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Serif (Myeongjo) · Free for commercial use

KoPub World Batang

KoPub 월드 바탕

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

By KOPUB (한국출판인회의) · Weights 300 · 500 · 700

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KoPub World Batang preview · 3 weights

새로 산 노트북에 문서와 사진을 정리해 두었다

ABCDEFG abcdefg 0123456789

Cyrillic 256Съешь 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 stated; 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
RedistributionNot requiredSharing 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 Council) — free for all users, commercial use permitted. Conservative application (based on 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 (reserved name clause), differing from the web notice — conservative interpretation adopted (D-301). Current distribution at source = KoPub World edition zip (kopus.org).

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(D-301). 원처 현행 배포 = KoPub World판 zip(kopus.org).

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
Hangul jamo254conjoining jamo
CJK unified ideographs6,005Hanja / Chinese characters
Basic Latin94A-Z, digits, punctuation
Latin-1 supplement95accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A128Central/Eastern European letters
Greek48
Cyrillic256
Hiragana93Japanese
Katakana96Japanese
General punctuation21dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 25,971 · Hangul set: full (11,172 syllables).

Technical metrics

Weights
300–700 (3)
File size (representative)
12,013 KB
Units per em
1000
x-height / cap-height (per em)
0.5 / 0.5

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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).