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Serif (Myeongjo) · Free for commercial use

Bookend Batang

북엔드 바탕

Free for commercial useSerif2 weightsHangul KS X 1001 (2,350 syllables)

By Bookend ((주)북엔드) · Weights 400 · 600

Official page / download Korean page (full detail)Markdown

Bookend Batang preview · 2 weights

지난 주말에 도서관에서 책 세 권을 빌려 왔다

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Cyrillic 66Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок
Greek 48Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία

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License verdicts

License verdicts for this font have not been recorded yet; read the Korean summary and the official page.

UseVerdictMeaning
Commercial useNot verifiedUse in paid work, products, ads, brands
ModificationNot verifiedEditing glyphs, subsetting, derivative fonts
RedistributionNot verifiedSharing or bundling the font files
AttributionNot verifiedWhether credit to the rights holder is required
Paid resaleNot verifiedSelling the font itself
Web embeddingNot verified@font-face / app embedding

License summary

SIL Open Font License (OFL) — Intellectual property rights belong to Bookend Co., Ltd. Provided free of charge to all users, commercial use permitted. Usable for print, web, video, packaging, embedding (font embedding within websites and program servers, E-book), and BI/CI. Under the OFL, modification/duplication/distribution of the font files is permitted, but paid sale is prohibited. Paid sale or distorted modification of the font itself is prohibited (original text recorded on 2026-08-07).

English translation of designnews.kr's Korean license record, which was verified against the distributor's own license text. The verdict table above is the structured reading of that record; check the official page before use.

Korean original (verified record)

SIL 오픈 폰트 라이선스(OFL) — 지적재산권은 (주)북엔드에 있음. 모든 사용자에게 무료 제공, 상업적 이용 가능. 인쇄·웹·영상·포장지·임베딩(웹사이트 및 프로그램 서버 내 폰트 탑재, E-book)·BI/CI 사용 가능. OFL에 따라 폰트 파일의 수정/복제/배포 가능하나 유료 판매는 금지. 글꼴 자체의 유료 판매·왜곡 변형 금지(2026-08-07 원문 채록).

Glyph coverage measured from the font file

Unicode blockEncodedNote
Hangul syllables2,35011,172 = full Unicode block; 2,350 = KS X 1001 set
Hangul compatibility jamo93consonants and vowels
Basic Latin94A-Z, digits, punctuation
Latin-1 supplement32accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A18Central/Eastern European letters
Greek48
Cyrillic66
Hiragana83Japanese
Katakana86Japanese
General punctuation14dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 12,258 · Hangul set: KS X 1001 (2,350 syllables).

Technical metrics

Weights
400–600 (2)
File size (representative)
1,411 KB
Units per em
1000
x-height / cap-height (per em)
0.512 / 0.512

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