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Serif (Myeongjo) · Free for commercial use

Noto Serif KR

노토 세리프 KR

Free for commercial useSerif5 weightsHangul full (11,172 syllables)

By Google / Adobe (구글·어도비) · Weights 200 · 400 · 600 · 700 · 900

Official page / download Korean page (full detail)Markdown

Noto Serif KR preview · 5 weights

지난 주말에 도서관에서 책 세 권을 빌려 왔다

ABCDEFG abcdefg 0123456789

Cyrillic 66Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок
Greek 49Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία

Live webfont served from designnews.kr's own server · static image /preview-samples/noto-serif-kr.png

Use on the web official CDN, no self-hosting needed

Load the distributor's stylesheet and set the font-family in CSS.

HTML — add to <head>

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Serif+KR:wght@200;400;600;700;900&display=swap">

CSS

font-family: "Noto Serif KR", -apple-system, sans-serif;

Official distributor CDN. Version and path may change per the distributor's notice.

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 — free for commercial use, modification, redistribution, and embedding. Selling the font itself is prohibited.

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 — 상업적 이용·수정·재배포·임베드 자유. 폰트 자체 판매는 금지.

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 ideographs8,138Hanja / Chinese characters
Basic Latin94A-Z, digits, punctuation
Latin-1 supplement95accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A30Central/Eastern European letters
Greek49
Cyrillic66
Hiragana93Japanese
Katakana96Japanese
General punctuation32dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 23,124 · Hangul set: full (11,172 syllables).

Technical metrics

Weights
200–900 (5)
File size (representative)
13,792 KB
Units per em
1000
x-height / cap-height (per em)
0.514 / 0.729

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Recommended pairings score = designnews.kr pairing model, 0–100

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).