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Choijeongho Minburi Type Specimen

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2019. 5. 15. 148 pages 115x185 mm Hardcover 9788970599892 KRW 19,000
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Fresh, Solid, and Diverse

A Series Exploring the Fonts by AG Typography Institute

How are font types designed? What balance and aesthetic do they embody? Where do they perform best in the most meaningful way? The AG Type Specimen Series seeks answers to these questions, delving into the design and application of fonts created by the AG Typography Institute.

The ChoiJeongho series is the story of the results of a project to recreate the original font of Choi Jeong-ho, a first-generation font designer, type designer, and researcher who designed and studied Korean fonts throughout his life. “This is the third font collection of the Choijeongho Minburi Type Specimen, following the Super Black Gothic Type Specimen and the Choijeongho Type Specimen. We will continue the series with pro versions of the fonts in the future.

A project to recreate the original Minburi design by the first-generation Hangeul designer Choi Jeong-ho

Minburi is a Minburi family font for text designed by Hangul designer Choi Jeong-ho in his later years. A part of the original design is included in the original text, and AG Choijeongho Minburi Std. is a digital font recreated based on 1,058 finished characters out of 1,353 original characters. This book contains the overall story of the font, including the overall shape, size, proportion, space, width, stroke-by-stroke feel, and rules of use for 2,574 Korean characters, 298 Roman characters, and 782 symbolic characters including punctuation marks. It also provides a guide for users to use the font more beautifully through the engraving part, which shows various applications of the font.

In order to design the contents and cover of the book with the feel of the fonts, post-processing that has not been tried in other books and the choice of paper to convey the feel of the fonts by hand were also taken care of. As a work of art, it will be a book that will bring value to readers over time.

Ku Mo-a

After graduating from Konkuk University, she worked at Sandol Communication, a Korean type foundry, for five years, and as a researcher and team leader at AG Typography Research Center, she worked on several typeface projects, including “Sandoll LateSpring,” the Maru project “Maru Buri,” and the 87MM brand’s exclusive font “87MM ILSANG.” She has been conducting research and projects on screens and fonts since “AG Choijeongho Screen” and has been working on typeface design based on calligraphy.

Park Min-gyu

He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York and the Paju Typography School. He has been fascinated with typography since he was young, living in Canada, where he designed the ParkMingyu typeface and worked at the AG Typography Institute, where he developed the AG Choijeongho Minburi Std. He is currently working as a freelancer.

Joachim Müller-Lancé

He graduated with honors from the Basel School of Design in Switzerland and studied art at the Cooper Union in New York, USA. He worked as a senior designer for The Understanding Business and Barclays Global Investors, and organized cultural exhibitions and publications for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In 1993, he won a gold medal at the Morisawa Typeface Competition in Lancecerro. He is currently the head of Kame Design Studio, where he focuses on graphic design, type design, and animation. He is active in Japan, Belgium, Germany, China, and elsewhere.

AG Typography Institute

AG Typography Institute was founded in 2012 as an affiliated institute of Ahn Graphics. We designs and develops typefaces based on in-depth studies, and aims to create new typeface culture and trend.

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