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KoPub Batang

KoPub 바탕체

Free for commercial useSerif3 weightsHangul full (11,172 syllables)

By Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism / Korea Publishers Society (문화체육관광부·한국출판인회의) · Weights 300 · 500 · 700

Official page / download Korean page (full detail)Markdown

KoPub Batang preview · 3 weights

주문한 커피가 나오자 자리로 가져와 앉았다

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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 not allowed; no attribution required; the font itself may not be sold; web embedding conditional. 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✕Not 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△Conditional@font-face / app embedding

License summary

KoPub font license (Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism · Korean Publishers Society) — free for all users, commercial use permitted. Conservative application (based on the web notice): modification or alteration without prior approval is prohibited, embedding in web services or programs requires separate approval, and paid sale or transfer of the font itself is prohibited. The Terms PDF (Article 4) permits modification and redistribution (with a reserved-name clause), which differs from the web notice — the conservative interpretation is adopted. Original distribution = kopus.org Kopub 2.0 page; a KOPUB2.0 zip direct distribution exists (verified on 2026-08-07, D-301 correction; the hosted asset is a fonts-archive mirror = confirmed as the same file).

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)

KoPub 서체 라이선스(문화체육관광부·한국출판인회의) — 모든 사용자 무료, 상업적 사용 가능. 보수 적용(웹 안내 기준): 사전승인 없는 수정·변형 금지, 웹서비스·프로그램 임베딩은 별도 승인 필요, 폰트 자체 유료 판매·양도 금지. 약관 PDF(제4조)는 수정·재배포 허용(유보명 조항)으로 웹 안내와 상이 — 보수 해석 채택. 원처 배포 = kopus.org Kopub 2.0 페이지 KOPUB2.0 zip 직배포 실존(2026-08-07 실측·D-301 정정, 적재 자산은 fonts-archive 미러 = 동일 파일 확인).

Glyph coverage measured from the font file

Unicode blockEncodedNote
Hangul syllables11,17211,172 = full Unicode block; 2,350 = KS X 1001 set
Hangul compatibility jamo94consonants and vowels
CJK unified ideographs4,620Hanja / Chinese characters
Basic Latin94A-Z, digits, punctuation
Latin-1 supplement38accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A18Central/Eastern European letters
Greek48
Cyrillic66
Hiragana83Japanese
Katakana86Japanese
General punctuation21dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 17,455 · Hangul set: full (11,172 syllables).

Technical metrics

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

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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).