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Meet ‘Ahnsangsoo 2012’ in book form

Ahn Sang-soo’s signature font, Ahnsangsoo 2012, is an expanded version of Ahnsangsoo 2012, a book that introduces the font Ahnsangsoo 2012, and is a revised version of Ahnsangsoo 2012 Type Specimen published in 2013. Ahnsangsoo 2012 is the first font released by the ag Typography Institute, and it first appeared in 1985 as an issue of Donga Science. It has been reorganized from a three-bullet to a multi-bullet non-square type, adding more type families, and introducing ‘Hangeul group kerning’ for the first time in Korea. Also included are various works by Ahn Sang-soo, such as posters and logotypes that used Ahnsangsoo in the early days. Ahnsangsoo 2012 Type Specimen is a meaningful attempt at a full-fledged introduction to the font. In addition, the revised edition includes both Korean and English fonts to broaden the range of readers.

About Ahnsangsoo

Ahnsangsoo was designed by designer Ahn Sang-soo in 1985 as the title of Donga Science and is a three-level combinatorial non-square type font that derives 11,172 characters by combining 19 initial characters, 21 odd characters, and 27 base characters. The Hangeul characters are geometric shapes such as vertical lines, horizontal lines, oblique lines, and gardens, and are characterized by the columns of the holy characters that extend out and meet in the middle of the base. It was introduced in 1991 as a bundled font in the Hangeul computer ‘Daewoo Hangeul’ and was released in 2004 as the ‘Suh Series’ of Ahn Sang-soo’s typefaces through the ‘Hangeul Design Institute’. After the first edition in 2006, in 2012, it was reorganized into a multivalued font by correcting the shapes of Hangeul consonants, romanization, and numbers to make them easier to read, expanding the font family from three to five, and applying Hangeul group kerning for the first time in Korea.