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Sans-serif (Gothic) · Free for commercial use

The Circle

동그라미서체

Free for commercial useSans3 weightsHangul KS X 1001 (2,350 syllables)

By The Circle Foundation (동그라미재단) · Weights 300 · 500 · 700

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The Circle preview · 3 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 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✓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

Donggwarami Foundation License — commercial use, embedding, modification, and redistribution are all permitted. Only paid sale of the font files themselves is prohibited (when using for logos or CI/BI, checking for separate restrictions is recommended).

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)

동그라미재단 라이선스 — 상업적 이용·임베딩·수정·재배포 모두 자유. 폰트 파일 자체의 유료 판매만 금지(로고·CI/BI 사용 시 별도 제약 확인 권장).

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 supplement34accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A18Central/Eastern European letters
Greek48
Cyrillic66
Hiragana83Japanese
Katakana86Japanese
General punctuation13dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 3,438 · Hangul set: KS X 1001 (2,350 syllables).

Technical metrics

Weights
300–700 (3)
File size (representative)
618 KB
Units per em
1000
x-height / cap-height (per em)
0.5 / 0.5

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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).