Serif (Myeongjo) - Free for commercial use
Kim jung chul Myungjo
김정철 명조
By Junglim Architecture (YoonDesign Inc.) (정림건축(제작 윤디자인)). 3 weights: 300, 400, 700.
Specimen (live webfont)
다람쥐 헌 쳇바퀴에 타고파
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog 0123456789
Static preview image: /preview-samples/kimjungchul-myungjo.png
License verdicts
Free for commercial use; modification not allowed; redistribution conditional; no attribution required; the font itself may not be sold; web embedding not stated in the license. 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 | Conditional | 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 | Not stated in license | @font-face / app embedding |
License summary (Korean, verified against the primary source)
정림건축 창업자 김정철 서체 3종(명조·고딕·손글씨) 중 명조. 대한건축사협회(사용 업무협약) 공지 229814 원문 4조항: ①모든 지식재산권은 정림건축에 있음 ②유료 판매 및 복사·배포의 대가로 요금 부과·수령 불가 ③정림건축 이외 임의 수정·편집 불가, 배포되는 형태 그대로 사용 ④서체 가이드라인 숙지·아이덴티티 훼손 주의. 무료 배포·상업적 사용 제한 문구 없음(무료 조건 하 사용 가능). 임베딩 언급 없음. Light/Regular/Bold 3굵기.
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 | 17 | dashes, quotes, middle dot |
Total encoded code points: 12,276 - Hangul set: full.
Technical metrics
- Weights
- 300, 400, 700
- File size (representative)
- 11,843 KB
- Units per em
- -
- x-height / cap-height (per em)
- - / -
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