Sans-serif (Gothic) - Free for commercial use
The Circle
동그라미서체
By The Circle Foundation (동그라미재단). 3 weights: 300, 500, 700.
Specimen (live webfont)
다람쥐 헌 쳇바퀴에 타고파
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 0123456789
Static preview image: /preview-samples/donggumi-foundation.png
License verdicts
Free for commercial use; modification 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 | 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)
동그라미재단 라이선스 — 상업적 이용·임베딩·수정·재배포 모두 자유. 폰트 파일 자체의 유료 판매만 금지(로고·CI/BI 사용 시 별도 제약 확인 권장).
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 | 2,350 | 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 | 34 | accented Western European letters |
| Latin Extended-A | 18 | Central/Eastern European letters |
| Greek | 48 | |
| Cyrillic | 66 | |
| Hiragana | 83 | Japanese |
| Katakana | 86 | Japanese |
| General punctuation | 13 | dashes, quotes, middle dot |
Total encoded code points: 3,438 - Hangul set: ks2350.
Technical metrics
- Weights
- 300, 500, 700
- File size (representative)
- 618 KB
- Units per em
- 1000
- x-height / cap-height (per em)
- 0.5 / 0.5
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