Korean Fonts

The 11 Korean fonts span 5 structural categories: 7 display, 1 decorative, 1 handwriting, 1 pixel and 1 from other categories. The largest group, 7 display fonts, is more than half of the page; all of them are also on Display Fonts. All 11 belong to the Pro library rather than the free collection, so previews are open to everyone while downloads come with Pro, Studio or a Font Pass. Weights are not where these Korean fonts differ: all 11 come as one Regular style each. Other labels that recur across the set: bold on 9, geometric on 9, poster on 9 and retro on 7. 8 of them come in 3 groups drawn on a shared letter structure; the largest includes Arcade Block Pixel, Ballroom Inline and Fieldhouse Block, which differ in effect, slant or width rather than in their basic letter shapes.

Velocity Stripes leans the most, about 10°; across the Korean fonts with a measurable angle, 1 of 4 lean right with a median of 10° and 3 stand upright; the other 7 have strokes too varied to give one angle. Widths vary a lot: an average lowercase letter runs from 64.6% of the cap height in Marker Dry Chisel to 110.5% in Funk Wide. Their median width, 99.7%, is 23% wider than the 80.8% median of the whole library, so the same words take a longer line than in an average library font. Measured against their capitals, the Korean fonts here put the top of the lowercase between 70.3% and 83.3% of the cap height, 77.7% at the median; the library median is 71.6%. How dark a line of these Korean fonts looks ranges from 13.5% ink coverage in Bubble Tech Outline up to 47.5% in Fieldhouse Block; the median here, 40.4%, is 18% darker than the library's 34.3%. Read from the o, stroke contrast splits the 5 measurable Korean fonts this way: all 5 keep close to one stroke weight in every direction. Effects drawn into the letters appear on 8 of the 11 Korean fonts: 3D extrusion on 1, inline on 1, outline on 1, pixel grid on 1, drop shadow on 1, snow cap on 1, stripe on 1 and varsity outline on 1.

In Korean Hangul itself the set is even: each of the 11 measured fonts has the same 2,401 Korean Hangul characters. Every measured font can set the whole Korean test line "다람쥐 헌 쳇바퀴에 타고파", which its font page shows in the font itself. Character sets run from 2,496 to 2,575 (Velocity Stripes), and outside Latin 11 fonts cover Korean Hangul. 10 of the 11 include accented Latin letters beyond A to Z; the other 1 stops at the basic alphabet, so check names with accents in the preview first. Kerning is built in for 10 of the 11: a median of 101 adjusted letter pairs, up to 265 in Frosty Duplex. None has OpenType ligatures or alternates, and none has tabular figures, so columns of numbers will not align exactly.