Hangul Typography
ハングル・タイポグラフィ / 1446– / 1980s– / Style / Type Design
The design culture of Hangul, a script that maps the structure of sound into geometry. The 1446 Hunminjeongeum set out its combinatory principles; contemporary designers extend them in experiments like talnemokkol, breaking the square frame.
Geometric assembly of phonemes / The square frame and its dismantling / The figurative quality of consonants / Systematic combination
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- the design thinking of the Hunminjeongeum / Ahn Sang-soo's talnemokkol / Hangul lettering culture