International Design Talks

Connecting Scripts: Building bridges between Latin and Hangul

Minjoo Ham
Labs 2018
Saturday, 14 April 2018 | 12:00 | Nave
English
Hangul is the writing system that is unique to Korean, having been designed by King Se-jong 571 years ago. In the age of globalization, we are in need of multi-script fonts to produce multi-language documents. Hangul will often be combined with Latin, the most familiar script. How can a hangul typeface be connected to its equivalent latin, without losing its inherent nature?

Minjoo Ham

Designer, typographer and graphic designer
Minjoo Ham is a type designer, typographer and graphic designer from South Korea. She studied graphic design at the Seoul Women’s University (2005-2009), where she discovered her interest in type design. After graduation, she worked for several years at Seoul’s successful S-Core (CoreFont)... Read More