Effortless Korean with Hangulish · our invention

About the lab and credits · Effortless Korean

Hangul Engineering Lab · 한글공학연구소

Hangul, treated as a living system.

The lab keeps the original tables, the experiments, and the fonts in one place. Hangulish and Hangul 2.0 are design studies we are building in the open, and we label what is original, what is restored, and what is still a concept.

Pronunciations are suggested readings, not official or legal names. Hangul 2.0 is a concept, not a finished standard.

Four-vertex structure with one inner sphere and reflected light
Lab identity concept · four vertices, one sphere, reflected light
Original · source table

Hangulish

Original Hangulish reference table

The original table pairing Latin consonants with Hangul vowels.

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Lab studies

Hangul 2.0 study card concept
Hangul 2.0 study cardA study artifact for the next Hangul engineering direction.Concept preview · Not for sale
Hangul Engineering Lab sticker concept
Lab identity stickerA small identity proof for Hangul Engineering Lab supporters.Concept preview · Not for sale
Credits · 이어받은 것들

Standing on good shoulders.

Hangulish and Hangul 2.0 are a design study that continues what others began. Credits are acknowledgements, not licences.

King Sejong and the Hunminjeongeum

Everything starts with the alphabet made so that ordinary people could write. We carry that spirit, 홍익인간, to benefit people widely, into a new door for the world's names.

IEWT Design

The original Hangulish and Hangul 2.0 tables on this site come from the IEWT Design archive. See the source tables

NAVER Nanum · Pen, Brush, Barunpen

The Pen, Brush and Soft pen styles are built from the letters of Nanum Pen, Nanum Brush and Nanum Barunpen (© NHN Corporation / NAVER; designed by Sandoll Communications and YoonDesign). We scaled and recomposed them into Hangul syllable blocks, and renamed the result. It is used under the NAVER Nanum font license: modification and commercial use are allowed, and the font file is never sold on its own. Font licences

Pretendard

The Clean, Light, Bold, Marker, Round and Buri styles use our own outlines. Its block sizes were measured from Pretendard (SIL Open Font License 1.1, © 2021 Kil Hyung-jin); no Pretendard outlines are included.

NAVER · Hunminjeongeum

We also read the annotated Hunminjeongeum through NAVER's full-text edition, which helped us check the original text.

Hangul Engineering Lab · 한글공학연구소

The lab keeps the tables, the experiments and the fonts together, and labels what is original, what is restored, and what is still a concept.