🇰🇷Hangeulic

Name	Hangeulic
Version	1.005
Latest release	24th May 2024
Inception	May 2024
Supported scripts	Latin NewEng (no diacritics yet) Vietnamese
Other glyphs	No numbers, punctuation or basic symbols
Variants	Regular — 1.003 Chunky — 1.005
Issues	Incomplete parity between typeface weights at present. Only uppercase.
GitHub	github.com/fazzaan/font-hangeulic
Behance	-
Font sites	-

Letters

The NewEng script (mine, not another by the same name), includes all 26 English alphabet letters, plus another 15 borrowed from other scripts and eras.

A Æ B C Ç D E F Φ Þ Đ G Ȝ H Ƕ I J K Ʞ L M N И Ŋ O Œ P Q R S Ʃ T Ч U Ȣ V W Ꝏ/Ѡ X Y Z

a æ b c ç d e f φ þ ð g ȝ h ƕ i j k ʞ l m n и ŋ o œ p q r s ʃ t ч u ȣ v w ꝏ/ѡ x y z

Diacritics

• Single diacritics are made but haven't been anchored correctly yet.

• Kerning of diacritiqued glyphs is inconsistent with bare glyphs.

• Stacked diacritics have not yet been configured.

• Some applications do not render diacritics correctly if they extend too far above the upper line-height boundary. I may need to refactor the glyph scale to accommodate stacked glyphs.

Diacritics (single layer) — Vowels and consonants

Here you can see all the diacritics that are required in NewEng. These serve many other languages too. There are a few missing, such as the tilde of Spanish ñ, which is also used on vowels in some scripts such as Vietnamese.

Vowels

These are all the vowels of NewEng. Yes, there are 11: a æ e i o œ u ȣ w ꝏ y

Consonants

The diacritiqued consonants of NewEng are as such:

c̊	č	ç̌	d̈		f̈	g̊	g̃	ǧ
ȝ̊	ȝ̌	ǰ	ʞ̌	ñ	p̀	q̌	š	s̈
s̈̌	ẗ	ť	ч̌	x̌	ẍ	ẍ̌	z̈	z̈̌

Diacritics (two layers) — Vowels

NewEng also allows most diacritiqued vowels to carry a stress mark. In typeface production, diacritic positioning is not automatic. Here you can see the current state of the diacritics — I have a lot to do. This typeface is a personal project, so it had to be put on pause while I do commissions for other clients.

Vowels

These are all the vowels of NewEng. Yes, there are 11: a æ e i o œ u ȣ w ꝏ y

Vietnamese diacritics — Vowels and Đđ

The 12 Vietnamese vowels are: a â ă e ê i o ô ơ u ư y

All (?) Vietnamese vowels can take any of 6 tones, marked by 5 diacritics: a á à ả ã ạ

This 12×6 produces 72 vowel glyphs, in each case.

Vietnamese also has one modified consonant, "double d": Đ đ

As with all the other diacritics in the previous sections, all Vietnamese diacritics need some dedicated time to adjust their positions and alignments.

Numerals

None yet.

Sample words

For now, I'll show samples of the Chunky version, because that font has a complete glyph set.

Chunky

æþer (aether), çircl (circle)

clōðiŋ (clothing), ƕéðer (whether)

cȣ̂pl (couple), ʃȣld (should), ȣ̊ȝt (ought)

meʞánic (mechanic), téʞnō (techno)

mônþ (month), kíчėn (kitchen)

Regular

æþer (aether), çircl (circle)

clōðiŋ (clothing), ƕéðer (whether)

cȣ̂pl (couple), ʃȣld (should), ȣ̊ȝt (ought)

meʞánic (mechanic), téʞnō (techno)

mônþ (month), kíчėn (kitchen)

Chunky

φṓtograφ (photograph)

p̀sȳʞėdélic (psychedelic)

stróŋg̊er (stronger)

þanks (thanks), mꝏn (moon)

þird (third), fȣ̊rþ (fourth), fifþ (fifth), eiȝtþ (eighth)

Regular

φṓtograφ (photograph)

p̀sȳʞėdélic (psychedelic)

stróŋg̊er (stronger)

þanks (thanks), mꝏn (moon)

þird (third), fȣ̊rþ (fourth), fifþ (fifth), eiȝtþ (eighth)

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To Do

Further development

• refine the shape of several letters

• re-scale the letters so that the diacritics fit inside the line height

• more diacritics, especially for the most common languages

• combined diacritics, especially for scripts like Vietnamese

Fixes

• perhaps rename the font because it's not much like Hangeul at all really. (Actually I have a new handdrawn one that looks like a swooshy blend of Korean Hangeul and Japanese Kana.)

• diacritics need major adjustment. Since starting this font a year ago, I've learnt how to handle diacritics better using FontForge, so this shouldn't be too stressful to handle.

Variants

• ideas for typeface variations -- stylistic exploration

  • experiment with different nib shapes & angles, because this current one is a bit overbearing.

• ideas for font variations -- weighting methods, serifs, italicization, etc

  • could the Regular weight have some varying thicknesses along one axis or some angles?

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