In some ways, it shares greater similarity with Western writing systems because it is constructed from a phonetic alphabet. The Hangul script is distinct from Chinese Hanzi and Japanese Kanji characters. Last year, Google engineers experimented with different approaches to slicing fonts into smaller subsets, and found that certain techniques had very good results that enabled this launch. We've always wanted to offer CJK fonts, and over the years we've worked on foundational technologies such as WOFF2 and CSS3 unicode-range in order to make this possible. While some of the fonts themselves have been available in beta for years now, we introduced official support for Korean earlier this month after devising a more efficient means of serving Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) font files, which have very large character sets and file sizes.
The Google Fonts catalog now includes Korean web fonts for designers and developers working with the nation's unique Hangul writing system.
