Pretendard
Designed By
Kil Hyung-jin
9 Styles Sans Serif
Letters for
every day.
Pretendard · Regular
Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.
9 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Pretendard ↓OTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.
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A Clear Hierarchy
Pretendard · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Departures09:00 →
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The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.
9 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Extra Light200
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Light300
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Regular400
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Medium500
Preview Medium · 1.0 MB
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Semi Bold600
Preview Semi Bold · 1.0 MB
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Bold700
Preview Bold · 1.0 MB
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Extra Bold800
Preview Extra Bold · 1.0 MB
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Black900
Preview Black · 1.0 MB
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Pretendard was made to stand in for Apple’s system fonts, San Francisco for Latin and Apple SD Gothic Neo for Hangul, on the computers and phones that do not have them. Kil Hyung-jin started on it in November 2020 and put out the first public version on 28 June 2021.
It is assembled, and carefully. The Latin starts from Rasmus Andersson’s Inter, whose lowercase the designer found too humanist for the San Francisco look being aimed at, so it was pushed toward a neo-grotesque. The Hangul comes from Source Han Sans, the work of Adobe, Google and Sandoll with Jang Soo-young and Kang Joo-yeon. On its own that Hangul runs large beside Latin, which is why people mixing the 2 scripts so often end up resizing one of them, and in Pretendard its metrics were retuned to Apple SD Gothic Neo and the strokes thinned a little. The kana is from M PLUS 1p by Coji Morishita.
Source Han Sans has no SemiBold or ExtraBold. Pretendard has both, 9 weights from Thin to Black, and the project offers a variable version too.
The OpenType set is a long one, 14 stylistic sets in this build, tabular figures, fractions and a slashed zero, plus Korean additions such as corner brackets and an ellipsis sized for Hangul. For the web there are subsets that load only the characters a page uses, the way Google Fonts serves its Korean families, and there are sister packages like Pretendard JP for Japanese and Pretendard GOV for Korean public services.
Our view: for a Korean interface this is the sans to try first, because the size matching between Hangul and Latin, the usual chore, has already been done for you.
Characters & Figures
14,336 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Pretendard
9 OTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 9.0 MB ↓- Version
- 1.309
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/pretendard/pretendard.css">
body {
font-family: 'Pretendard', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.
Pretendard Heading · Pretendard Body
Before You Travel
The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.