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Proposal of Non Tetragon Hangul Module

Added by Unknown 1684 on Aug 24th, 2020

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1976

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"Cho Young Jae published a paper called ‘Study of the structure for the Hangul(the Korean alphabet) mechanization(typewriter)’ in the College of Fine Arts at Seoul National University journal FORM-ARCHIVES. He proposed a new letter font that is suitable for typewriter because square letter form was hard to use. To illustrate the beauty of Hangul, he designed a non tetragon module. Cho’s non tetragon research was proceeded with the follow-up studies by An Sang Soo, Seok Gum Ho, Lee Sang Cheol and by a variety of designers. It also had a great influence on the development of the company logotype CI."—http://cdr.co.kr/heritage/

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