Google Fonts launches Korean support

Google Fonts launched official support for Korean web fonts, enhancing access for designers and developers working with the Hangul writing system. This development follows years of experimenting with efficient ways to serve large Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) font files, thanks to foundational technologies like WOFF2 and CSS3 unicode-range. The Google team tackled the challenge of delivering extensive Korean fonts, which require over ten thousand characters, by introducing a slicing strategy that clusters characters based on usage patterns, minimizing HTTP requests. This initiative, which debuted with five fonts from Sandoll and has expanded to 23 families, benefits from cross-site caching, allowing for faster page loads. The unicode-range feature, supported by major browsers like Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge, is central to this efficiency, enabling seamless delivery of font subsets. The launch included a digital specimen site to showcase Korean typography, illustrating the practical application of these enhancements.

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