Serif (Myeongjo) - Free for commercial use
KoPub Batang
KoPub 바탕체
By 문화체육관광부·한국출판인회의. 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/kopub-batang.png
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.
| Use | Verdict | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Commercial use | Allowed | Use in paid work, products, ads, brands |
| Modification | Not allowed | Editing glyphs, subsetting, derivative fonts |
| Redistribution | Not 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 | Conditional | @font-face / app embedding |
License summary (Korean, verified against the primary source)
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).
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 | 94 | consonants and vowels |
| CJK unified ideographs | 4,620 | Hanja / Chinese characters |
| Basic Latin | 94 | A-Z, digits, punctuation |
| Latin-1 supplement | 38 | accented Western European letters |
| Latin Extended-A | 18 | Central/Eastern European letters |
| Greek | 48 | |
| Cyrillic | 66 | |
| Hiragana | 83 | Japanese |
| Katakana | 86 | Japanese |
| General punctuation | 21 | dashes, quotes, middle dot |
Total encoded code points: 17,455 - Hangul set: full.
Technical metrics
- Weights
- 300, 500, 700
- File size (representative)
- -
- Units per em
- -
- x-height / cap-height (per em)
- - / -
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