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A neighbourhood lettering archive

기억의 활자

Collected signs, the people behind them, and a Hangul alphabet built from their traces.

Open the type archive

Maker 05A sign painter repairs one Hangul stroke on an ageing storefront panel.

Trace 02Carbon copies, weathered wood, paper blocks, and vermilion stamp ink share one table.

Glyph source / neighbourhood archive

A letter keeps the hand that made it.

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Archivist scanning hand-painted surfaces in a narrow Korean neighbourhood alley. — A modular Hangul system built from awnings, receipts, handwritten notices, and fading walls. Each source stroke is catalogued before it enters a new character set.

Select a letter to inspect its construction.

Title specimen / 01

기 U+AE30

Construction: ᄀ + ᅵ
Reading order: Initial / vowel

A digital specimen from the project title. The letter components are Unicode Hangul—not a claimed historical original.

Painted Hangul fragments hang above a glass case with their source tags intact. — Archive 01Painted Hangul fragments hang above a glass case with their source tags intact.

Carbon copies, weathered wood, paper blocks, and vermilion stamp ink share one table. — Trace 02Carbon copies, weathered wood, paper blocks, and vermilion stamp ink share one table.

Original signs and reconstructed characters face one another in a quiet community room. — Index 03Original signs and reconstructed characters face one another in a quiet community room.

An awning letter, handwritten notice, and shop receipt are photographed before cataloguing. — Evidence 06An awning letter, handwritten notice, and shop receipt are photographed before cataloguing.

An older shopkeeper describes a sign while a younger recorder listens beside it. — Voice 07An older shopkeeper describes a sign while a younger recorder listens beside it.

A new neighbourhood notice pairs a reconstructed glyph with the photographed source. — Return 08A new neighbourhood notice pairs a reconstructed glyph with the photographed source.