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Serif (Myeongjo) · Free for commercial use

Chosun Centennial

조선100년체

Free for commercial useSerif1 weightHangul full (11,172 syllables)

By Chosun Ilbo (조선일보) · Weights 400

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Chosun Centennial preview · 1 weights

정 참판 양반댁 규수 큰 교자 타고 시집가는 날

ABCDEFG abcdefg 0123456789

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

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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.

UseVerdictMeaning
Commercial use✓AllowedUse in paid work, products, ads, brands
Modification✕Not allowedEditing glyphs, subsetting, derivative fonts
Redistribution✓AllowedSharing or bundling the font files
Attribution✓Not requiredWhether credit to the rights holder is required
Paid resale✕Not allowedSelling the font itself
Web embedding✓Allowed@font-face / app embedding

License summary

The intellectual property rights belong to the Bang Il-Young Cultural Foundation, and the font is provided free of charge to individual and corporate users by The Chosun Ilbo through its official distribution channels. Anyone may freely use it and redistribute it to others, and commercial use in print, web, video, embedding, and other contexts is permitted. However, you may not demand compensation for copying or distribution, nor sell a modified version of the font, and it must be used in the form in which it was distributed.

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)

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.

Glyph coverage measured from the font file

Unicode blockEncodedNote
Hangul syllables11,17211,172 = full Unicode block; 2,350 = KS X 1001 set
Hangul compatibility jamo93consonants and vowels
Basic Latin94A-Z, digits, punctuation
Latin-1 supplement39accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A18Central/Eastern European letters
Greek48
Cyrillic66
Hiragana83Japanese
Katakana87Japanese
General punctuation16dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 12,306 · Hangul set: full (11,172 syllables).

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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Recommended pairings score = designnews.kr pairing model, 0–100

Data: font name, weights and glyph coverage are extracted from the font file; license verdicts are recorded from the distributor's own license text. Corrections: contact (include the primary-source URL).