Question 1

Is Nanum Pen Script free for commercial use?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Nanum Pen Script is under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use at any scale: print, websites, apps, videos and logos, for clients and in products; a changed version may not be called “Nanum” or “Naver Nanum” or “NanumGothic” or “Naver NanumGothic” or “NanumMyeongjo” or “Naver NanumMyeongjo” or “NanumBrush” or “Naver NanumBrush” or “NanumPen” or “Naver NanumPen”. What it forbids is selling the font file on its own.

Question 2

How do I download and install Nanum Pen Script?

Accepted Answer

FontKind doesn’t host Nanum Pen Script’s files: it comes free from Google Fonts. On its page there, choose Get font, then Download all, and unzip the file: it holds a single font file. On Windows or a Mac, double-click each font file and choose Install, then restart any app that was open.

Question 3

Does Nanum Pen Script cover every Hangul syllable?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Nanum Pen Script draws all 11,172 modern Hangul syllables, so any Korean word sets in it.

Question 4

How do I use Nanum Pen Script on a website?

Accepted Answer

Through Google Fonts: its stylesheet cuts Nanum Pen Script into about a hundred small files by character, and a browser downloads only those holding the characters a page shows, never the whole 3.1 MB Regular file. To host it yourself, cut it down to the characters your pages use, a step called subsetting, and serve it as WOFF2: the SIL Open Font License allows that, under a name of your own: Nanum Pen Script reserves “Nanum”, “Naver Nanum” and 8 more names.

Question 5

Can I use Nanum Pen Script in a game or an app?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The SIL Open Font License lets you build Nanum Pen Script into a game, an app or an e-book, sold or free, with no separate licence to buy, as many paid fonts require. Ship its licence with the font files, and don’t sell the font on its own.

Question 6

Is Nanum Pen Script in Microsoft Word?

Accepted Answer

Not until you install it: Nanum Pen Script isn’t one of Microsoft 365’s cloud fonts. Installed, it is in Word’s font menu and PowerPoint’s. For someone who hasn’t installed it, turn on Embed fonts in the file in Word’s save options: its licence allows that.

Question 7

Is Nanum Pen Script in Google Docs?

Accepted Answer

Most likely. Search for Nanum Pen Script under More fonts in the font menu of Docs; added there, it is in Sheets and Slides too.

Question 8

Is Nanum Pen Script in Figma?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Nanum Pen Script is in Figma’s font menu, in the browser and the desktop app, with nothing to install.

Question 9

How many weights does Nanum Pen Script have?

Accepted Answer

Nanum Pen Script comes in one weight, Regular (400). Ask for bold and most apps thicken the letters themselves: a faux bold, not a drawn one.

Question 10

Does Nanum Pen Script have English letters?

Accepted Answer

Yes: Nanum Pen Script draws all 52 letters of the English alphabet, so a line that mixes Korean and English can stay in one font.

Question 11

Who designed Nanum Pen Script?

Accepted Answer

Nanum Pen Script was designed by Sandoll Communication. It has been on Google Fonts since May 2012.

Question 12

What fonts are similar to Nanum Pen Script?

Accepted Answer

The most used Korean handwriting fonts besides Nanum Pen Script are Hi Melody, Gaegu and Gamja Flower. See every Handwriting font for Korean.

Nanum Pen Script

Hangul, syllable by syllable

Hangul 한글

As running text

What it covers

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