The Korean Edition of LXGW WenKai.
LXGW WenKai KR is an open-source font derived from Fontworks' Klee One, a script font handwritten by pencil or pen and originally designed by Francis Chow. This font is made for Korean typography and contains a complete set of modern Hangul syllables and a few Hanjas. It also provides monospaced version for coding.
- All modern Hangul syllables defined by Unicode (11,172 characters);
- All Hanjas in KS X 1001 and KS X 1002 (4,620 + 2,856 = 7,476 characters);
- All CJK ideographs in IICore (9,810 characters);
- Most of Latin characters, punctuations and symbols in LXGW WenKai.
You can download the latest released fonts in Releases page. You can also download the pre-built font files in fonts/TTF folder.
You can run the complete build process with make: make build. The current source code can only be run on Unix-like systems and requires Python 3 to be installed.
This font is distributed under SIL Open Font License 1.1.
According to the license, you can use, embed, modify and redistribute this font freely and free of charge, even commercial uses.
- You cannot sell this font itself.
- You cannot redistribute this font under the license except SIL OFL 1.1.
- Original designer: Francis Chow
- Original font's type foundry: Fontworks (present Monotype K.K.)
- Derivative developer: LXGW
- @Partyb0ssishere and his CEF Fonts CJK provided the template for Hangul syllable glyphs.
- Some hanja glyphs were borrowed from Yshi Pen Shuti developed by @Steve-Yuu.
- Iosevka and Nerd-Fonts provided Powerline symbols for monospaced version.
- Box drawing symbols, ideographic description characters and some dingbats were borrowed from Source Han Sans.
- Aaron Bell and @NightFurySL2001 provided and optimized the build system.