Doing Text in a different Language

[perezmedia]

Hi guys. I have a question about language.


Here's my scenario:
1. I want to design a tee with Korean Hangul lettering.
2. I saw somewhere online that it says to click on the text tool > Click on ABC button > Document Language
and there were languages I can choose.

3. But when I open my Xara pro X 2017 & go through the path aforementioned, I only have English US, English UK options and ignore language
How do I get the option for Korean? or any other language at this point?
or, I hope this is not the case > Do I not have this option available to me?

Thanks in advance guys.

[Egg Bramhill]

Welcome to TG.

Best method is to have some Korean text in your font gallery, otherwise Google 'translate' type in the text you want on the tee and copy the translation.

Paste into Xara. Probably best to convert text to shape (Arrange / Convert to Editable Shapes) so you can guarentee it will render corectly in any browser.

[gwpriester]

Egg - I think the use of the text is for a T-shirt.

But good idea to get Google to translate into Hongul (one of the simplest of the Asian alphabets). But I would paste the Google translated text into one of the newer fonts and there will probably be support for Korean.

[Egg Bramhill]

Ah! My bad Gary

[perezmedia]

Hi guys. yea, I left that part out. I was in fact doing the google translate thing. It's super useful.
as for the fonts: I already had about 11 fonts including the ones you displayed that support Hangul lettering but they're a little boring.
The Adobe Gothic standard one seems kool.

I guess I may have to create some dope new fonts for commercial usage which I wanted to avoid but can be fun and beneficial to tee designing.
Its going to take me a while but I may just have to do it.

Thanks guys. Your'e awesome.

[mwenz]

10 pages of free Hangul fonts. Filter set for Commercial usage.
https://www.freekoreanfont.com/tag/commercial-use-ok/

And yet more...
https://freefonts.kr

[gwpriester]

Amazing, Mike. Noto Serif is beautiful. The thing I noticed with most fonts that support Hongul is they are are the same font.

[perezmedia]

Very Niiiice! Thanks a plenty!

[perezmedia]

Now I'm a bit embarrassed. LOL

I usually do my own research for these things.
I should've searched for commercial use Korean fonts before even posting here.

LOL

[gwpriester]

Not a problem. Things are slow and it gives us something to do.