Korean fonts makes use of two writing systems known as Hangul and Hanja. Hangul is the syllabic writing system used in Korea. Hanja refers to the Chinese ideograph characters used in the typical Korean font. Ascender’s Korean fonts support Hangul and Hanja characters. The primary character set support is the KSC 5601 standard. This character set includes 17,100 characters.

Styles

Ascender provides two main type styles for Korean fonts which are similar to serif and sans serif style for Latin fonts. Mincho is a Japanese font style that has small serifs at the end of strokes and is used extensively for book and newspaper publishing The Mincho style would be similar to Times New Roman. This same style is called Sung for Chinese fonts. Korean fonts that are in the Gothic style feature plain strokes with little or no serifs, similar to the Arial typeface. Gothic Korean font styles work well for on-screen legibility.

Unicode

Ascender has extensive experience providing Korean fonts in variety of formats and encodings. The most common encoding that developers utilize for Korean fonts and other CJK fonts is Unicode. Unicode is an encoding standard which includes many characters, including Unified Han Ideographs and others essential for writing Asian languages. Although Unicode has been the preferred method for CJK and Korean font encoding, Ascender has also delivered font data in other encodings, including Microsoft’s Shift JIS.

Please contact us to discuss with us your needs for Korean multilingual fonts.