Malgun Gothic is a Korean

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

 sans-serif

Sans-serif

In typography, a sans-serif, sans serif or san serif typeface is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without"....

 typeface

Typeface

In typography, a typeface is the artistic representation or interpretation of characters; it is the way the type looks. Each type is designed and there are thousands of different typefaces in existence, with new ones being developed constantly....

 developed by Sandoll Communications, with hinting by Monotype Imaging, as a replacement of Dotum

Dotum

Dotum is a Korean Truetype sans-serif font, the latin shape is similar to Hevetica. Version 5.00 of the font is provided as part of Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008....

 and Gulim as the default system font for the Korean language

Korean language

Korean is the official language of the country Korea, in both South and North. It is also one of the two official languages in the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture in People's Republic of China. There are about 78 million Korean speakers worldwide. In the 15th century, a national writing...

 version of Windows Vista

Windows Vista

Windows Vista is an operating system released in several variations developed by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, tablet PCs, and media center PCs...

. It was first shipped with Windows Vista, being available to download later for Windows Server 2008 and Windows XP

Windows XP

Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...

 users.

The font has received wide acclaim from Korean users.

Characteristics

The font uses Segoe UI

Segoe UI

Segoe is a Humanist typeface family that is best known for its usage by Microsoft. The company uses Segoe in their online and printed marketing materials, including recent logos for a number of products...

 for Latin text, while the Korean glyphs are created based on the typeface of Hunminjeongeum, and streamlined with modern form of characters as well as upright and well-regulated strokes. The font supports KS X 1001

KS X 1001

KS X 1001 is a South Korean coded character set standard to represent hangul and hanja characters on a computer. It is arranged as 94×94 table , therefore its code points are pairs of integers 1–94...

 character set, but unlike Dotum and Gulim, there are no Han ideographic glyphs (Windows will pull from the Gulim hanja set instead), and the fonts don't include half-width fixed Latin glyphs. Hanja designed for Malgun by ChinaType Design, Monotype Imaging Inc. are in existence and will be released to complete the set sometime in the future. The glyphs aren't rounded at terminals.

Windows Vista includes two roman weights of the font.

See also

• East Asian gothic typeface
• New Gulim
  New Gulim
  New Gulim is a sans-serif type unicode font designed especially for the Korean-language script, designed by HanYang System Co., Limited . It is an expanded version of Hanyang Gulrim ....
  
  
• Sans-serif
  Sans-serif
  In typography, a sans-serif, sans serif or san serif typeface is one that does not have the small projecting features called "serifs" at the end of strokes. The term comes from the French word sans, meaning "without"....
  
  
• Microsoft
  Microsoft
  Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
  
  
• List of CJK fonts
• Meiryo
  Meiryo
  is a Japanese sans-serif gothic typeface. Microsoft bundled Meiryo with Office Mac 2008 as part of the standard install, and it replaces MS Gothic as the default system font for Vista on Japanese systems....
  
  
• Microsoft JhengHei
  Microsoft JhengHei
  Microsoft JhengHei is a sans-serif typeface included in Windows Vista and later and Microsoft Office 2007. It follows the Standard Form of National Characters prescribed by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of China and is intended to be used in Traditional Chinese language environments...
  
  
• Microsoft YaHei
  Microsoft YaHei
  Microsoft YaHei is a sans-serif gothic typeface created by Founder Electronics and Monotype under commission from Microsoft. Hinting for the font was undertaken by Monotype Imaging....
  
  

External links

• Microsoft Typography: Malgun Gothic
• Korean ClearType fonts for Windows XP
• United States Design Patent 528,589 covers Malgun Gothic
• United States Design Patent 521,055 covers Malgun Gothic Bold
• Sandoll Communications
• Sandoll 2008 brochure contains info on Malgun Gothic