Serif (Myeongjo) - Free for commercial use
Chosun Centennial
조선100년체
By Chosun Ilbo (조선일보). 1 weight: 400.
Specimen (live webfont)
다람쥐 헌 쳇바퀴에 타고파
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 0123456789
Static preview image: /preview-samples/chosun-centennial.png
License verdicts
Free for commercial use; modification not allowed; redistribution allowed; no attribution required; the font itself may not be sold; web embedding allowed. Verdicts are designnews.kr's reading of the distributor's license text (Korean summary below); check the official page before use.
| Use | Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial use | Allowed | Use in paid work, products, ads, brands |
| Modification | Not allowed | Editing glyphs, subsetting, derivative fonts |
| Redistribution | Allowed | Sharing or bundling the font files |
| Attribution | Not required | Whether credit to the rights holder is required |
| Paid resale | Not allowed | Selling the font itself |
| Web embedding | Allowed | @font-face / app embedding |
License summary (Korean, verified against the primary source)
지적재산권은 방일영문화재단에 있으며, 조선일보가 공식 배포처를 통해 개인 및 기업 사용자에게 무료로 제공하는 서체입니다. 누구나 자유롭게 사용하고 다른 사람에게 재배포할 수 있으며, 인쇄·웹·영상·임베딩 등 상업적 사용이 가능합니다. 다만 복사 또는 배포에 대한 대가를 요구하거나 폰트를 수정해서 판매할 수 없고, 배포된 형태 그대로 사용해야 합니다.
Legal wording is kept in Korean on purpose; it is not machine-translated. The verdict table above is the structured reading of this text.
Glyph coverage (measured from the font file)
| Unicode block | Encoded | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Hangul syllables | 11,172 | 11,172 = full Unicode block; 2,350 = KS X 1001 set |
| Hangul compatibility jamo | 93 | consonants and vowels |
| Basic Latin | 94 | A-Z, digits, punctuation |
| Latin-1 supplement | 39 | accented Western European letters |
| Latin Extended-A | 18 | Central/Eastern European letters |
| Greek | 48 | |
| Cyrillic | 66 | |
| Hiragana | 83 | Japanese |
| Katakana | 87 | Japanese |
| General punctuation | 16 | dashes, quotes, middle dot |
Total encoded code points: 12,306 - Hangul set: full.
Technical metrics
- Weights
- 400
- File size (representative)
- -
- Units per em
- 1000
- x-height / cap-height (per em)
- 0.468 / 0.692
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