Iron Graphic · 2022

87MM Ilsang Font Design

by Sunghoon Kim

A' Design Award 2022 in Graphic
CLIENT: 87mm
Estimated Number of Design Views: 12,371
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About 87MM Ilsang Font Design

The font of 87MM Ilsang is designed with consideration for the daily value pursued by the 87MM brand. The oblique font in Korean is the first font to be attempted in Korea. By interpreting the numbers 8 and 7 as the ratio and angle of the font, the area of the letters was designed as a space of 8:7, and the size of the closed letters among the consonants of Hangeul (Korean Alphabet) was adjusted using this ratio. The 8 and 7 degrees angles were used as morphological elements such as a stem and a conclusion to harmonize the characteristics of handwriting that appear when writing sideways.

About the A' Design Award

87MM Ilsang Font Design is an Iron A' Design Award winner, a prestigious recognition granted to good designs that meet the professional and industrial requirements expected from well-designed creations. Iron winners demonstrate great skill, high specialization, expert understanding, and creative capacity of their creators. 87MM Ilsang Font Design is expected to be a highly regarded, admired, and cherished creation that is practical and innovative. This Iron A' Design Award-winning design integrates industry best practices and has competent technical characteristics linked with know-how and talent. 87MM Ilsang Font Design is respected for its thoroughness and is designed to provide quality of life improvements that help make the world a better place.

Press Kit

Unique Properties: He designed a dedicated font for 87MM, a Korean fashion brand. 87MM is Korea's leading fashion brand that creates a daily culture through sense and wit. To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the brand's launch in 2011, he has designed a dedicated font that can show the identity of 87MM. Anyone who likes 87MM and enjoys it can download and use it for free.
Dimensions & Packaging: 2 Variations (Regular, Oblique) / Hangeul 2,782 letters / Latin Alphabet 214 letters / Symbol 838 letters / Multi glyph
Tags: 87MM, brand font, font, design, graphic, typography
Design Challenge: By interpreting the numbers 8 and 7 as the ratio and angle of the font, the area of the letters was designed as a space of 8:7, and the size of the closed letters among the consonants of Hangeul was adjusted using this ratio. The 8° and 7° angles were used as morphological elements such as a stem and a conclusion to harmonize the characteristics of handwriting that appear when writing sideways.
Research: When designing fonts, it is common to expand the font family to thickness. However, in East Asia, along with Korean fonts, there is no concept of Western italic fonts or oblique fonts due to the culture of writing using brushes and writing in the vertical direction. Therefore, the font family was intended to be expanded to general and inclined bodies, not to be expanded by thickness. The oblique font in Korean is the first font to be attempted in Korea.
Inspiration: The font of 87MM Ilsang is designed with consideration for the daily value pursued by the 87MM brand. Ordinary days that repeat every day gather to create a daily life. However, even if he repeat the same pattern, He wanted to create a font where he could discover new meanings and fun in ordinary things in his daily life and feel the specialty of something a little different. Therefore, 87MM Ilsang has a unique color of 87MM in its ordinary textual Min-Buri (Sans Serif) font.
Project Duration: The project began in Seoul, South Korea in March 2021 and ended in January 2022. You can download and use the font for free from January 2022.
Operation Flow: The value of daily life in the 87MM brand is special. In 2021, to mark the 10th anniversary of its establishment, fonts, an important means of expression that he use on a daily basis, were reinterpreted into the wit possessed by 87MM and introduced into two fonts: 87MM Ilsang Regular and 87MM Ilsang Oblique. Through fonts, he wants to evoke the importance of daily life, become the beginning of people who are interested in fashion, and become a brand that shares daily life.
Image Credits: Kim Sunghoon