Gowun Dodum(고운돋움) is a humanist sans-serif typeface with a touch of hand movement. Gowun means ‘neat and delicate’ in Korean and this typeface has a warm and friendly impression. Dodum is the style name for sans-serif Hangeul text typeface.
It is designed especially for Hangeul typography, but it also includes Latin alphabet as a part of KS X 1001. This typeface has a regular weight at this moment.
Basic Information
Gowun Dodum(고운돋움) is a revised name of Gowun Hangeul-dodum(고운한글돋움) which was released in 2010. It consists of the full set of modern Hangeul syllables(11,172 characters), Google Latin plus set, and punctuations and symbols in KS X 1001.
• Gowun Dodum-Regular was released in 2010.
• The Latin is redesigned for Ver.2.0 in 2020.
• The full set of modern Hangeul syllables(11,172 characters) is completed by adding 8822 Hangeul syllables in 2020.
• There is a sibling family, Gowun Batang(고운바탕)
Yanghee Ryu is an independent type designer. Since she released ‘Gowun-Hangeul‘ in 2010, she has participated in a lot of personal and commercial typeface development projects. She keeps working on designing Korean fonts that are well-harmonized with multiple languages.
Open source details
Gowun Dodum is available via an open source license. You're free to use it with your Adobe Fonts account just as you would any other font in the Adobe Fonts library. For information regarding other uses of Gowun Dodum, see copyright and license details for Gowun Dodum Regular.
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How to Use
You may encounter slight variations in the name of this font, depending on where you use it. Here’s what to look for.
Desktop
In application font menus, this font will display:
{{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_family_name}} {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.preferred_subfamily_name}}Web
To use this font on your website, use the following CSS:
font-family: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.family.css_font_stack.replace('"', '').replace('",', ', ')}};
font-style: italicnormal;
font-weight: {{familyCtrl.selectedVariation.font.web.weight}};
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