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Description

Source Han Serif is a modern Mincho-style typeface family, which is a counterpart to Source Han Sans. The family has seven weights. It covers a wide range of usage from composition of body texts to display lines. Each of the Source Han Serif KR fonts have approximately 25,000 glyphs needed for Korean. If you need to use glyphs for the other East Asian languages, please use the separate set: Source Han Serif - Pan-CJK Korean instead.

Version: 2.003
Korean: All contemporary (11,172) and 500 high-frequency archaic hangul syllables, conjoining hangul jamo (with full archaic hangul support), all KS X 1001 and KS X 1002 hanja (7,476), 466 additional hanja

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Adobe Originals

The Adobe Originals program started in 1989 as an in-house type foundry at Adobe, brought together to create original typefaces of exemplary design quality, technical fidelity, and aesthetic longevity.

Today the Type team’s mission is to make sophisticated and even experimental typefaces that explore the possibilities of design and technology. Typefaces released as Adobe Originals are the result of years of work and study, regarded as industry standards for the ambition and quality of their development.

Open source details

Source Han Serif - Korean Subset 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 Source Han Serif - Korean Subset, see copyright and license details for Source Han Serif KR ExtraLight, Source Han Serif KR Light, Source Han Serif KR Regular, Source Han Serif KR Medium, Source Han Serif KR SemiBold, Source Han Serif KR Bold, and Source Han Serif KR Heavy.

Licensing Information
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How to Use

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Desktop

In application font menus, this font will display:

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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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