Pretendard

프리텐다드

Free for commercial useSans9 weightsHangul full (11,172 syllables)

By Hyungjin Kil (길형진) · Weights 100 · 200 · 300 · 400 · 500 · 600 · 700 · 800 · 900

Official page / download Korean page (full detail)Markdown

Pretendard preview · 9 weights

Size46px

주문한 커피가 나오자 자리로 가져와 앉았다

ABCDEFG abcdefg 0123456789

Cyrillic 254Съешь ещё этих мягких французских булок

Greek 121Ξεσκεπάζω την ψυχοφθόρα βδελυγμία

Live webfont served from designnews.kr's own server · static image /preview-samples/pretendard.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://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/orioncactus/pretendard@v1.3.9/dist/web/variable/pretendardvariable.css">

CSS

font-family: "Pretendard Variable", -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.

Use	Verdict	Meaning
Commercial use	✓Allowed	Use in paid work, products, ads, brands
Modification	✓Allowed	Editing glyphs, subsetting, derivative fonts
Redistribution	✓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	✓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 block	Encoded	Note
Hangul syllables	11,172	11,172 = full Unicode block; 2,350 = KS X 1001 set
Hangul compatibility jamo	52	consonants and vowels
Basic Latin	94	A-Z, digits, punctuation
Latin-1 supplement	95	accented Western European letters
Latin Extended-A	127	Central/Eastern European letters
Greek	121
Cyrillic	254
Hiragana	90	Japanese
Katakana	94	Japanese
General punctuation	71	dashes, quotes, middle dot

Total encoded code points: 14,336 · Hangul set: full (11,172 syllables).

Technical metrics

Weights: 100–900 (9)
File size (representative): 2,662 KB
Units per em: 2048
x-height / cap-height (per em): 0.5303 / 0.707

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