Your handwriting, in Korean

How it works

You write one English sentence on paper and take a photo. The page reads how you write: how thick your pen is, how much your letters lean, how round or sharp your strokes are, how steady your baseline is, and whether you join your letters up.

Korean letters are built from a small set of parts. Every syllable block is made of a consonant, a vowel and sometimes a final consonant. We drew those parts by hand in several styles. Your measurements decide which style to lean towards and how the pen moves, and the page writes any Korean text in that hand.

The result is inspired by your handwriting rather than a copy of it. You never wrote these Korean letters, so we can only carry over the character of your hand. Most people still recognise themselves in it straight away.

Your photo stays with you

Everything happens inside your browser. Your photo is never uploaded to us, and we could not see it if we wanted to. The fonts and images you download are yours to use.

The little faces

Our mascots are drawn with the four letters that vanished from Hunminjeongeum, the original Korean alphabet of 1446: ㆆ for the eyes, ㅿ for the nose, ㆁ for the mouth and ㆍ for the cheeks. Korean stopped using these letters centuries ago, so we gave them a new job. Read their story.

Who makes this

I'm one person in Korea who made this for fun, because I wanted everyone to be able to see their own handwriting in Korean. If something does not look right, or you made something lovely with your font, I would love to hear from you on the contact page.