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Nanum fonts

Series of Korean typeface


Series of Korean typeface

FieldValue
nameNanum Gothic
imageNanum Gothic Example.jpg
styleSans-serif
creatorSandoll, Naver
foundryNaver
licenseSIL Open Font License

The Nanum fonts () is a series of open source unicode fonts designed for the Korean language, designed by Sandoll Communications and Fontrix (폰트릭스). It includes a sans serif (gothic), serif (myeongjo), monospace (coding), pen script, and brush script typefaces. It was published and distributed by Naver.

It is the basic Korean font of Ubuntu Linux since version 12.04. The five Nanum fonts are also included in Mac OS X 10.7 Lion.

Variations

Nanum Gothic

It was designed by Sandoll Communications and released in 2008–2011. It has three weights without Italics.

Nanum Gothic Coding

It is similar with Nanum Gothic but is designed for developers to use easily. It was released in 2009. It is the monospaced edition of Nanum Gothic. It has two weights without Italics.

Nanum Myeongjo

It was designed by Fontrix and released in 2008. It has three weights without Italics

Nanum handwriting (brush and pen)

It consists of two types of handwriting, brush and pen. It was included with the Nanum Fonts 3.0 version.

Nanum Gothic Eco and Nanum Myeongjo Eco

It was developed by technical tie-up with Ecofont BV. It was designed to save ink on printers.

References

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