoo9. [Google] [More]  ⦿

SoYeon Kim

Busan, Korea-based designer of The Little Prince (2016), a decorative caps typeface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Soyoung Lee

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp). He participated in the design of the Hangul typefaces Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim), BM Hanna Pro (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang), and BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

StarSuite 8

SUN's trial software comes with some Japanese, Chinese and Korean fonts (choose the right platform/language and throw away the software after locating the fonts). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Studio Jaso
[Ju-seong Park]

Korean designer of the Latin / Hangul sans typeface RyuGothic (2019) and the geometric sans typeface Carmen Sans (2019).

In 2020, they released the 10-style typeface Sejam.

Typefaces from 2021: Schola Serif (4 styles; for Latin and Hangeul). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Su Jin Lee

Kangnam, Korea-based designer of the Autumn Wind typeface for Hangul (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Suk-Hoon Pyun

Korean type designer. In 2021, at Yoon Design, he published these Latin / Hangul typefaces: Yoon Gothic 700, YD Gogooryo, YD Backjae, Cre Gothic, YDMyungjo 100 Pro (serif), YDMyungjo 200 Pro (serif), YDMyungjo 500 Pro (serif), YD Winter (a rough-edged script), YD Yoonche (a geometric sans), YD Sunbeams (a geometric sans), YD Summer (hand-printed), Cre Choco Cookie (hand-printed), Cre Cooljazz (hand-printed), DS Asphalt Scandal (a crayon font), DS Mass (a soft-edged hand-printed typeface), DS Novel 165 Page, DS Refined Letter, DS Romantic Guy, DS Sweet Kiss, YD Spring, YD Autumn (cursive), YD Gothic 200 Pro, YD Gothic 500 Pro, YD Reminiscence, YDGothic 100 Pro, YD Hope (a slab serif), Cre Happiness (an organic sans), Cre Hearttree, Cre Myungjo, YD Pine Needle (a solid serif font).

Typefaces from 2022: Yoon Gothic 700, YD Gogooryo, YD Backjae. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Sun Jung Hwang

Sun Jung is a graphic designer originally from South Korea. She graduated BA in graphic design at the Royal Academy of Arts (KABK), Den Haag, in 2006. Before her second stint at KABK, resulting in a Masters degree in type design, she worked in the fields of advertising and graphic design. Creator of Superhero (2011) and a few other experimental typefaces. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sun-Ext

Sun-ExtA and Sun-ExtB are two full free Unicode fonts, covering everything under the sun. Inside, we find information that these fonts were made by Beijing ZhongYi Electronics Co. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Sungeun Lee
[Fax]

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Sung-woo Choi

Korean type designer, who won an award at Granshan 2016 for Sandoll Gyeokdong MyeongJo (together with Moa Ku). Sungwoo Choi is associated with Sandoll Communications Inc. In 2011, with Nicolas Noh and Bruce Kwon, Sung-woo Choi co-designed the Apple system font Nanum Gothic (a sans for Latin, Chinese, Japanese and Hangul, NHN Corporation).

URL for NHN.

Google Fonts link: Nanum Gothic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Supremat
[Roman Postovoy]

Roman Postovoy is a web and graphic designer based in Dedovsk, Russia. His typefaces mostly return to the Bauhaus period and the era of Swiss typography. In 2020, he published the 5-style wide geometric headline sans Benzin, the all caps Bauhaus typeface Weimar for Latin and Cyrillic, and the extra wide and heavy Hitchcockian typeface Anker.

Still in 2020, he released Rigel, an all caps blackletter typeface which was inspired by a 1936 poster by American artist and illustrator Katherine Milhous for the Ephrata Cloister.

Typefaces from 2021: Nucliometer (a piano key font), Lifeform (experimental), Uranus (a Latin // Hangul sci-fi typeface). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Suwha Jang

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Suyeon Cho

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental geometric typeface Rubber Balloon (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Suyeon Lim

Seoul, Korea-based student-designer (at Seoultech) of the techno typeface Side (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Suyoung Yang

At the School of Visual Arts, Suyoung Yang (originally from Seoul, Korea) designed the geometric solid (Latin) typeface GeoType (2015) and an experimental circle-based typeface (also in 2015). Suyoung graduated from the School of Visual Arts in 2019, and started work at Everything Type Company in 2019. Suyoung is based in Brooklyn, NY.

In 2018, her bold and eccentric display typeface Chiifer won a Gold Award at the Graphis competition in the category type design.

In 2019, under the mentorship of Courtney Gooch and Paula Scher at SVA, she designed an experimental typeface for the Korean record label DRDR. Home page. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taehwan David Lim

Graphic designer in Seoul, who created the connect-the-dots typeface Celestial in 2015. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taehyun Cha

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Taekyeom Lee

During his MFA graphic design graduate studies at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Taekyeom Lee created the Hangul simulation typeface Hangul (2010), the modular typeface Wire (2012), the pure op-art typeface Dizzy (2011), and the 3d Latin typeface Land (2013). His latest research explores unconventional methods of creating three-dimensional type with materials and techniques unique to type design, such as ceramics and 3D printing.

He is currently an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Before that, he was an Assistant professor of Graphic Design at Appalachian State University in Boone, NC. Home page. Speaker at ATypI 2018 in Antwerp. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TEX fonts

31 sets of Hangul fonts for TeX. A mirror. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TGBUSAN

Korean font archive. Fonts from

  • TAE System&Typefaces Co (TAE Font, 1995)
  • Han Media
  • HanYang System Co (HanYang (1994), HYHaeSo-Medium (1995), HYSeNse-Bold (1995), H2wulM (1995), H2wulL (1995), H2wulB (1995), H2wulM (1995))
  • Hyundai Media Systems Co (HDMSTTFont, 1995)
  • Koshin Media Co
  • Human Computers Incorporated
  • FontBank Inc (FBGeDongE-Medium (1995), FBWhiteDoll-Medium (1995))
  • Qnix Computer Co (Gaeul (1995), GTB (1995), HeadG (1995), Nuggim (1995), Utum, Uri, SeUtum, QGungsuh (1995))
  • SandollTypeBank (SanDoksuri B (1996), SDKwangSoo L (1998), SanKaibyuk M (1996), SDBiSang UL (1998), SDBiSang L (1998), SDBiSang B (1998))
  • Seoul System Co (MBatang (1996), MHunmin (1996))
  • SYSTECH Co (KoreanTK-Medium-KSCpc-EUC-H, KoreanSHC-Light-KSCpc-EUC-H, KoreanSHC-Bold-KSCpc-EUC-H, KoreaBB-Light-KSCpc-EUC-H, KoreaART1-Regular-KSCpc-EUC-H, all made in 1998)
  • YangJae Media Co (POPMed (1996))
  • Yoon Design Institute (YDICuckB-KSCpc-EUC-H, YDICuckM-KSCpc-EUC-H, YDIYheadL-KSCpc-EUC-H
[Google] [More]  ⦿

The Dodam M

A free Hangul typeface made in 2012. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tive Inc
[Kidon Bae]

Kidon Bae is a multi-disciplinary designer from Los Angeles, California, currently residing in Seoul, South Korea. In 2017, Kidon created a custom modular typeface for Tive Inc's branding. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tivsoy

Based in Pusan, South Korea, Tivsoy created the LED-inspired Shelvow font (2013, free), the experimental vertically striped font TVL and the extremely spaced stencil typeface Hide in 2013.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

T.M. Chung

Archive with Andes, Argos-Regular, MagicR-HM (Korean), Mickey, SamM-HM (Korean), puzzleface. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Today Max

As a student in Wonju, Korea, Today Max created the Latin ribbon font Flower (2015). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Toodac Studio
[Harin Namgung]

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of a free vector format Latin comic book typeface in 2016. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Total Impact

Founded in 2004, total impact is a global design company that manages offices located in Seoul and Amsterdam. Their typefaces:

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TrueKeys

A truetype tool by UniDoc System. TrueKeys is the only font conversion utility that handles Chinese/Japanese/Korean TrueType font conversion between Windows and Mac OS platforms. Can also be used to add Unicode support (required for OS X) to older fonts that don't have it. US$50, and crippled free demo. An OS X version is available. The manufacturer reports: "TrueKeys is a Chinese, Japanese, Korean (CJK) 2-byte truetype font conversion utilities. What makes it different from other truetype utilities such as TTConvert 1.5 and TrueConvert 0.3b is that it generates its own cmap table for specified language encoding, and assemble the original font data into a new truetype. This strategy corrects some common PC font problems such as no Mac cmap table support, etc. When TTConvert or TrueConvert does not work for your font, you should seriously try TrueKeys. TrueKeys v3.5 is guarenteed to work with any Mac format CJK truetypes and Windows format truetypes (including TTC format). TrueKeys v3.6 is currently in beta, supporting both pre-MacOS 9 and MacOS X platform." [Google] [More]  ⦿

TrueKeys v3.4

Commercial (50 USD) Mac utility for Korean/Chinese/Japanese truetype: Convert Chinese/Japanese/Korean truetype fonts between Windows/Macintosh format. Add Apple Unicode encoding table to existing font to support's Apple's Unicode imaging technology. Convert Chinese/Japanese/Korean truetype fonts between popular encodings. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Tsong-Min Wu
[CWTTF]

[More]  ⦿

ttf-alee
[A. Lee]

Free Hangul fonts: 09t@, Antiqu@rk, Bandal, Eunjin, Ongdalsam, all made in 2004 by A. Lee. Eunjin and Ongdalsam are general purpose Hangul truetype fonts and contain ascii and Korean syllable characters. These fonts are looks good in 12px (9pt in 96dpi screen) size without antialiasing. 09t@ is not a real Hangul font. It is specially designed truetype ascii font in the manner of Hangul 3-bul-sik typewriter which was invented by Ph.D Kong Byeong-woo. Alternate URL. See also here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

TwinBridge Software Corporation

Unicode Chinese, Japanese and Korean true type fonts. Commercial outfit. One of its fonts, TSC-FMing-S-TT (1998) is here. [Google] [More]  ⦿

UnBatang Odal
[Koaunghi Un]

At this Korean font site, we find free Windows truetype assemblers and disassemblers, and several free truetype fonts called UnBatang (2003, Koaunghi Un), a full Latin/Cyrillic/kana/kanji/hangul text face, made by Koaunghi Un from 1998-2003. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Un-fonts
[Koaunghi Un]

Un-fonts come with the HLaTeX package as type1 fonts. They were designed in 1998 by Koaunghi Un and are under a general GNU public license. Truetype conversions by Won-kyu Park in 2003. The package is maintained (as of 2016) by Won-kyu Park and Jungshik Shin.

Download at CTAN. Download Unfonts Extra at CTAN. Alternate URL. Alternate URL. Open Font Library link. HLaTex (Korean Tex) link. The package has

  • UnBatang, UnBatangBold: serif (see also here)
  • UnDotum, UnDotumBold: sans-serif
  • UnGraphic, UnGraphicBold: sans-serif style
  • UnPilgi, UnPilgiBold: script
  • UnGungseo: cursive, brush-stroke
  • UnPen, UnPenheulim: script
  • UnTaza: typewriter style
  • UnBom: decorative
  • UnShinmun
  • UnYetgul: old Korean printing style
  • UnJamoSora, UnJamoNovel, UnJamoDotum, UnJamoBatang
[Google] [More]  ⦿

UniDoc

Vendor of Elegance Unicode Chinese, Japanese, and Korean truetype fonts for Mac and PC. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Unik Jung

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of Sonon Slab Serif (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Union Way GulimChe

Expensive Korean fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

UnionWay AsianSuite 97

Download UnionWay AsianSuite 97 for a 60-day free trial: it includes fonts for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. The registration procedure and mode of providing the files (exe) make this site not worth visiting for the free downloads at least. [Google] [More]  ⦿

University of Pusan

Click on #35 to get a 5MB rar file full of Korean fonts. Includes MagicR-HM, ModakR-HM, PamL-HM, YeopseoR-HM, by Human Computers (1996), Med by YangJae Media (1996), esop by Morros Design (2000), HYShortSamul-Medium, HYTaJa-Light, HYShortSamul-Medium, and H2cysM by HanYang Systems (1995). [Google] [More]  ⦿

URW Global

URW++ Global is the foundry name used by URW++ for a collection of fonts that support a combination of Latin and non-Latin scripts such as Nimbus Sans Thai (2008), and Nimbus Sans ME (2008: Middle Eastern scripts such as Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Cyrillic).

The Korean versions are Nimbus Roman Korean (2014) and Nimbus Sans Korean (2009).

The Japanese fonts include Nimbus Sans Japanese (2014).

The Chinese font collection includes the Hanyi fonts: Hanyi Bai Qi Jian (2001, simplified Chinese), Hanyi Bai Qing Jian (simplified Chinese), Hanyi Cai Die Jian, Hanyi Cai Yun Jian, Hanyi Chang Mei Hei Jian, Hanyi Chang Yi Jian, Hanyi Chen Pin Jian, Hanyi Fang Die Jian, Hanyi Fang Li Jian, Hanyi Fang Song, Hanyi Gan Lan Jian, Hanyi Ha Ha Jian, Hanyi Hai Yun Jian, Hanyi Hei, Hanyi Hei Qi Jian, Hanyi Hua Die Jian, Hanyi Huo Chai Jian, Hanyi Hu Po Jian, Hanyi Jia Shu Jian, Hanyi Kai Ti, Hanyi Li Hei Jian, Hanyi Ling Bo Jian, Hanyi Ling Xin Jian, Hanyi Luo Bo Jian, Hanyi Man Bu Jian, Hanyi Mi Mi Jian, Hanyi Nan Gong Jian, Hanyi Qing Yun Jian, Hanyi Shen Gong Jian, Hanyi Shou Jin Shu Jian, Hanyi Shuang Xian Jian, Hanyi Shu Hun Jian, Hanyi Shui Bo Jian, Hanyi Shui Di Jian, Hanyi Shu Tong Jian, Hanyi Song, Hanyi Tai Ji Jian, Hanyi Wa Wa Zhuan Jian, Hanyi Wei Bei Jian, Hanyi Xiao Li Shu Jian, Hanyi Xing Kai, Hanyi Xing Shi Jian, Hanyi Xiu Ying Jian, Hanyi Xue Feng Jian, Hanyi Xue Jun Jian, Hanyi Yan Ling Jian, Hanyi Ya Ya Jian, Hanyi Yuan Die Jian, Hanyi Yuan, Hanyi Zhong Li Shu Jian, Hanyi Zhu Jie Jian, Hanyi Zong Yi Jian. In addition, there are Nimbus Sans Chinese (2014) and Nimbus Roman Chinese. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

URW Nimbus Sans Global

Between 2005 and 2020, URW developed first URW Nimbus Sans---their take on max Miedinger's Helvetica---and later URW Nimbus Sans Global that covers all major scripts: Latin, Greek, Cyrillic, Hebrew, Arabic (+Pashtu, +Urdu), Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Armenian. Each of the seven styles has 65,000 glyphs and costs 2320 Euros (about 2500 dollars) per style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

URW Type Foundrty (was: urw++)

URW++ Design&Development GmbH is a Hamburg-based foundry established in 1995 by Svend Bang, Hans-Jochen Lau, Peter Rosenfeld, and Jürgen Willrodt. URW stands for Unternehmensberatung Rubow Weber, named after Gerhard Rubow and Rudolf Weber, cofounders of the original URW company from which urw++ evolved. It offers a whole range of font services and has an extensive (7000+) font library. At the basis of the early development of many classy PostScript fonts. For example, in 1999, URW++ donated the 35 core PostScript fonts (renamed) under the GNU GPL license to the Ghostscript project. The great 3000-font CD costs about 2000DM. Other CDs are more expensive: on the ITF CD, each font is about 100DM! URW sells fonts and font families with complete rights (you can change, resell, embed, anything, except use the original name), with examples ranging from 2k for a complete family of 12 to 5k for a collection of 250 fonts. This practice continues until today: URW++ thus provides a great service to software developers who want to include high-quality typefaces in their software applications. URW has offices in many countries. In the first decade of the 21st century, freelance type designer Ralph M. Unger contributed most frequently to the URW library. OpenType collection guide (in PDF).

Selected releases: URW Egyptienne, URW Grotesk (1985, Hermann Zapf), Anzeigen Grotesk (2009), Clarendon No 1 URW, Saa Series (an industrial sans: the official typeface for Australian road signage), Nimbus Sans (1987, a Helvetica clone), Nimbus Sans Novus, Nimbus Sans Europa (covering Latin, Greek, Baltic, Cyrillic, Central European, Turkish, Romanian, and so forth), Nimbus Roman No 9 (2001), Nimbus Sans Global and Nimbus Roman Global, each at about 2000 Euros, and each containing 35,000 glyphs, from kanji/Chinese/Korean to all European languages. House typefaces done for corporations: DaimlerChrysler Corporate ASE (after the Corporate ASE series for Daimler-Benz by Kurt Weidemann), Gardena Sans (2015, for Gardena), Siemens Schriftfamilie, Deutsche Telekom Schriftfamilie, ZF Friedrichshafen, Körber Argo, URW++ SelecType Raldo (2001, for Igepa).

MyFonts lists their bestsellers. Catalog of their typefaces [large web page warning]. Another catalog of URW's typefaces.

Eight-minute corporate movie produced in the summer of 2014. Adobe link. [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Wansool Lee

Suwon, Korea-based designer of the Hangul display typeface Oldman Font (2014). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Weidmüller

A corporate URW studio sans family published in 2012. The six-font family sells for over 4000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wen Quan Yi
[Qianqian Fang]

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the GNU license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages.
Developers:

  • Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • Ailantian: key developer for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
  • Haitao Han, "twang467", and Qing Lei: key developers for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
Links: Chinese version, English version, Sourceforge project, Development site, User forum, Screenshot gallery, Firefly bitmap font, Qianqian Fang homepage, Chinese National Standard. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Zen Hei download link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

WenQuanYi Zen Hei
[Qianqian Fang]

WenQuanYi Zen Hei is a huge unicode-compatible Chinese/Korean/Japanese/Latin (CJK) truetype font, available for free under the Gnu license. From the web page: The WenQuanYi Zen Hei font is a Chinese (or CJK) outline font with Hei Ti style (a sans-serif style) Hanzi glyphs. This font is developed for general purpose use of Chinese for formating, printing and on-screen display. The non-Hanzi glyphs, including Latin, extended Latin, kana etc were merged from cmunss.ttf from the CM-Unicode project, and mplus-1p-medium.ttf from the M+ project. The embedded WenQuanYi bitmap song fonts were developed by WenQuanYi contributors and Qianqian Fang based on the bitmap fonts by firefly.
WenQuanYi Zen Hei contains arguably the largest number of Chinese Hanzi glyphs of all known open-source outline Chinese fonts: it has 20194 Hanzi glyphs covering 97% of the Unicode CJK Unified Ideographics. This font provides full coverage to the required code points for zh_cn, zh_sg, zh_tw, zh_hk and zh_mo locales. The total vector glyphs in this font is over 35000 including Latin characters, Japanese kanas, hanguls and symbols from many other languages.
Developers:

  • Qianqian Fang: Developer for online and off-line stroke decomposition software, server-side scripts and database, software for vector glyph generation, font creation and version control, all the spline Hanzi glyphs, document and tutorial contributors and release manager. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
  • Ailantian: key developer for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
  • Haitao Han, "twang467", and Qing Lei: key developers for vector Chinese glyphs stroke decomposition.
Links: Chinese version, English version, Sourceforge project, Development site, User forum, Screenshot gallery, Firefly bitmap font, Qianqian Fang homepage, Chinese National Standard. Incredibly, Qianqian Fang holds a Ph.D. in biomedical engineering from Dartmouth (2004) and is now a full-time biomedical imaging researcher at the Massachusetts General Hospital. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wen's Room (FM 802)

Latin fonts Alphabet 1 through 4 (mostly pixel or dot fonts), katakana fonts 1 and 2, and Hangul font Hangwl_01, made by Wen in Japan. All are free. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Werner Lemberg
[CJK Macro Package]

[More]  ⦿

Why Not Smile LLC
[Hoon Kim]

Korean-born, New York-based Hoon Kim is with design consultancy Why Not Smile. In 2015, he published the typeface family Pin at Colophon: Pin is a three-weight, nine-cut family of geometric sans-serif types, available in dot-matrix, stencil, and (monoline) solid variations. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wiki freefont

Very useful link site for good quality free fonts for Unicode, and in particular for CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) fonts. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Won-Kyoung Seo

Graduate of Kookmin University. Seoul-based designer of the small device / smartphone font family Chameli Sans (2015, free). It has optical device-dependent sizing, and is according to its designer better suited than Tizen OS. Chameli is based on Google's Roboto (2011). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Woongchang Kim

During his studies in Seoul, Korea, Woongchang Kim created a Hangul typeface (2015). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Woonggil

Korean designer of the Hangul typeface Grass (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Woowahan Brothers

Korean type foundry. At Google Fonts, they published the handcrafted Latin / Hangul typefaces Kirang Haerang (2018) and Jua (2018), and the sans typeface Do Hyeon (2018). Fontsquirrel link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Woowahan Brothers (or: Woowa Brothers Corp)

Seoul, Korea-based designer of these free Korean typefaces at Google Fonts: Do Hyeon, Jua, Yeon Sung, Kirang Haerang.

Other free Korean fonts at their site:

  • Do Hyeon (2015, Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae at Sandoll)
  • BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang)
  • BM Hanna 11yrs old (Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae; Minjung Kim)
  • BM Hanna Air (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; Taehyun Cha; Byungsun Park; Minjin Kim; Hyesun Chae; Myungsoo Han; Bongjin Kim; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang; Jinhee Kim; Dokyung Lee)
  • BM Hanna Pro (2018: Woowa Brothers: Cheoljun Lim; Soyoung Lee; & Sandoll: Jooyeon Kang)
  • BM Jua (2014: Bongjin Kim; Jaehyun Keum; Juhee Tae)
  • BM Kirang Haerang (2017: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Namu Lee; Hyesun Chae; Soyoung Lee; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Juseong Park; Sang-a Kim)
  • BM Yeon Sung (2016: Bongjin Kim; Myungsoo Han; Jaehyun Keum; Jihee Min; Dokyung Lee; Chorong Kim; Jooyeon Kang; Sang-a Kim)
[Google] [More]  ⦿

Wujin Sim

Sim Wujin works in education and publishing, focusing on the design methodology of books and type. He wrote Manual of Body Text Typesetting (2015, Hiut Magazine, issues 6 and 7), and Easy-to-Find InDesign Dictionary (2011), and coauthored Microtypography: Punctuation Marks and Numerals (2015) and Typography Dictionary (2012). He published Type Trace: A History of Modern Hangul Type (2015) and translated Hara Hiromu and Modern Typography: Type, Photo, and Print of Japan in the 1930s (2017). Sim is currently the head of Sandoll Type Design Institute in Korea.

Co-designer of BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang).

IBM Plex Sans KR (2019; by Mike Abbink, Paul van der Laan, Pieter van Rosmalen, Wujin Sim, Chorong Kim and Dohee Lee) is a free multilingual typeface at Google Fonts.

ATypI 2019 in Tokyo on the topic of Hangul type design. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Würth

A corporate geometric URW studio sans family published in 2012. The three-font family sells for over 5000 dollars and covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. URW++ is authorized by the Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG to deliver the new corporate fonts to external service providers of Würth on the basis of royalty payment. Würth covers Turkish, Baltic, Romanian, Cyrillic, Greek, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Arabic, and Hebrew. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Wyatt Ward

Fort Wayne, IN-based designer of IBM3161 (2016). He writes: This is a monospaced bitmap font from IBM's 1985 ASCII Display Station (terminal), the IBM 3161. [It] includes versions for a multitude of devices and platforms. This font is huge, containing tens of thousands of pixelized glyphs, including full coverage of Chinese, Japanese and Korean. [Google] [More]  ⦿

xfonts

Go to xfonts at this Debian site, and get fonts and font software for use under X Windows, including fonts for Japanese, Greek, Chinese, Korean, and Cyrillic. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Xiles
[JungHoon No]

Korean designer of the free Korean font family Nexus (2003). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yanghee Ryu

Korean graduate of the type design program at the University of Reading, class of 2017. His graduation typeface there was Willow, a type family for multi-lingual typesetting in Latin, Korean, and Greek. It is inspired by Korean traditional woodblock printing. It combines the elegance and organic shape of the brush with the sharpness of wood carving.

In 2021, he published these typefaces at Google Fonts: Gowun Batang (text serif), Gowun Dodum (humanist sans), and developed Dongle (a rounded squarish Hangul font) on his Github site. Gowun Batang and Gowun Dodum were designed in 2010 and 2016, but the full set of 11,172 Hangeul syllables was not completed until 2021 in the Google Fonts/Github release.

Github link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yehyeong Lee

Type designer associated with Heumm Design in North Korea. Creator of HU Hand Serif (2020: with Haerin Lee and ByoungHeon Park), HU Green Tea (2021, with Haerin Lee), HU Crayon Doodles (2021, by SangHyeon Park, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee), HU Basic Round (2021, a simple sans by Rumi Kim and Yehyeong Lee), HU Life Style (2021, a six-style display sans by Rumi Kim, Yehyeong Lee and Jihye Lee), HU Battery (2021: a sci-fi typeface by Haerin Lee, SangHyeon Park and Yehyeong Lee), and HU Ketchup (2021, with Haerin Lee: an informal supermarket typeface for Latin, Cyrillic and Greek), HU Mois (a handwriting typeface by Yehyeong Lee and Beopho Choi; Latin, Greek and Cyrillic). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Yeji Choi

Busan, Korea-based designer of a decorative caps alphabet in 2017 called Instrumnent. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yejin We

Korean type designer. He was part of a Sandoll team that designed Typotheque's Greta Sans Korean (together with Jinhee Kim, under the supervision of Chorong Kim). He was also part of the team that designed Source Han Serif (with Ryoko Nishizuka, Frank Griesshammer, Wenlong Zhang, Soohyun Park, and Donghoon Han). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yeong Eun Choi

During her studies in Seoul, South Korea, Yeong Eun Choi designed the thin display sans typeface Solar (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yeonjae Lee

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the decorative caps typeface Love Buzz (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yeonjoo Huh

Korean designer of the all caps Latin Halloween font Monster Town (2017). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yi Min
[Neo Font]

[More]  ⦿

Yi-hee Yoon

Yi-hee Yoon is the Korean codesigner, with Yong-rak Park, of the Latin/Hangul serifed text font Nanum Myeongjo (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. URL for NHN.

Google Fonts link: Nanum Myeongjo. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yona Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yong-rak Park

Yong-rak Park is the Korean codesigner, with Yi-hee Yoon, of the Latin/Hangul serifed text font Nanum Myeongjo (2010, NHN Corporation), which is an Apple system font. URL for NHN.

Google Fonts link: Nanum Myeongjo.

In 2015-2016, Yong-Rak Park, Jeong-Hwan Yoon and Sang-Min Lee designed the huge programming font D2Coding for NHN. It covers Latin, Hangul, Cyrillic and simplified Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yoon Design Institute
[Seong Ah Choi]

Maker of (almost 300) Korean typefaces, est. 1989. Seoul's Seong Ah Choi is the Senior Developer. Check also the on-line Korean typeface magazine of the Yoon Design Institute. For a taste of their fonts, see YDICuckB-KSCpc-EUC-H, YDICuckM-KSCpc-EUC-H and YDIYheadL-KSCpc-EUC-H here. Other fonts include YDIWebDotum (2001), found here. Fonts include CheersB10, CheersB20, CheersB30, CheersM10, CheersM20, CheersM30, FreeB10, FreeB20, FreeB30, FreeL10, FreeL20, FreeL30, FreeM10, FreeM20, FreeM30, GroundB10, GroundB20, GroundB30, GroundL10, GroundL20, GroundL30, GroundM10, GroundM20, GroundM30, TaebekB10, TaebekB20, TaebekB30, TaebekCB10, TaebekCB20, TaebekCB30, TeensB10, TeensB20, TeensB30, TeensM10, TeensM20, TeensM30.

In 2017, Yoon Designpublished the free text typeface family Binggraell.

In 2018, Yoon Design published the Latin / Hangul typeface East Sea Dokdo at Google Fonts.

Typefaces from 2021, all done by Suk-Hoon Pyun: YD Winter (a rough-edged script), YD Yoonche (a geometric sans), YD Sunbeams (a geometric sans), DS Novel 165 Page, DS Refined Letter, DS Romantic Guy, DS Sweet Kiss, YD Spring, Cre Happiness (an organic sans), Cre Hearttree, Cre Myungjo, YD Pine Needle (a solid serif font). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yoon Hee Kim

New York City-based creator of an unnamed modular typeface in 2013. Jeju (2013, named after the South Korean island on which she grew up) is an ornamental didone typeface.

Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yoonah Kim

Seoul, South Korea-based designer of the free typeface Orientypes (2017) and of the rounded Hangul typeface Gubo (2018). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yoonah Kim

Type designer at Seoul, Korea-based Woohahan Brothers (Woowa Brothers Corp), who participated in the design of the Hangul typeface BM Euljiro 10 years later (2020, Bongjin Kim; Bomjun Kim; Myungsoo Han; Hyesun Chae; Mikyoung Jeong; Wujin Sim; Minjae Kang; Yoonah Kim; Yona Kim; Suwha Jang). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yooseob Jeong

Yooseob Jeong (Jaystudio, Seoul, Korea) created an octagonal paper-fold typeface in 2012. He graduated with an MA in graphic design in 2012 from London College of Communication. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yosep Lee

Daegu, South Kore-based designer (b. 1992) of the hand-printed Latin typeface Soljik Dambaek (2013, free) and the squarish typeface Ylee Polymnia Framed (2013). He started studying mathematics at McGill University in Montreal in 2011.

In 2014, he created the hyper-curly typeface Ylee Dalkom Roll Cake and the handwriting typeface Ylee Mortal Heart Immortal Memory.

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Young Gyun Woo

During his studies in New York City, Young Gyun Woo (b. South Korea) designed the angular typeface Chisel (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Young Hyun Ahn

Digital artist in Seoul, who created the multilined geometric prismatic art deco Latin typeface Facetype (2012). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Young Tae Bae

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the decorative Latin typeface Old Menu (2017). Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Youngjin Shin
[Diven]

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Youngsook Oh

HYGungSoStd-Bold (1996-2011, Adobe) was designed by Youngsook Oh for calligraphic uses, and for showing old-style hangul. Its glyphs are highly readable, and convey a hand-written style. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yumi Kown

Changwon, South Korea-based designer of Cardcaptor Sakura (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yunje Park

Seoul-based designer. He created a stunning poster set in 2013 to celebrate Paul Renner's Futura (1927). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yun-ui Choe

Goryeo Dynasty minister Choe Yun-ui of Korea is credited with publishing the first book printed with metal movable type in 1234. That book, Sangjeong yemun, described the manners of the Korean court from ancient times through the 1234. He lived from 1102 until 1162. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Yuri Sung

Seoul, Korea-based designer of the experimental combinatorial typeface Fragment (2016). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zefyrinus

Designer who used Fontstruct to create Stone Slab (2009, blocky; plus Stone Slab Kana for Japanese, +Stone Slab Hangul, 2010), Iron Gate Blocky (2008) and Kyuuketsuki (2008, blackletter with a vampire theme). [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zellibbi

Korean font archive. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zeniac
[Guyeon Pyo]

Korean architectural designer and musician, who studied at Seoul National University School of Architecture. In 2o20, Guyeon Pyo published Dozé in two styles, traditional (a sharp-edged transitonal serif) and regular (a playful version). [Google] [MyFonts] [More]  ⦿

Zess Type

Seoul, Korea-based creator (b. 1985) of the modular Hangul typeface Black (2015). Substyles include Neon, Stripe and Meltdown. In 2016, they developed the squarish Hangul typefaces BOM and First Black, as well as Zesstype Grafika (free), Zblack Meltdown and Zblack Neon Sign.

Typefaces from 2017: Grafika Type 2, 3 and 4 (piano key style). Home page. Dafont link. Behance link. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zhang Miao

Type designer. Finder is a multiscript typeface developed in 2020 at Black Foundry by Jérémie Hornus, Gaëtan Baehr, Changchun Ye and Zhang Miao. This neutral sans is intended for interface design, and covers Arabic, Cyrillic, Greek, Hangul, Hebrew, Japanese, Latin, Simplified Chinese, Thai and Traditional Chinese. [Google] [More]  ⦿

Zooey Lee

Seoul-based creator of the free hand-printed typeface Zooey's Diary (2013).

Dafont link. [Google] [More]  ⦿