87MM Ilsang 字體設計 by Sunghoon Kim is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 A' Design Award 鐵獎 in 平面設計 Competition Category.

鐵平面· 2022

87MM Ilsang 字體設計

by Sunghoon Kim

Client: 87mm

A' Design Award 鐵獎 Winner in 平面 Category

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The Design

About 87MM Ilsang 字體設計

87MM Ilsang字體嘅設計考慮到87MM品牌所追求嘅日常價值。呢款韓文斜體字係韓國首次嘗試創作嘅字體。透過將數字8同7詮釋為字體嘅比例同角度，字母面積被設計成8:7嘅空間，而韓文字母中閉合子音嘅大小亦根據呢個比例進行調整。8度同7度角被應用於字幹同收筆等形態元素，以協調斜向書寫時呈現嘅手寫特徵。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 鐵獎

87MM Ilsang 字體設計是 A' Design Award 鐵獎得主，這是授予滿足人們對設計精良的創作所期待的專業與工業要求的優良設計的聲望認可。鐵獎得主展現出其創作者的高超技藝、高度專業化、專家級的理解力和創造能力。預計87MM Ilsang 字體設計將成為一件備受推崇、令人欽佩且被珍愛的創作，既實用又創新。這件贏得 A' Design Award 鐵獎的設計整合了行業最佳實踐，並擁有與專業知識和才華相結合的稱職技術特性。87MM Ilsang 字體設計因其嚴謹而受到尊重，旨在提供有助於讓世界變得更美好的生活品質改善。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

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.
Team Members: Creative Director: Kim Sunghoon
Font Designer: Ku Moa
Image Credits: Kim Sunghoon