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Latin and numeral portion of some Hangul (Korean) font
Posted by whoiam989 in
16 Aug 2011 — 2:50am
16 Aug 2011 — 2:50am
Look at this sample. This is a pair of serif and sans serif - or batang and dotum - (Called 고운한글 (Go-un Hangul) in Korean) designed by Ryu Yanghee. They have the most feminine aproach in all the Hangul typefaces.
But I have question: Where were the Latin and numeral portions of the fonts came from? I tried MyFonts' What the Font and several other font identifier sites, but couldn't find exact matches. Were those portions designed by Ms. Ryu herself? Or, were those came from existing typefaces not listed on those sites? (Like Panno and Gotham on MyFonts)
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16 Aug 2011 — 6:33pm
Looks Goudy-inspired for the serif and possibly the sans as well.
17 Aug 2011 — 7:21am
I hope Pieter van Rosmalen, designer of the Latin portion of South Korea's road sign typeface (or Panno), and also the typo-geek, should help.
19 Aug 2011 — 4:23am
Hello Jo Seonghyeon,
I am afraid I can’t help you with this. I think the best way is to ask the designer. In the pdf you see an e-mailaddress: rionss@chol.com
Good luck!
Pieter
19 Aug 2011 — 7:20am
Dank je anyway. In fact, she has a twitter account (@rionns), but is inactive since early May this year. But I'll try anyway.
19 Aug 2011 — 10:07am
Here's the serif sample compared to Goudy Old Style in red.
27 Aug 2011 — 3:56am
Yeah, serif looks more like Goudy, except that capital Q. Now, what about sans?
8 Sep 2011 — 6:29am
No answer about the sans yet. Similar font, anyone?
29 Sep 2011 — 4:50am
I e-mailed Sandoll, the distributor of Go-un fonts. And returned mail said that the Latin and numeral portions were made with references to Garamond, Goudy, Times, etc. for batang/serif ones and Helvetica, Fedra Sans, Humania[sic, I guess?], etc. for dotum/sans ones.
I don't want to close this thread just with this. So let me ask something. We learned the serif ones are close to Goudy Old Style. Then, which Latin sans serif font is close to Go-un Hangul Dotum's Latin and numeral portions? Helvetica is unlikely. I guess it's one of those two remaining humanist sans serif fonts, but the shape of glyphs is slightly different from that of Fedra Sans. (Especially capital M, etc) Any ideas?
6 Nov 2012 — 9:28am
What happened with this? Did they in fact do something unethical?
hhp
7 Nov 2012 — 7:46am
I don't know. May be she was looking for some... inspiration...?
7 Nov 2012 — 9:36am
Would somebody like to tell Sandoll it's not OK?
hhp
15 Dec 2012 — 3:45am
So when they released Sandoll Neo series, they emphasised that they have officially licensed Guardian Sans for Gothic Neo1 and Lyon Text for Myeongjo Neo1. But I know, it's all bitter.