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Sans-serif (Gothic) · Free for commercial use

Kakao Small Sans

카카오 작은글씨

Free for commercial useSans3 weightsHangul full (11,172 syllables)

By Kakao Corp. (카카오) · Weights 300 · 400 · 700

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Kakao Small Sans preview · 3 weights

회의 자료는 금요일 오전까지 메일로 보내면 된다

ABCDEFG abcdefg 0123456789

Greek 2Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία
Kanaいろはにほへと ちりぬるを アイウエオ

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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

SIL Open Font License 1.1 (official GitHub kakao/kakao-font OFL.txt) — free for commercial use, modification, and redistribution; sale of the font by itself is prohibited (OFL condition). Copyright 2024 Kakao Corp.

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 Open Font License 1.1(공식 GitHub kakao/kakao-font OFL.txt) — 상업적 이용·수정·재배포 자유, 폰트 자체 단독 판매 금지(OFL 조건). Copyright 2024 Kakao Corp.

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 supplement95accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A24Central/Eastern European letters
Greek2
Hiragana83Japanese
Katakana86Japanese
General punctuation23dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 17,487 · Hangul set: full (11,172 syllables).

Technical metrics

Weights
300–700 (3)
File size (representative)
4,643 KB
Units per em
1000
x-height / cap-height (per em)
0.57 / 0.739

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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).