Are these Korean fonts free for commercial use?

Yes, all 51: every one under the SIL Open Font License, which let you use a font in print, on the web, in apps, videos and logos, for clients and in products, at no cost. What they forbid is selling the font file on its own. Each font’s page links its licence file.

Which Korean fonts cover every Hangul syllable?

32 of the 51 fonts here draw all 11,172 modern Hangul syllables. Most of the others draw the 2,350 of KS X 1001, the syllables of everyday Korean, or a few hundred more: a rarer name or word may fall back to another font.

What is a Korean style font?

It can mean a font for Korean itself, as on this page, or Latin letters with the look of Korean signs and K-pop posters. The Korean display faces here draw their own Latin letters to match their Hangul, so English set in Black Han Sans, Jua or Do Hyeon keeps that look.

How do I use a Korean font on a website?

A Korean font holds thousands of characters, often 5 to 20 MB. From Google Fonts it comes cut into a hundred or so small files, and a browser loads only those with the characters a page shows. A font from its maker’s repository should be cut down to the characters you need before you serve it: the OFL allows that, under a name of your own if the font reserves its name.

Korean fonts

51 free fonts for Korean, filed by style: Myeongjo, Gothic, Handwriting, Brush, Display, Pixel and Coding. 43 from Google Fonts and 8 from their makers’ own repositories, every one under the SIL Open Font License. 32 of them draw all 11,172 Hangul syllables.

한국어 · Hangugeo

The line on every card

“The squirrel wants to ride the old wheel”: the sentence Korean type specimens use, with every consonant of Hangul.

Free fonts: 51; 43 on Google Fonts, 8 from their makers
Commercial use: 51 of 51; Every one under the OFL
English letters: 51 of 51; Draw all 52 letters of the alphabet
Weights: 19 of 51; Come in two weights or more

02 / All 51

Every Korean font

Ordered by use: Google Fonts’ ranking first, then the open fonts most starred on GitHub.

Myeongjo 명조

The serif of Korean: thin horizontals, thick verticals and brush-shaped ends. Books, articles and anything formal. · 8 fonts

Gothic 고딕

The sans serif, also called Dotum: strokes of one weight. Korea’s face for screens, signs and interfaces. · 15 fonts

Handwriting 손글씨

Pen, pencil and marker hands, personal and casual. · 7 fonts

Brush 붓글씨

Written with a brush, from the court hand of Gungsuh to rough, quick strokes. · 4 fonts

Display 제목

Heavy and playful faces for titles, posters and thumbnails. · 12 fonts

Pixel 픽셀

Built from square dots, as Hangul was on the screens of the DOS years. · 3 fonts

Coding 코딩

Every Latin letter on one width and every Hangul syllable on two, so code lines up. · 2 fonts

03 / Questions

Before you use one

What people ask before they set a page in one of these fonts.

What is the difference between Myeongjo and Gothic?: They are the serif and the sans serif of Korean. The serif of Korean: thin horizontals, thick verticals and brush-shaped ends. Books, articles and anything formal. The sans serif, also called Dotum: strokes of one weight. Korea’s face for screens, signs and interfaces.
Are these Korean fonts free for commercial use?: Yes, all 51: every one under the SIL Open Font License, which let you use a font in print, on the web, in apps, videos and logos, for clients and in products, at no cost. What they forbid is selling the font file on its own. Each font’s page links its licence file.
Which Korean fonts cover every Hangul syllable?: 32 of the 51 fonts here draw all 11,172 modern Hangul syllables. Most of the others draw the 2,350 of KS X 1001, the syllables of everyday Korean, or a few hundred more: a rarer name or word may fall back to another font.
What is a Korean style font?: It can mean a font for Korean itself, as on this page, or Latin letters with the look of Korean signs and K-pop posters. The Korean display faces here draw their own Latin letters to match their Hangul, so English set in Black Han Sans, Jua or Do Hyeon keeps that look.
How do I use a Korean font on a website?: A Korean font holds thousands of characters, often 5 to 20 MB. From Google Fonts it comes cut into a hundred or so small files, and a browser loads only those with the characters a page shows. A font from its maker’s repository should be cut down to the characters you need before you serve it: the OFL allows that, under a name of your own if the font reserves its name.

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