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SEOUL is another pseudo-Asian font, but this time it's modeled after Korean rather than the usual Chinese or Japanese script. The basic design is contemporary, rather than brush-like.
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SEOUL is another pseudo-Asian font, but this time it's modeled after Korean rather than the usual Chinese or Japanese script. The basic design is contemporary, rather than brush-like.
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The basic font, SEOUL CAPS, recreates the uniform weight and width of the Korean letters and borrows or approximates a number of actual forms. The companion font, SEOUL STACKING, can be used to intersperse stacked pairs of letters (as in the sample block above) for a more authentically "Korean" look. To get a stacked pair, you simply type the upper letter in upper case, then the lower letter in lower case. Obviously this is for special effects, not continuous reading. The Read Me file contains instructions for using this unusual font. |
Korean script uses an alphabet of 24 letters. Han'gûl, as it is known, was invented in 1444 and is written horizontally from left to right. What gives it its characteristic bubbly texture is the use of smaller versions of the letters which are clustered to form syllable blocks, rather than same-size letters arranged along a baseline. Spaces are used between words with may be composed of one or more syllables. If you're interested in international scripts, visit Omniglot or read the fascinating little book Typographia polyglotta by George Sadek and Maxim Zhukov (1997, Cooper Union). |
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All SEOUL fonts include caps, numbers, punctuation, and international characters. Accented characters are particularly useful in this font set for creating the right look. |
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SEOUL CAPS is a free download. This copyrighted font is made available for commercial and non-commercial use when downloaded from Harold's Fonts. It is not intended to be copied, shared, sold, or reposted. |
If you like the free SEOUL CAPS font, you'll want the companion STACKING font. With a small effort, you can use it to create the stacked letters to give the font a more "Korean" look. You'll also get an Alternate version of each font with a number of different letterforms, some of which are seen in the sample at the top of this page. The complete set of 4 fonts in your choice of TrueType or Type I for Windows or for Mac for just $5. |
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