October 12, 2006
Font Text Designing Booming in South Korea
Now that text-writing has become digital, design-savvy Koreans have paved the way for a growing market for fonts, the style that is used in text design. According to Inside JoongAng Daily, revenue for buying fonts to use on blogs is increasing and graphics firms are developing more Korean fonts.
... "Some of the more popular fonts are those based on the handwriting of celebrities. These "star fonts" took two years to plan and develop, and have been in service since autumn of last year for the Internet and will be available for mobile platforms later this year. Fans of actresses Lee Hyo-lee and Moon Geun-young, or rock star Yoon Do-hyun can choose to "write" like their idols.
... Pyun Suk-hoon, head of Yoon Design, one of Korea's largest commercial typography-developing graphics companies, said that these trends show that fonts are now considered a fashion. Mr. Pyun said that since mobile phones are becoming more technologically advanced, in the future we won't even have to make separate Web fonts because digital platforms will support graphics with fine detail."
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