Korean Type/Font
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I have a book that is in English, German and has now been translated into Korean. Obviously the text won't display correctly in the font's being used in other versions (weiss & helvetica). Is there a specific font I have to use that displays Korean characters?
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book meaning, PDF?
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unlike chinese or japanese, korean is read is a diagonal fashion
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no you gotta close your eyes to read it
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you're thinking of hebrew
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right right...
so i can read and speak hebrew then..
i learn new things everyday..
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bump.
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yo man, u still didnt answer, is it a pdf ? i am assuming its pdf
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if you look at your osx font book, there are stanard korean fonts installed.
there are no specific korean fonts to use. in terms of fonts thats inline with weiss / helv i say use AppleGothic (from standard osx set)
other fonts are more scrip based and they are more olden style. except for headlineA, which is mainly used for modern newspapaer / magazine headlines.
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The book does get put into pdf format, but it is also printed, it's 40 pages. I am on a PC, but I guess the same applies - I just use the standard PC Korean font, there aren't any style choices?
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Actually InDesign seperates the choices at the bottom of my font list - I have a selection of (3)Japanese and (5)Korean fonts.
They all look the same though.
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can you send me samples of the korean fonts ?
like screen cap or something than i can tell you which is more modern or more old style
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yeah, give me a minute.
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Here you go dinky
http://www.imekdesign.com/nt/Kor…The other issue I have is there isn't a bold face in any of these.
The last choice looks bold but it is also more dated looking thean any of the rest.
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so Dotum and Gulim are more modern fonts.
there is no bolding in korean in a font set usually. u have to use other font to do that
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Dotum is more tighter font where as Gulim is more larger placement.
dont mix those fonts together. they are too close and it would seem odd
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cool, thanks.