Korean terms

Portable term table, snapshot of 04 October 2026, generated from the core translation memory localization/ko-core.tmx of the FontLab writing guide by tools/scripts/export_terms.py. 54 of 289 terms are approved or protected; a proposed translation is a candidate for a native reviewer, and the English term is the fallback until it is approved. Use newer supplied project data when it disagrees with this snapshot.

A status of do-not-translate protects the English spelling; it does not approve a draft English name. The definition says what the term means in FontLab; the note says why the translation was chosen or how to inflect it. The fallback original term is a plain English phrase to translate instead of the term when the term itself will not travel (stem: main stroke; overshoot: optical surplus).

Names

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
Adobe Illustrator		Adobe Illustrator	do-not-translate		Adobe Illustrator is the host application for the Vexy Illustrator plug-ins. Use the full name on first mention, then Illustrator. Vexy Lines and Vexy Playlines are separate applications; do not describe them as Illustrator plug-ins.
app.fontographer.net		app.fontographer.net	do-not-translate		app.fontographer.net is the address of the browser edition of Fontographer. Preserve the lowercase domain when naming the destination. Use Fontographer when referring to the application itself.
FLUM		FLUM	do-not-translate		FLUM is an internal documentation-project name, not a customer-facing product or feature. Omit it from published instructions. Refer to the relevant product documentation when directing a reader to help.
FontLab		FontLab	do-not-translate		FontLab is the name of the desktop font editor. Preserve its capital F and L in headings and prose. Fontlab Ltd. names the company; the lowercase fontlab spelling belongs to identifiers such as the Python module and website domains.
fontlab (Python module)		fontlab (Python module)	do-not-translate		The fontlab Python module exposes FontLab scripting functionality. Its name is lowercase and case sensitive. Format it as code in prose, and keep the application name FontLab distinct from the module name in examples.
FontLab 8		FontLab 8	do-not-translate		FontLab 8 names version 8 of the desktop font editor. Put one space before the version number. After establishing the version, use FontLab alone where no other version could be meant. Retain the number in compatibility statements and version-specific instructions.
FontLab 9		FontLab 9	do-not-translate		FontLab 9 is a versioned product name whose house usage remains draft. Its appearance in an interface or format description does not establish release availability. Confirm the version and intended audience before using it in new prose; preserve it when quoting an exact label.
Fontlab Ltd.		Fontlab Ltd.	do-not-translate		Fontlab Ltd. is the company name. Preserve the lowercase l in Fontlab and the period after Ltd. Use FontLab, with a capital L, for the product. The two spellings identify different entities and must not be normalized into one.
FontLab Pass		FontLab Pass	do-not-translate		FontLab Pass is the identity and licensing service at pass.fontlab.com. Use the complete service name when explaining account or licence management. Distinguish the service from the FontLab account used to sign in.
FontLab Studio 5		FontLab Studio 5	do-not-translate		FontLab Studio 5 is a historical version of the font editor. Use the full name in migration instructions, historical descriptions and compatibility statements. Do not shorten it to Studio or use it as the name of another FontLab version.
fontlab.com		fontlab.com	do-not-translate		fontlab.com is the main FontLab website address. Preserve the lowercase domain. Link to the relevant page when a reader needs a particular product, download or instruction, rather than sending every task to the home page.
Fontographer		Fontographer	do-not-translate		Fontographer names a font editor. For its browser edition, use app.fontographer.net as the address. Distinguish a historical numbered edition when compatibility or migration depends on it. Preserve Fontographer.net only where it belongs to an exact project or command label.
Fontographer.net		Fontographer.net	do-not-translate		Fontographer.net occurs in project and command labels. Preserve it when quoting an interface label that uses this spelling. Use Fontographer for the application in ordinary prose and app.fontographer.net for its browser address. Broader house usage of Fontographer.net remains draft.
forum.fontlab.com		forum.fontlab.com	do-not-translate		forum.fontlab.com is the FontLab user-forum address. Use it for a relevant discussion or community question, and identify the destination. A documentation link is preferable when the reader needs an established procedure rather than a discussion.
GlyphRef		GlyphRef	do-not-translate		GlyphRef is the class used to reference a Fontographer glyph through its scripting interface. Preserve the capital G and R and format the name as code. Keep the API identifier separate from the ordinary word glyph.
help.fontlab.com		help.fontlab.com	do-not-translate		help.fontlab.com is a FontLab documentation address. Preserve its lowercase spelling and identify the product or article when linking to it. Use a specific documentation page when the reader needs a particular procedure or reference.
help.vexy.art		help.vexy.art	do-not-translate		help.vexy.art is the Vexy documentation address. Name the relevant product when linking to it, since the Vexy products share vocabulary but differ in features and workflows. Preserve the lowercase domain.
pass.fontlab.com		pass.fontlab.com	do-not-translate		pass.fontlab.com is the address for FontLab account and licence management. Use the domain when naming the destination and FontLab Pass when naming the service. Explain the action the reader can perform there.
Photofont		Photofont	do-not-translate		Photofont is a protected Fontlab Ltd. name, written as one word with a capital P. Preserve this spelling in a notice or reference. Confirm the relevant product and version before adding a claim about functionality.
playlines.vexy.art		playlines.vexy.art	do-not-translate		playlines.vexy.art is the address of Vexy Playlines, the browser application. Preserve the lowercase domain. Use the product name for the application and the address for the destination the reader opens.
Strokes Maker		Strokes Maker	do-not-translate		Strokes Maker is a former name of Vexy Lines. Use Vexy Lines for the current product and retain Strokes Maker when identifying a historical release or explaining the name change. Do not rename an old interface label inside a quotation.
studio.fontlab.com		studio.fontlab.com	do-not-translate		studio.fontlab.com is an unconfirmed service address in the naming register. Keep it draft and do not direct readers there without confirmation of the destination and its availability. A recorded spelling does not establish that a service exists.
TransType 5		TransType 5	do-not-translate		TransType 5 names version 5 of the font conversion application. Keep TransType as one word with capital T in both parts, followed by one space and the version. Use TransType after establishing the version; declare TrT before using it as a short form.
TypeTool		TypeTool	do-not-translate		TypeTool is a protected Fontlab Ltd. product name, written as one word with two capital Ts. Preserve that spelling when naming the product or quoting a notice. Confirm the relevant version before describing its features or compatibility.
Vexy		Vexy	do-not-translate		Vexy is the family prefix in Vexy Lines, Vexy Linestra, Vexy Playlines and Vexy Vextra. It is not a standalone application name. Identify the product when describing an operation; retain Vexy alone when it is the exact name of an interface category.
Vexy Lines		Vexy Lines	do-not-translate		Vexy Lines is the standalone desktop application for converting a bitmap into vector artwork through algorithmic fills. Keep the full two-word name. Distinguish it from Vexy Playlines, the browser application, and from the Vexy Illustrator plug-ins. Its native project format is .lines.
Vexy Linestra		Vexy Linestra	do-not-translate		Vexy Linestra is the Adobe Illustrator plug-in for parametric line fills. Use the two-word product name in prose. Preserve the closed spelling VexyLinestra in an exact filename such as VexyLinestra.aip; a filename spelling does not replace the product name.
Vexy Playlines		Vexy Playlines	do-not-translate		Vexy Playlines is the browser application for converting images into vector artwork at playlines.vexy.art. Use the full name in titles and on first mention, then Playlines where unambiguous. Keep it distinct from Vexy Lines, the desktop application.
Vexy Vextra		Vexy Vextra	do-not-translate		Vexy Vextra is the Adobe Illustrator plug-in for contour editing. Use the full name in a title and on first mention; Vextra is the declared short form. Preserve VexyVextra in an exact filename such as VexyVextra.aip.

Type design

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
ascender	upward extension	어센더	proposed	KST dictionary, Glyphs 3, FontForge and Adobe all use 어센더.	An ascender is the part of a lowercase letter that extends above the x-height, as in b or d. Ascender height describes the intended alignment of these parts and may differ from cap height. Do not confuse this design measurement with similarly named vertical metrics in exported font tables. Line spacing depends on those fields and on the application using them.
baseline	writing line	기준선	proposed	KST dictionary headword, and Adobe, Apple and Microsoft all call the baseline 기준선 (16 corpus origins). Glyphs 3's loan 베이스라인 is rejected for the everyday word.	A baseline is a reference line used to align text. In conventional horizontal Latin font design, the baseline is at y = 0, with ascenders above it and descenders below it. Other scripts and layout systems can use different baseline conventions. Identify the relevant baseline when discussing alignment across scripts or vertical text.
bowl	round belly	볼	proposed	KST dictionary headword for the closed round stroke of a, b, d, p. The corpus pick 그릇 is the kitchen sense.	A bowl is a rounded stroke that encloses a counter, as in b, d or p. Its shape, thickness and junctions affect the letter's balance. The appropriate number of curve segments depends on the design. Nodes at extrema can help editing and hinting, but a fixed segment count does not guarantee compatible masters or good interpolation.
cap height	capital-letter height	캡 하이트	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge write 캡 하이트 and the KST dictionary 캡하이트. Adobe's descriptive 대문자 높이 is the rejected alternative.	Cap height is the distance from the baseline to the top of a flat capital such as H. Rounded or pointed capitals may extend beyond it through overshoot. Record the intended value in Font Info. Cap height describes a design measurement; alignment zones and line-spacing metrics are separate settings, even when their values are related.
character		문자	proposed	Glyphs 3 (문자 세트), Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 문자 for the abstract character, distinct from 글리프.	A character is an abstract unit of written text, such as a letter or punctuation mark. A glyph is its visual representation. The relationship is not one to one: several characters can form a ligature, and a character can have several glyph forms. A user-perceived character can also consist of several Unicode codepoints. Keep characters, codepoints and glyphs distinct when discussing encoding or text processing.
contour		윤곽선	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Reverse Contour as 윤곽선 방향 반전 and the KST dictionary uses 윤곽선 for a glyph's drawn line. 패스 (Glyphs 3 and Adobe for path) is the rejected alternative.	A contour is an open or closed sequence of connected line and curve segments. Its nodes and control points describe its geometry. One glyph or vector object can contain several contours. A counter is an area of space, not a synonym for a contour. When explaining fill behaviour, identify the outline format and fill rule before prescribing a contour direction.
counter	enclosed white space	속공간	proposed	The KST dictionary redirects 카운터 to 속공간 (the space enclosed by a letter's strokes); Korean foundries use it for Hangul and Latin alike.	A counter is the enclosed or partly enclosed space within a letterform, such as the enclosed space in an o or the open space in a c. The surrounding strokes define it. A closed counter may have an inner contour as its boundary; an open counter does not require a separate contour. Judge its size and shape together with the surrounding strokes.
descender	downward extension	디센더	proposed	KST dictionary, Glyphs 3, FontForge and Adobe all use 디센더.	A descender is the part of a letter that extends below the baseline, as in p or y. Its design height is usually recorded as a negative coordinate relative to the baseline. Exported descender metrics are separate fields used by applications for layout. Whether a deep glyph clips depends on the relevant metrics, application and text container, not on one design value alone.
diacritical mark	combining mark	발음 구별 부호	proposed	Sandoll, Apple CoreText and the Korean Unicode block names use 발음 구별 부호; the KST dictionary headword 분음부호 is the shorter alternative.	A diacritical mark is a small sign, such as an acute or a cedilla, that attaches to a base letter to form another character. FontLab builds accented glyphs from a base and a mark through anchors, and the GDEF mark class tells the shaper which glyphs are marks. Say mark glyph for the class member and diacritical mark for the sign.
em	type body	엠	proposed	The KST dictionary headword is 엠 (with 유닛 and 유피엠). Glyphs 3 and FontForge leave Em in Latin; 전각 is rejected because it now means a fullwidth character.	The em is the square on which a typeface is designed, historically the body of the letter M in metal type. Its height equals the type size, so an em in 12 point text is 12 points. In a digital font the em is divided into UPM font units.
extremum	local extreme point	극점	proposed	KST dictionary headword (extreme point) and FontForge use 극점.	An extremum is a point where a curve reaches a local leftmost, rightmost, topmost or bottommost position. The plural is extrema. Placing nodes at extrema can help editing and hinting. If you add nodes to masters intended for interpolation, preserve the correspondence between their contours and points. Different extremum positions alone do not make masters incompatible.
glyph		글리프	proposed	KST dictionary, Glyphs 3, FontForge, Adobe and Apple; 글리프 also follows the loanword orthography. Sandoll's 글립 is the rejected variant.	A glyph is one drawn shape in a font: a letter, a figure, a mark, or a piece of a composite. A character is what a reader types and a glyph is what a renderer draws, and one character can map to several glyphs while several characters can map to one. You edit a glyph in the Glyph window, where its contours, elements, anchors, and metrics all live together. The distinction matters in any sentence about encoding, since a font maps codepoints to glyphs through the cmap table.
handle		핸들	proposed	Adobe (핸들) and Korean type teaching (핸들, 조절점) use 핸들.	A handle is an off-curve control point used to shape a curve segment. A cubic Bézier segment has two control points; a quadratic segment has one. Moving a handle changes the curve without moving its endpoints. In tools that display handle arms, the arm connects a control point to an endpoint. Name the curve type when the number or behaviour of handles matters.
ink trap	ink relief notch	잉크트랩	proposed	KST dictionary headword 잉크트랩, also used by Sandoll.	An ink trap is a notch cut into a corner where strokes meet, so ink spread or rasterization at small sizes does not clog the join. FontLab makes them as a live Smart Corner variant.
italic angle	slant angle	이탤릭 각도	proposed	Glyphs 3 has Italic 각도; 이탤릭 is the KST dictionary and orthography spelling. FontForge's 이탤릭체 기울기 is rejected.	The italic angle is the slope of the upright strokes of an italic or oblique design, measured from the vertical in degrees. FontLab stores it in Font Info, uses it to slant guides and the cursor, and writes it into the post and hhea tables. It is a property of the design, not of a transformation.
lining figures	capital-height figures	라이닝 숫자	proposed	KST dictionary headword 라이닝숫자, also FontForge, Adobe and Sandoll.	Lining figures are digits that share the cap height and sit on the baseline, so they align with capitals in tables and headlines. The lnum feature selects them where a font defaults to oldstyle figures.
node		노드	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 노드 (노드 연결, 노드 삽입). Adobe's 고정점 is rejected to keep nodes apart from anchors.	A node is a point on a contour where segments meet, and its type decides how they meet. A sharp node lets two segments arrive at any angle. A smooth node keeps the handles collinear so the curve passes through without a kink. A tangent node joins a line to a curve smoothly. A G2 node matches curvature as well as direction. You select a node and drag it, or nudge it, and the segments on both sides follow. Put nodes at the extremes so hinting and interpolation have something to hold.
overshoot	optical surplus	오버슛	proposed	KST dictionary headword, Sandoll's course and Typography Seoul write 오버슛. The corpus form 오버슈트 is the control-engineering spelling and the strict orthographic one.	Overshoot is the extension of a rounded or pointed shape beyond an alignment line so that it appears as tall as a flat shape. For example, an o may extend above the x-height and below the baseline. Its amount depends on the design and intended size. PostScript alignment zones can describe these overshoot regions for hinting; there is no universal percentage to apply.
proportional figures	natural-width figures	가변폭 숫자	proposed	Apple CoreText has 가변폭 숫자 and Sandoll 가변 폭 라이닝; pairs with 고정폭 숫자. FontForge's 비례폭 숫자 and KST's 비례너비 are the alternatives.	Proportional figures have individual advance widths, so a 1 takes less room than an 8. They read well in running text; tabular figures share one width for columns. The pnum feature selects them.
segment		세그먼트	proposed	Glyphs 3, FontForge and Adobe use 세그먼트; Adobe's older 선분 is rejected because it implies a straight line.	A segment is the portion of a contour between two on-curve endpoints. It may be a straight line or a curve. A quadratic Bézier segment has one off-curve control point; a cubic segment has two. Describe the segment type and the relevant editing command rather than assuming that every curve has two handles or that changing a node type performs every conversion.
serif		세리프	proposed	KST dictionary, Sandoll, Glyphs 3 and Apple use 세리프; 부리 is the separate term for Hangul.	A serif is the finishing stroke at the end of a stem or arm. Its shape sorts a face into the familiar classes: oldstyle, transitional, Didone, slab. You draw a serif once and reuse it as a component or an element, which keeps a family consistent and makes a late change cheap. Serifs are small, so they take the most damage at low resolution, which is where hinting and careful alignment zones earn their place.
sharp		각진	proposed	The corpus picks 선명하게 and 샤프 are the image-sharpening sense; for a corner or node the plain word is 각진. KST's 꺾임 names a bend in a Hangul stroke.	Sharp describes a pointed corner or a node at which contour direction can change abruptly. Image sharpening is a different operation.
sharp node		각진 노드	proposed	No attestation; 각진 (angular) is the everyday opposite of 매끄러운 (smooth). Adobe's 모퉁이점 is tied to its 고정점 vocabulary.	A sharp node joins contour segments without requiring a smooth change of direction. The handles of adjacent segments need not be collinear; a smooth node constrains their direction.
stem	main stroke	줄기	proposed	The KST dictionary's native word for a letter stroke (획 redirects to 줄기; 가로줄기, 세로줄기), and FontForge uses 줄기 for stem hints. KST's 스템 (Latin letters only) and Glyphs 3's 획 (collides with stroke) are rejected.	A stem is a main stroke of a letter, usually the vertical one: the two uprights of an H, the single upright of an l. Stem width sets the weight of a face, and stems that disagree across a family break its rhythm. You measure a stem with the Measurement tool and record the standard widths in Font Info, where hinting and the stem links read them. Vextra reuses the word for the paired edges it detects in general artwork, not only in letters.
swash	flourish	스워시	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 스워시, which is also the orthographic spelling; FontForge's 스워쉬 and Apple's 장식 are rejected.	A swash is a decorative flourish that extends a letter, often on a capital or a terminal. Swash alternates live in the swsh feature and in glyphs with a swash suffix.
terminal	stroke ending	터미널	proposed	KST dictionary headword and Sandoll's glossary use 터미널 for a stroke ending without a serif.	A terminal is the end of a stroke without a serif, such as the ending of a c or f. Its shape may be rounded, angled or cut off, depending on the design. Compare related terminals across a typeface at the intended reading size. The anatomical term does not prescribe how to construct or store the shape in an editor.
UPM	units per type body	UPM	proposed	Glyphs 3 keeps UPM (UPM 변경) and the KST dictionary lists it as 유피엠; in explanatory prose expand it as 엠당 유닛 수. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0.	UPM, units per em, specifies how many font units make up one em. It sets the scale for outline coordinates and metrics when a renderer converts them to a text size. Values such as 1000 and 2048 are common; TrueType outlines do not require a power of two. When changing UPM, distinguish changing the scale value from rescaling the outlines and metrics.
winding direction	drawing direction	윤곽선 방향	proposed	Glyphs 3 has 윤곽선 방향 반전 for reversing it; FontForge says 아웃라인의 방향.	Winding direction is the order in which a contour runs, clockwise or counter-clockwise, and it decides which areas the renderer fills. FontLab follows the PostScript convention: outer contours wind counter-clockwise and counters wind clockwise. The letter O is two contours, one each way. You check direction before you export, and reverse a contour when a counter fills solid or an outer shape turns hollow. A renderer applies the rule at draw time, so the error shows in the proof rather than in the editor.
x-height	small-letter height	엑스 하이트	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge write 엑스 하이트 and the KST dictionary 엑스하이트. Adobe's x 높이 is the rejected descriptive alternative.	The x-height is the height of a lowercase x above the baseline, and it stands for the height of the lowercase in general. It does more for apparent size than the point size does: two faces at the same size look different when their x-heights differ. You record it in Font Info so hinting and alignment zones can use it, and you draw round letters slightly above it to allow for overshoot. Write it lowercase with a hyphen, even at the start of a sentence recast to avoid one.

Font engineering

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
advance height		글자높이	proposed	Vertical counterpart of 글자폭 (advance width); no fixed Korean term is attested, so it is derived from the chosen noun. Glyphs 3 has only 세로 너비 (Vertical Width), which reads as a contradiction.	The distance the text position advances vertically after a glyph. It is the vertical counterpart of advance width, not the height of the visible outline.
advance width	glyph box width	글자폭	proposed	Adobe Fonts Korean, Sandoll (자폭, 고정 폭) and type designers' prose use 글자폭 for the width a glyph occupies. The KST dictionary's exact term is 활자너비 (width including side spaces), while its 글자너비 is the visible shape only; both rejected as less usual in font tools.	Advance width is the horizontal distance allocated to a glyph before layout adjustments, measured in font units. In an OpenType font, the base values are stored in the hmtx table. Kerning and other positioning operations can adjust advances during layout without rewriting those base values. Advance width differs from the visible outline width; a space can have an advance without an outline.
alignment zone	height band for snapping	정렬 영역	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Alignment Zones as 정렬 영역.	An alignment zone is a region around a common vertical alignment, such as the baseline or cap height, used in PostScript hinting. It can include the overshoot of rounded letters. A rasterizer uses zone information when fitting outlines to a pixel grid. Keep this mechanism distinct from design measurements and from the control-value and instruction mechanisms used in TrueType hinting.
anchor	attachment point	앵커	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 앵커 throughout. Adobe's 고정점 (anchor point) is rejected because it names a path node, not an attachment point.	An anchor is a named attachment point in a glyph that says where a mark belongs. A base letter carries a top anchor, and the accent carries a matching one, so the accent lands in the same relation on every letter that uses it. You place anchors in the Anchors and Pins panel, and FontLab uses them both to build composites and to generate mark attachment lookups in GPOS, which is what positions marks in text the font never composed itself.
anti-aliasing	edge smoothing	앤티에일리어싱	proposed	KST dictionary headword and FontForge; the spelling follows the loanword orthography (not 안티앨리어싱).	Anti-aliasing paints partly covered pixels in intermediate shades so a rendered outline looks smooth. FontLab's preview can show anti-aliased, monochrome or subpixel rendering so you can check how hints behave under each. Write the hyphenated form.
autohinting	automatic screen fitting	자동 힌팅	proposed	Derived from 힌팅 with the everyday 자동; the KST dictionary and Morisawa Korea say 오토힌팅, which stays a valid synonym.	Autohinting generates hints for a font from its outlines and its declared stems and zones, in one pass over the glyphs. It is a starting point rather than a finish: it hints the regular cases well and leaves the awkward glyphs for you. You run it after the alignment zones and standard stem widths are correct in Font Info, because it reads them. Then you check the glyphs that matter at text sizes and correct by hand what the pass got wrong.
axis		축	proposed	Glyphs 3, FontForge, Adobe and Sandoll (굵기 축) all use 축.	An axis is one dimension of font variation, such as weight, width or optical size. In an OpenType variable font, each axis has a four-character tag and a minimum, default and maximum value. Registered tags, such as wght, have defined meanings. Preserve tag spelling and case, and check the axis registry when assigning a custom tag.
axis map	axis value mapping	축 매핑	proposed	No fixed term; 축 (Glyphs 3) plus 매핑, the usual Korean for a value mapping. Glyphs 3 renders Axis Mappings loosely as 축 설정.	An axis map converts user coordinates on an axis, such as weight 400, to the design coordinates of the masters. It is stored in the avar table and lets a slider feel even when masters are not.
bottom sidebearing		아래쪽 사이드베어링	proposed	Derived from 사이드베어링; no separate attestation for the vertical sidebearings.	The space below the glyph outline within its vertical advance. This value participates in vertical text spacing rather than horizontal spacing.
component		컴포넌트	proposed	Glyphs 3 and Sandoll (글립스 컴포넌트) use 컴포넌트. 구성 요소 is the general-software word and would collide with 요소 (element).	A component is a reference to another glyph placed inside this one, so that aacute holds the a and the acute rather than copies of their outlines. Change the source glyph and every glyph that references it follows. You build composites from components, position them with anchors, and keep them as references through to export, where a TrueType flavoured font stores them in the glyf table. In FontLab a component is one kind of element reference.
composite glyph	assembled glyph	조합 글리프	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Create Composite as 조합 글리프 만들기; FontForge's 복합/합성 글리프 is rejected.	A composite glyph is built from references to other glyphs rather than from its own outlines: an accented letter, a currency symbol with a bar, a stacked fraction. You assemble it from components and anchor them to the base, so a change to the base or to the mark reaches every composite that uses it. Composites keep a large accented character set consistent and small. A composite that has been decomposed is no longer one, and no longer follows its sources.
conversion profile	export settings set	변환 프로필	proposed	No attestation; plain compound of 변환 (conversion) and 프로필, the platform word for a saved profile.	A conversion profile is the saved set of choices TransType applies to a conversion: the output format, the naming scheme, the filters, and the options that go with them. You build a profile once for a job you repeat, then run it over a new set of sources without repeating the decisions. It matters because a family converted with two different sets of options ships as two families that do not quite match, which shows up in a font menu rather than in a test.
CVT table		CVT 테이블	proposed	Tag kept, noun translated; a table inside a font is 테이블 (FontForge: cvt Table, 커닝테이블).	The CVT table holds the control values that TrueType hinting instructions refer to: the stem widths, heights, and other measurements a font wants held constant across glyphs. An instruction cites a CVT entry rather than a raw number, so one change to the table reaches every glyph that cites it. You work with it through the TrueType Hinting panel. It ships in the font, alongside the instructions themselves and the prep and fpgm programs that set the machine up.
design space	variation range	디자인 공간	proposed	No fixed Korean term; literal rendering used by Korean writing on variable fonts. Glyphs 3 says only 인터폴레이션 범위.	A design space describes the positions defined by a font project's variation axes. Masters provide source data at specified locations; instances represent results at selected locations. User coordinates and internal design coordinates may be connected by a mapping, or may have the same values. State which coordinate system a number belongs to when the distinction affects a procedure.
device correction	per-size pixel correction	크기별 보정	proposed	No attestation; fallback translated (a correction per pixel size), with 보정 as in KST's 시각보정.	A device correction adjusts a kerning or positioning value by whole pixels at one pixel size, to fix rounding at that size only. Stored in GPOS device tables; rarely needed on modern rasterizers.
dimensions		치수	proposed	No attestation in a font tool; 치수 is the plain word for measured dimensions and keeps these vertical values apart from 메트릭스.	The font or family vertical values, such as ascender, descender, capital height, x-height and line gap. Distinguish these values from glyph spacing and canvas measurements.
element		요소	proposed	No Korean font tool has this object; 요소 is the plain word (9 corpus origins) and stays distinct from 컴포넌트. The corpus pick 요소함 is a Blender container.	An element is FontLab's container for a piece of drawing inside a glyph: one or more contours, an image, or a reference to another element. A glyph holds elements, and an element holds contours, which is the layer of structure that makes a serif or a stem reusable across a family. You work with elements in the Elements panel and with the Element tool. The word is FontLab's own; other editors call the nearest thing a path group or a component.
element reference	shared drawing link	요소 참조	proposed	Derived from 요소 and 참조.	An element reference is a placed copy of an element that still points at the original. Edit the original and every reference updates. You use references to share a serif, a stem, or a whole letter across a family, and you decompose a reference only when a glyph genuinely needs to diverge. A component is the familiar case of an element reference: one glyph placed inside another. Keep references intact through the design phase, since decomposing early throws away the link that makes a late change cheap.
family dimensions		글자 가족 치수	proposed	Derived from 글자 가족 (Glyphs 3 for family) and 치수.	The vertical values used to establish line layout for a font family. Platform-specific ascender, descender and line-gap fields belong to this group.
Flex		Flex	proposed	Fixed PostScript hint name, kept as in FontForge and all reviewed languages.	Flex is a PostScript hint that flattens a shallow curve, such as a cup serif, to a straight line at small sizes. FontLab marks glyphs that carry it. Keep the name.
font dimensions		폰트 치수	proposed	Derived from 폰트 and 치수.	The design dimensions of a font master, including ascender, descender, capital height and x-height. These values describe the vertical proportions of the design.
font target	export target	대상 폰트	proposed	No attestation; fallback translated with 대상 (target) and 폰트.	A font target is what TransType produces from a source: the output font, with its format, its names, and the filters applied on the way. Sources go in on one side and targets come out on the other, and one source can produce several targets. You set the target options before you convert, and you name the target in a procedure step so a reader knows which side of the conversion a setting belongs to.
font unit		폰트 유닛	proposed	The KST dictionary uses 유닛 for the subdivision of the em; FontForge has both 유닛 and 단위.	A font unit is the coordinate step of a font's design grid. UPM says how many of them make one em, so a 700 unit stem in a 1000 UPM font is 70 percent of the em. Metrics, kerning values and node coordinates are all stated in font units.
fractional coordinates	non-integer coordinates	소수 좌표	proposed	No attestation; plain Korean for coordinates with decimals (fallback: non-integer coordinates).	Fractional coordinates are node positions with decimal places, kept for curve fidelity while you draw. Font formats store integers, so FontLab rounds on export or when you turn on Round coordinates for the font.
friendly glyph name	readable glyph name	읽기 쉬운 글리프 이름	proposed	No attestation; fallback (readable glyph name) translated. Glyphs 3's 나이스 네임 is its own product jargon.	A friendly glyph name is the readable name FontLab shows for editing, such as Aacute, as opposed to the production name written into the exported font, such as uni00C1. FontLab can keep both and convert on export.
ghost hint	edge-only fitting instruction	유령 힌트	proposed	No Korean attestation; the plain word for a ghost, as Spanish, French and Polish translated it. 고스트 힌트 is the loan alternative.	A ghost hint is a PostScript hint with a special width that marks one edge, such as the top of a round letter, when there is no stem to hint. It aligns that edge to an alignment zone.
hint	screen fitting instruction	힌트	proposed	Glyphs 3, FontForge and the KST dictionary use 힌트.	A hint is a stored instruction that tells a rasterizer how to align a stem or a zone to the pixel grid at small sizes. PostScript hints describe stems and zones; TrueType hints are instructions. FontLab draws hints in the Glyph window and generates them with autohinting. The word stays English in every language.
hint zone	hinting height band	힌트 영역	proposed	Derived from 힌트 and 영역, the noun Glyphs 3 uses for a zone (정렬 영역).	A hint zone is a horizontal band, such as the baseline or the x-height, inside which a rasterizer snaps overshoots to the same pixel row. FontLab stores zones in Font Info and shows them in the Glyph window. An alignment zone is the PostScript name for the same thing; hint zone is the general term.
hinting	screen fitting	힌팅	proposed	KST dictionary headword; Sandoll, Morisawa Korea and Glyphs 3 use 힌팅.	Hinting is the extra information a font carries so that its outlines land predictably on a pixel grid at small sizes. PostScript hinting declares stems and alignment zones and leaves the rasterizer to interpret them. TrueType hinting gives instructions that move points explicitly, with the control values in the CVT table. You work on PostScript hints in the glyph and in Font Info, and on TrueType hints with the TrueType Hinting tool and panel. Autohinting produces a starting point you then correct.
instance	generated design	인스턴스	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge use 인스턴스.	An instance is a particular result at a location in a font's variation space. A named instance, such as Semibold, gives a selected location a name that applications can present. Other locations need not have names. In FontLab, configured instances can be exported as static fonts or included as named instances in a variable font.
interpolation		인터폴레이션	proposed	KST dictionary headword (which gives 보간법 as its gloss), Glyphs 3 and FontForge. The shorter 보간 is the rejected alternative.	Interpolation calculates values between source values. In font design, it can calculate outlines, metrics and other data from masters at specified design-space locations. Outline interpolation requires corresponding contour and point structures. Structural compatibility makes the calculation possible, but does not guarantee a good drawing: inspect intermediate results as well as the masters. Extrapolation calculates beyond the source range.
kern exception	pair spacing exception	커닝 예외	proposed	Derived from 커닝; no separate attestation.	A kern exception is a pair value that overrides what the classes would otherwise apply. One member of a class rarely behaves like the rest, and the exception says so without breaking the class apart. You create one in the Kerning panel by kerning the single pair while its classes stay in place. Keep exceptions few: a class with many exceptions is the wrong class, and the cheaper fix is to split it rather than to list every disagreement.
kerning	pair spacing correction	커닝	proposed	KST dictionary, Sandoll, Glyphs 3, FontForge and Adobe all use 커닝. Apple's 자간 is a different concept (letter spacing).	Kerning adjusts the spacing of particular glyph combinations beyond their normal advances. A pair such as AV may need a different gap from the one produced by its unadjusted metrics. OpenType fonts commonly store horizontal kerning in GPOS lookups associated with the kern feature; some formats and workflows use a separate kern table. Name the mechanism when it matters to export or compatibility.
kerning class	pair spacing group	커닝 클래스	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge use 커닝 클래스.	A kerning class groups glyphs that need the same kerning. You put every glyph that behaves alike on one side into one class, then kern the class once instead of kerning each pair inside it. FontLab applies the class value to every member pair and keeps single pairs as exceptions where a member needs its own value. Classes matter because a text face carries thousands of readable pairs, and a hand kerned list of that size is unmaintainable. FontLab writes the result into GPOS as class based positioning.
kerning pair	spacing-corrected pair	커닝 쌍	proposed	Glyphs 3 counts pairs as 쌍 and the KST dictionary defines 커닝페어 as 글자 한 쌍; where the English says only pair, write 쌍.	A kerning pair associates two glyphs, or two kerning classes, with a spacing adjustment. In horizontal kerning, a negative value normally reduces the gap and a positive value increases it. An individual glyph pair may provide an exception to class kerning, but it can also exist without a class rule. Check pairs in representative text as well as in isolation.
left sidebearing		왼쪽 사이드베어링	proposed	Glyphs 3 spells out LSB as 왼쪽 사이드 베어링; written with the KST dictionary's closed 사이드베어링. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0.	The horizontal space between the glyph origin and the left edge of its outline. It contributes to the glyph advance width and its spacing.
Lib		Lib	proposed	An identifier mirroring the UFO lib; kept as in German, Spanish, French and Polish.	Lib is the custom metadata dictionary of a font or a master, mirroring the UFO lib and stored in VFJ. Scripts and tools keep their own keys there.
line gap		글줄사이	proposed	The KST dictionary defines 글줄사이 as the space between one line and the next, parallel to 글자사이. 줄 간격 is rejected as the word-processor term for line spacing; engineers also say 라인 갭.	The line gap is extra vertical space between lines that a font recommends beyond ascender and descender. hhea and OS/2 each store one.
line height		줄 높이	proposed	Standard Korean for line-height in CSS and UI documentation; 줄 is also the platform word for a text line (여러 줄).	The distance between successive text baselines. It includes the relevant ascender, descender and line-gap contributions; line gap alone is only the additional space.
link metrics	tie spacing to another glyph	메트릭스 연결	proposed	No attestation; the everyday verb 연결 (to link) with 메트릭스. Glyphs 3 handles the same idea as 메트릭스키.	Link metrics ties a glyph's sidebearing or advance width to another glyph or to an expression, so the value follows its source. FontLab shows linked metrics with the expression and updates them when the source changes.
linked metrics		연결된 메트릭스	proposed	Derived from 메트릭스 연결.	Glyph spacing values linked to another glyph or to an expression. Updating the source or expression changes the dependent advance width or sidebearings.
mark attachment	combining mark positioning	마크 부착	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 부착 for attaching to an anchor and FontForge 마크 첨부; derived from 마크.	Mark attachment positions a combining mark relative to a base glyph, a ligature component or another mark. OpenType GPOS lookups describe the anchor relationships, and the shaping engine applies the positioning during layout. FontLab can generate attachment code from suitable anchors. Check the relevant generation settings and test combinations, including stacked marks, rather than assuming that every anchor automatically becomes a lookup.
master	source design	마스터	proposed	Glyphs 3, FontForge and Korean foundries (멀티플 마스터) use 마스터.	A master provides source outlines and other font data at a specified location in a design space. Masters can describe weight, width or other variations, including intermediate locations. FontLab uses corresponding data from masters to calculate instances. For outline interpolation, check contour and point compatibility in each affected glyph; the word master alone does not guarantee that every glyph is present or compatible.
master compatibility	matching master structure	마스터 호환성	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Master Compatibility as 마스터 호환성.	Master compatibility is the condition every glyph must meet before it can interpolate: the same number of contours in the same order, with the same number of nodes and the same start point in each. FontLab reports incompatible glyphs and gives you Matchmaker to repair them by matching contours and start points between masters. Fix compatibility before you tune shapes, because a repair that reorders nodes moves every curve that depends on them.
metrics		메트릭스	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 메트릭스 (Metrics, 세로 메트릭스), which is also the orthographic form of the plural loan. FontForge and Adobe have 메트릭.	Metrics are the measurements that place a glyph in a line: its advance width and its two sidebearings. Vertical metrics are a separate set, the font wide values for ascender, descender, and line gap. You work on horizontal metrics in the Metrics panel and with the Metrics tool, and on vertical metrics in Font Info. Say which set you mean whenever a page discusses both, because a reader who applies a horizontal instruction to the vertical fields breaks line spacing everywhere the font is used.
metrics expression		메트릭스 수식	proposed	Derived from 메트릭스; 수식 is the platform word for an expression that calculates a value.	An expression that calculates a glyph advance width or sidebearing from other values. It describes a spacing relationship rather than a canvas measurement.
metrics key		메트릭스 키	proposed	Glyphs 3 has 메트릭스키 for Metrics Keys.	A glyph reference or expression used to derive a spacing value. The referenced value determines an advance width or sidebearing.
pin		핀	proposed	Proposed form retained from the current FontLab UI. A pin is a named positioning point, distinct from an anchor used for glyph attachment.	A pin is a named point inside an element. Use pins to position elements with expressions and to attach elements to each other. An anchor is a named point in a glyph layer, used for component placement and mark attachment. Create either with the Guides tool and edit it in the Anchors and Pins panel.
PPM	pixels per type body	PPM	proposed	Korean keeps the abbreviation in hinting fields; in explanatory prose expand it as 엠당 픽셀 수. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0.	PPM, pixels per em, is the size at which a rasterizer renders a font: how many pixels one em occupies. TrueType hints, device corrections and bitmap strikes are specified per PPM. In explanatory prose expand it; in hinting fields the short form is usual.
production glyph name	shipping glyph name	프로덕션 글리프 이름	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 프로덕션 이름 (Production Names).	A production glyph name is the name written into the exported font, chosen for compatibility with tools and the Adobe Glyph List, such as uni00C1 rather than Aacute.
rendering	drawing on screen	렌더링	proposed	KST dictionary, Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 렌더링.	Rendering is the conversion of an outline into pixels on a screen or a printer. The rasterizer of the operating system or of FontLab's preview reads the outline, applies the hints and paints the result. FontLab previews rendering at chosen pixel sizes so you can judge hints. Rasterization names the same step from the pixel side.
required glyphs	mandatory glyphs	필수 글리프	proposed	No attestation; plain compound (fallback: mandatory glyphs).	Required glyphs are the ones the OpenType specification and common tools expect at the start of a font: .notdef, NULL or uni0000, CR or uni000D and space. FontLab can add them on export.
right sidebearing		오른쪽 사이드베어링	proposed	Glyphs 3 spells out RSB as 오른쪽 사이드 베어링; written with the closed 사이드베어링. Keep numeric controls compact: LSB/RSB (French AG/AD), UPM and PPM. Expanded terms belong in explanatory help; the full Family Dimensions Units Per eM label is an intentional exception. Team UI convention in Proteus 1751b28b0.	The horizontal space between the right edge of a glyph outline and the end of its advance width. It contributes to spacing.
sidebearing	side space	사이드베어링	proposed	KST dictionary headword; Glyphs 3 and Korean foundry writing (RixFont) use 사이드베어링. FontForge's 측면 베어링 is rejected.	A sidebearing is the space between a glyph's outline and the edge of its advance width: the left sidebearing before the shape, the right sidebearing after it. Together with the advance width it sets how the glyph spaces against every other glyph, which is the work that carries a text face further than kerning does. You edit sidebearings in the Metrics panel or with the Metrics tool, one glyph at a time or across a selection, and you check them in a word rather than in isolation.
size		크기	proposed	Universal platform wording.	The size of an object or the chosen size of displayed text. Name a specific width or height when only one direction is intended.
spacing		글자사이	proposed	KST dictionary headword for the space between letters (자간 redirects to it), and 글립스 타입 디자인 (Noh Eunyou, Ham Minjoo) titles its spacing chapters 글자 사이. Glyphs 3's UI loan 스페이싱 is the alternative. Only for letter spacing; other spacing is 간격.	The adjustment of glyph advance widths and sidebearings to establish the space between letters. Kerning makes additional adjustments to particular pairs.
standard stem	reference stem width	표준 줄기	proposed	Derived from 줄기; no attestation.	Standard stems are the representative horizontal and vertical stem widths declared in a font for hinting. The rasterizer snaps stems near those widths to the same pixel count, so like stems stay alike at small sizes.
stem link	stem tie	줄기 링크	proposed	Derived from 줄기; 링크 as the noun for a hinting link. No attestation.	A stem link ties two edges of a stroke together as a stem, so hinting can hold their distance as the size changes. A vertical link governs a horizontal measurement and a horizontal link governs a vertical one. You add links in the glyph, either by hand or from an autohinting pass, and you keep them consistent with the standard stem widths declared in Font Info. Vextra reuses the term for the paired edges it detects in artwork that is not type.
styling group name		스타일 그룹 이름	proposed	No attestation; plain compound, following Glyphs 3's 스타일 for style names.	The styling group name, SGN, ties together the styles an application reaches through its bold and italic buttons, and the styling link value and styling link name say which slot each style takes in that group. The mechanism is older than typographic family names and narrower: four slots, no more. You set these fields in TransType when a family has to behave correctly in applications that still drive style selection from those buttons.
subsetting	cutting down a font	서브세팅	proposed	Loan used by Korean web-font engineering (폰트 서브세팅, 서브셋 폰트); no corpus attestation.	Subsetting exports only part of a font, such as the glyphs a page uses or one codepage, to make a smaller file. The OS/2 embedding bits can forbid it.
top sidebearing		위쪽 사이드베어링	proposed	Derived from 사이드베어링; no separate attestation.	The space above the glyph outline within its vertical advance. This value participates in vertical text spacing rather than horizontal spacing.
tracking	uniform letter spacing	트래킹	proposed	KST dictionary headword, defined as changing 글자사이 by one value across a run. Adobe's 자간 is rejected because the KST dictionary redirects 자간 to 글자사이 (spacing).	Tracking changes the spacing across a run of text, rather than correcting particular pairs as kerning does. Layout applications apply it to text. TransType's Tracking filter changes spacing in the font data itself. That changes the font's starting metrics; a layout application can still apply additional tracking to text set in the resulting font.
TrueType instruction	pixel fitting instruction	TrueType 명령	proposed	FontForge has TrueType 명령 and the KST dictionary 힌팅 명령; TrueType stays in Latin.	A TrueType instruction is one step of the program a TrueType font runs to fit an outline to the pixel grid. Instructions are the TrueType form of hints. FontLab writes them from visual TrueType hints and can keep the ones a font already has. Say instruction for the code and hint for what the reader draws.
typographic family name		타이포그래픽 글자 가족 이름	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Family Name as 글자 가족 이름 and uses 타이포그라픽 for Typographic; spelled 타이포그래픽 per the orthography and Apple.	The typographic family name, TFN, is the name that groups every style of a family under one entry, and the typographic style name, TSN, is what distinguishes a style inside it. They sit beside the older four style family and style names that legacy applications read. You set them in TransType and in Font Info, and you keep them consistent across a family, because an app that reads these fields builds its font menu from them.
update metrics		메트릭스 업데이트	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 업데이트 for its Update commands (왼쪽 사이드 베어링 업데이트).	Recalculate glyph spacing values from their links or expressions. This command updates the advance widths and sidebearings that depend on those relationships.
variable font		베리어블 폰트	proposed	KST dictionary headword 베리어블폰트 and Sandoll; Glyphs 3 spells it 배리어블 폰트. Adobe and Microsoft say 가변 글꼴, the rejected alternative.	A variable font contains data for design variation along one or more axes. Applications select axis values and calculate the corresponding outlines and other variable data. Named instances identify selected locations, but users are not limited to those locations when the application exposes axis controls. A variable font's supported range depends on its data; it need not contain every style in the family.
variation location	position in the variation range	디자인 공간 위치	proposed	No attestation; fallback translated. Where the English says only location, write 위치.	A variation location is a point in the design space, given as one value per axis. Masters and instances each have one, and the Variations panel slider shows the current one.
vertical advance	glyph box height	세로쓰기 글자높이	proposed	Same measure as advance height, named for vertical setting (FontForge: 세로쓰기 이동폭); derived, no attestation.	The vertical advance is the distance a glyph advances in vertical text, the counterpart of advance width for East Asian layout. Stored in vmtx.
vertical metrics		세로 메트릭스	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 세로 메트릭스.	The font-wide vertical values used for line layout, including ascender, descender and line gap. FontLab groups these as dimensions, distinct from glyph spacing metrics.
visual kerning	shape-measured spacing correction	시각적 커닝	proposed	Adobe names optical kerning 시각적; derived from 커닝.	Visual kerning is kerning that FontLab proposes by measuring the shapes, so that a font gets a usable first pass without a person typing thousands of values. You run it over a selection, then review what it produced, because a measurement of two outlines does not know about the words a reader will meet. Treat the result as a draft: keep the pairs it got right, correct the ones it did not, and kern the difficult pairs by eye in real words.
weight axis	thickness axis	굵기 축	proposed	Sandoll uses 굵기 축.	The weight axis, tag wght, varies stroke thickness from light to bold. In a variable font it is the most common axis; its master locations use the usWeightClass scale, such as 400 for Regular and 700 for Bold.
weight class		굵기 클래스	proposed	Derived from 굵기 and Glyphs 3's 클래스 (너비 클래스); the corpus pick 가중치 is the statistics sense of weight.	The weight class is the OS/2 value from 100 to 900 that tells applications how heavy a style is, with 400 for Regular and 700 for Bold. Style linking and menus rely on it.
width axis	narrow-to-wide axis	너비 축	proposed	Derived from 너비, Glyphs 3's word for width (너비 클래스); kept apart from 글자폭 (advance width).	The width axis, tag wdth, varies letter proportions from condensed to extended. It is distinct from advance width, which is the spacing of one glyph, and from the geometric width of a shape. Its scale is a percentage of normal width.
width class		너비 클래스	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Width Class as 너비 클래스.	The width class is the OS/2 value from 1, ultra condensed, to 9, ultra expanded, that tells applications how wide a style is. It is a classification, not the width axis value and not the advance width.

OpenType

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
Adobe Glyph List		Adobe Glyph List	do-not-translate		The Adobe Glyph List maps standard glyph names to Unicode codepoints, so that a glyph named aacute is understood as U plus 00E1 by any tool that follows it. You name glyphs by it wherever it covers the character, because tools and text engines can then infer the mapping without being told twice. Where it does not cover a glyph, you fall back to a consistent scheme of your own and assign codepoints explicitly. Write the name in full on first mention, then AGL.
alternate glyph	glyph variant	대체 글리프	proposed	Adobe uses 대체 글리프 and Sandoll 대체 글립; follows 글리프.	An alternate glyph is another form of the same character, selected through an OpenType feature such as salt or a stylistic set. Its name usually carries a suffix, as in a.alt or g.ss01.
cmap		cmap	do-not-translate		The cmap table maps character codes to glyph indices. Its Unicode subtables provide the initial mapping used in text rendering; other subtables support particular encodings or variation sequences. FontLab generates these mappings from the project's encoding data. A glyph without its own Unicode assignment can still appear in typed text through substitution, such as a ligature or alternate selected by the shaping engine.
code page	legacy character table	코드 페이지	proposed	Microsoft and FontForge (MS 코드 페이지) use 코드 페이지.	A code page is a numbered legacy encoding, such as Windows 1250 for Central European languages, that maps one byte to one character. The OS/2 table lists the code pages a font supports, and FontLab derives that list from the glyphs present. Write two words.
color font table		컬러 폰트 테이블	proposed	Derived: 컬러 폰트 is the Korean foundry term and a table inside a font is 테이블 (FontForge); the tags stay Latin.	Colour-font tables store data for colour glyph rendering. Formats include COLR with CPAL, SVG, sbix, and CBDT with CBLC. They differ in how they describe vector or bitmap content and in application support. Including several formats can extend coverage, but does not guarantee rendering in every application. Identify the exported formats and test the intended targets.
contextual alternates	context-dependent variants	문맥 대체	proposed	Adobe's Korean OpenType help says 문맥 대체; Glyphs 3 has the longer 문맥에 따른 대체 문자.	Contextual alternates, the calt feature, cover substitutions an app makes because of what sits around a glyph rather than because a reader asked. In a script face the text engine replaces an entry stroke after a letter that already ends in one, and in a face with repeating shapes it replaces the second of a pair. You write the rules with context in feature code, and apps usually leave calt on by default, which makes it the feature most likely to surprise you when a rule is too broad.
cursive attachment	joined-script connection	필기체 연결	proposed	FontForge and Apple CoreText (Cursive Connection) use 필기체 연결.	Cursive attachment joins glyphs by matching an exit anchor of one glyph to the entry anchor of the next, so connected scripts such as Arabic and Nastaliq flow. It is the curs feature, built from anchors.
design languages		대상 언어	proposed	No attestation; translated as target languages, as the four reviewed languages did. 디자인 언어 would read as a design style.	Design languages, the meta table dlng record, list the languages the typeface was designed for. Supported languages, slng, list every language it can set. Both are language tags, not feature tags.
encoding		인코딩	proposed	Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and the KST dictionary use 인코딩.	An encoding maps character codes to glyphs. Unicode is the encoding modern fonts use; legacy encodings such as Mac Roman or a code page map one byte to one glyph. FontLab shows the font in a chosen encoding in the Font window and writes the cmap from it. Say encoding for the mapping and code page for a numbered legacy table.
feature code	layout rule code	피처 코드	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 피처 코드 and 피처 파일.	Feature code is the text syntax that describes OpenType features: classes, lookups, substitution and positioning rules, grouped into features by tag. It is usually called FEA, after the file extension. You edit it in the Features panel, compile it to check for errors, and keep it under the same review as the drawings, since a rule that fires on the wrong glyph is as visible as a wrong outline. FontLab compiles it into GSUB and GPOS at export.
fractions		분수	proposed	Adobe, Apple, FontForge and Sandoll use 분수.	Fractions are numerical forms such as ½. In OpenType, the frac feature supports diagonal fraction composition through glyph substitution. A font may provide precomposed fraction glyphs, numerator and denominator forms, or both. The separate numr and dnom features provide numerator and denominator forms. Do not substitute the sups and subs feature names for these mechanisms or promise support for every input sequence without testing it.
glyph index	glyph number	글리프 인덱스	proposed	Apple Font Book uses 글리프 인덱스.	A glyph index is the number a glyph occupies in the font's own order, counting from zero. Text engines work in indices after the cmap has done its job, and binary tables reference glyphs by index rather than by name. You rarely set one by hand, but you meet it when you inspect a compiled font or debug a lookup that fires on the wrong glyph. The index depends on glyph order, so it changes when the order does.
glyph name		글리프 이름	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge use 글리프 이름.	A glyph name identifies a glyph in an editing project, feature code or a tool's data. Names such as a, a.sc and a.alt can distinguish related drawings. They are separate from Unicode assignments and glyph indices, and need not survive in every exported format. After renaming a glyph, check references in feature code, classes and scripts, including references the editor cannot update automatically.
GPOS		GPOS	do-not-translate		GPOS is the OpenType table that holds positioning: kerning, mark attachment, cursive attachment, and any rule that moves a glyph without replacing it. FontLab writes your kerning here, as pairs and as class based positioning, and builds the mark lookups from your anchors. You reach it through feature code rather than by editing the table. A font may also carry a legacy kern table; modern text engines read GPOS and many ignore the other.
GSUB		GSUB	do-not-translate		GSUB is the OpenType table containing glyph-substitution lookups. It supports operations such as replacing a glyph with an alternate, forming a ligature or selecting a form from its context. FontLab compiles feature code into these structures. To diagnose a missing substitution, check the glyphs, compiled rules, feature selection, language and shaping order in the target application.
ligature	joined letters	합자	proposed	Glyphs 3, Apple, Adobe, Sandoll and the KST dictionary use 합자; KST's Latin-only headword 리거처 and FontForge's 합음자 are rejected.	A ligature is a glyph used to represent a sequence of characters, such as fi. OpenType substitution can replace several glyphs with one ligature glyph. The liga and dlig features distinguish standard and discretionary ligatures. Shaping does not change the underlying text; whether a later document export preserves searchable text also depends on that export and its text mappings.
localized forms	language-specific variants	지역화된 형태	proposed	Glyphs 3 has 지역화된 양식 and FontForge 지역화된 형식; 형태 is used instead of 양식 because Glyphs 3 itself uses 형태 for letterforms and 양식 reads as a document form.	Localized forms are glyph variants selected for a text run's language. The OpenType locl feature can provide these substitutions, for example Bulgarian forms of Cyrillic letters. The shaping engine needs the relevant language information, which the application may obtain from a setting or other context. The substitution changes glyph selection, not the underlying characters or their codepoints.
lookup	procedure	프로시저	approved	User/team procedure fallback. No sufficiently strong established OpenType-specific alternative verified in the reviewed primary sources. Keep the approved contextual Rules panel title. Preserve literal FEA lookup/lookupflag keywords, identifiers and OpenType structure names. Ordinary search senses are separate.	A lookup groups substitution or positioning rules of one type in GSUB or GPOS. Features reference lookups, and several features can share one. The shaping engine selects features and may process them in script-specific stages; within a stage, LookupList order matters. Source-code order alone does not describe the complete shaping sequence. Inspect the compiled tables and the target engine when diagnosing ordering problems.
mark glyph	combining mark glyph	마크 글리프	proposed	Derived from 마크 and 글리프.	A mark glyph is an accent or other combining mark that attaches to a base glyph through anchors. The GDEF table classes it as a mark so shaping engines position it rather than advancing past it.
nonspacing mark	zero-width combining mark	폭 없는 마크	proposed	No attestation; fallback (zero-width combining mark) translated with 마크 and 폭 from 글자폭.	A nonspacing mark is the Unicode general category Mn: a combining mark with zero advance, such as a combining acute. It differs from FontLab's nonspacing element, which is a property of an element inside a glyph.
oldstyle figures	lowercase-style figures	올드스타일 숫자	proposed	KST dictionary headword 올드스타일숫자, also FontForge, Apple and Sandoll (올드 스타일).	Oldstyle figures are numerals with varying heights, often including forms with ascenders and descenders. The OpenType onum feature selects them when provided by the font. Figure height and figure width are separate choices: oldstyle figures can be proportional or tabular. Use tabular widths when numerals must align in columns, whether their forms are oldstyle or lining.
OpenType class	layout glyph group	OpenType 클래스	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge use 클래스; OpenType stays in Latin as Adobe writes it.	An OpenType class is a named group of glyphs that feature code can address at once, written with an at sign before the name. One rule over two classes replaces a page of single rules, and one edit to a class reaches every rule that cites it. You define classes in the Classes panel or in feature code, and you keep their order stable, because a substitution between two classes pairs them by position. Kerning classes are a separate mechanism with the same idea.
OpenType feature	layout feature	OpenType 피처	proposed	KST dictionary 오픈타입피처, Morisawa Korea and Sandoll 오픈타입 피처; OpenType kept in Latin as in Adobe's OpenType 기능.	An OpenType feature identifies typographic behaviour through a four-character tag, such as liga, smcp or ss01. Feature records reference substitution or positioning lookups. In FontLab, you can write feature code and compile it into the font. Whether and when a feature is applied depends on the shaping engine, script, language and application settings; not every feature is a user-controlled switch.
OS/2 table		OS/2 테이블	proposed	Tag kept, noun translated; 테이블 for a table inside a font (FontForge).	The OS/2 table carries the font's metadata for applications: vertical metrics, weight and width classes, embedding permissions, the panose values, and the codepage and Unicode range bits that say what the font covers. You fill it from Font Info rather than by hand, and you check it before release, because a wrong weight class puts a font in the wrong slot in a menu and wrong vertical metrics change line spacing in every browser. Write it with the slash: OS/2.
Private Use Area		Private Use Area	do-not-translate		A private-use area is one of three Unicode blocks whose codepoints can receive meanings by private agreement. Different fonts or systems may assign different meanings to the same private-use codepoint. Use a documented agreement when encoding custom symbols there. An alternate glyph reached through a feature does not require its own private-use assignment.
single substitution		단일 치환	proposed	No fixed term; 치환 is the technical word for substitution and keeps GSUB rules apart from 대체 (alternates). FontForge has 단일 글리프로 대체.	A single substitution replaces one glyph with one other glyph, the simplest GSUB lookup type. Small caps, stylistic alternates and localized forms are mostly built from it.
small caps	small capitals	작은 대문자	proposed	Adobe, Apple and FontForge use 작은 대문자 (17 corpus origins) and 작은대문자 is a KST dictionary headword; designers also say 스몰캡.	Small caps are capital shapes drawn at roughly lowercase height, with their own weight and width rather than scaled capitals. Apps apply the smcp feature to put them in place of lowercase letters, and c2sc to put them in place of capitals, so a run set in both features becomes uniform. You draw them as separate glyphs, usually with a dot sc suffix, and write both features. Scaled capitals look thin beside real text, which is the reason to draw them rather than let an app fake them.
stylistic set		스타일 세트	proposed	Adobe's Korean OpenType help and menu say 스타일 세트; Glyphs 3 has 스타일리스틱 세트 and Apple 문체 세트.	A stylistic set is a numbered group of alternate glyphs a reader can switch on, from ss01 through ss20. Each set holds alternates that belong together: a single storey a with a matching g, a set of flat topped figures. You name each set in the font so an app can show a readable label instead of a number, and you keep one idea per set. A set that mixes unrelated alternates gives a reader nothing they can decide about.
tabular figures	equal-width figures	고정폭 숫자	proposed	FontForge and Apple (고정폭 숫자) and Sandoll (고정 폭 라이닝).	Tabular figures all carry the same advance width, so columns of numbers line up whatever digits they contain. Apps apply the tnum feature to put them in place of proportional figures. You draw them as a separate set and give every one the same width, centring the narrow digits inside it. They matter in any table, price list, or running total, and they look loose in prose, which is why a font offers both sets rather than choosing for the reader.
Unicode codepoint	character code	유니코드 코드 포인트	proposed	Glyphs 3, Apple and the KST dictionary write 유니코드; FontForge has 코드 포인트.	A Unicode codepoint is an integer from U+0000 to U+10FFFF. Not every codepoint has an assigned character. Write it with U+ and at least four hexadecimal digits, as in U+0041 for A. In a font editor, a glyph's Unicode assignment connects it to an encoded character; the exported cmap records the relevant mapping.
variation selector	variant picker character	이형 선택자	proposed	No firm attestation; 이형 (variant form) plus 선택자, the usual Korean for a selector. FontForge's 변동 선택기 is rejected.	A variation selector is a Unicode character that follows a base character to request a specific glyph form. The pair is a variation sequence, mapped in the cmap format 14 subtable; a default mapping points at the base glyph.
writing system		문자 체계	proposed	Standard Korean linguistic term; the Microsoft glossary's 쓰기 시스템 is a calque.	A writing system is the set of characters and rules a language writes with, such as Latin, Cyrillic or Arabic. OpenType calls it a script and identifies it by a four letter tag. Say writing system in prose and script tag for the identifier, so the reader does not confuse it with a Python script.

File formats

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
AI file		AI file	do-not-translate		An AI file is an Adobe Illustrator document, and it is the container the Vexy Illustrator plug-ins work inside. It holds paths, strokes, fills, appearances, and the live effects that a plug-in adds. You do not export an AI file from the plug-ins; you work in one. Write it as an AI file or an Illustrator document, never as an ai, and name Adobe Illustrator in full on first mention in the same document.
AIP		AIP	do-not-translate		An AIP file is an Adobe Illustrator plug-in binary, and it is how Vexy Linestra and Vexy Vextra reach Illustrator. The filenames close up the product name, VexyLinestra.aip and VexyVextra.aip, while prose keeps the space. You copy the file into the Illustrator plug-ins folder, whose name the operating system may show translated, and restart Illustrator so it loads. Name the file exactly as it ships, since a renamed plug-in does not load.
FLREQ		FLREQ	do-not-translate		An FLREQ file is a licence request the application writes when a machine cannot reach the licensing service, and an FLLIC file is the response that activates it. You send the request from the machine that needs the licence, receive the response, and open it there. The pair exists for machines that stay offline, so name both files in a procedure that uses either, and say which machine each step happens on.
Fog.net		Fog.net	do-not-translate		Fog.net is Fontographer's project data format, and fognet is the Python module that reads and writes it from a script. A project file carries the extension .fog. You meet the format when you script against a project or move one between machines, rather than in ordinary editing, where the dashboard handles saving. The module name is lowercase, as Python module names are, and it goes in code font wherever it appears in prose.
Glyphs file		Glyphs file	do-not-translate		A Glyphs file is the source format of the Glyphs editor, and FontLab reads and writes it so that a project can move between the two. It holds masters, glyphs, metrics, and features in one text file. You use it when a collaborator works in the other editor, and you check the result after the trip, because two editors model masters and components in ways that do not correspond exactly. Write it as a Glyphs file, not as a glyphs.
Lines file		Lines file	do-not-translate		A Lines file is the native document of Vexy Lines, holding the source image, the fills applied to it, and the settings that produced the result. You save to it while you work and export vector artwork when you are finished, because the export keeps the result and not the recipe. Write it as a Lines file with a capital L when you name the format, and as the extension in lowercase with a dot when you mean the file suffix.
OTF		OTF	do-not-translate		OTF is the usual filename extension for an OpenType font with PostScript outlines. These use cubic curves stored in CFF or CFF2 data. State the outline flavour when it matters: OpenType fonts with TrueType outlines also support OpenType layout features. The .otf extension alone does not establish which features, colour formats or variation capabilities a font contains.
SVG		SVG	do-not-translate		SVG is the vector graphics format, and it names two different things in this documentation: a graphic file that a drawing tool exports, and the SVG table inside a colour font. Say which you mean. You export SVG artwork from the Vexy products, and you meet the SVG table when you build a colour font in FontLab. A sentence that says SVG support without saying which one leaves a reader to guess.
TTC		TTC	do-not-translate		TTC is the usual filename extension for a TrueType font collection: several fonts stored in one file. Collection members can share tables, reducing duplication where their data is identical. A collection is a packaging format, not an interpolation model. Distinguish its individual fonts from named instances within a variable font.
TTF		TTF	do-not-translate		TTF is the usual filename extension for a font with TrueType outlines, which use quadratic curves. An OpenType TTF can contain layout features and variation data. Exporting cubic source outlines to this flavour requires curve conversion, which can change the point structure and approximate the original geometry. Check the exported outlines at the intended sizes.
Type 1		Type 1	do-not-translate		Type 1 is an older PostScript outline-font format. It remains relevant when opening archived fonts or explaining conversion workflows. Support depends on the application and version, so identify the target when discussing compatibility. Converting a Type 1 font to OpenType does not automatically supply missing Unicode mappings or new layout features.
UFO		UFO	do-not-translate		UFO, Unified Font Object, is an open source-font format. UFO 3 stores glyph layers, font information, kerning, groups and optional feature code in a directory package or ZIP archive. It also allows images and application-specific data. Interchange depends on what both applications support; a UFO export does not by itself guarantee that every editor-specific property survives.
VFB		VFB	do-not-translate		VFB is the native source format of FontLab Studio 5. FontLab 8 can open and export it, but the format cannot represent every feature of a FontLab 8 project. Use VFC or VFJ for ongoing work in FontLab 8. Name VFB when explaining migration or an exchange workflow that requires the older format, and check the exported result for unsupported data.
VFC		VFC	do-not-translate		VFC is FontLab's native binary format, and the one you work in. It holds everything the editor knows: masters, elements, references, anchors, kerning, features, and the project settings that no font format carries. You save to it while you design and export to OTF or TTF when you ship. Write the format in capitals when you name it and in lowercase with a dot when you mean the extension. Its sibling VFJ stores the same content as text.
VFJ		VFJ	do-not-translate		VFJ is FontLab's JSON source format. It provides a text representation of a FontLab project for workflows that need readable or scriptable data. Use it as a source format, not an installable font. When exchanging files between FontLab versions or external tools, check that the receiving tool supports the data the project uses.
WOFF2		WOFF2	do-not-translate		WOFF2 is a compressed font format for web delivery. Its encoding uses font-specific transformations and Brotli compression. Export it for web use and test the resulting font in the target browsers. The size saving depends on the source font and its contents; do not promise a fixed reduction or infer available features from the extension.

Interface

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
action		동작	proposed	Apple and Adobe (InDesign, Illustrator) use 동작 for an invokable operation; 액션 is Photoshop's recorded macro and 작업 is a task.	An action is an operation you can invoke in the application. An action label names the operation; help explains its effect.
add		추가	proposed	Glyphs 3 (글리프 추가, 앵커 추가) and every platform use 추가; the corpus pick 더하기 is arithmetic addition.	Add inserts another item into the current collection or selection. Name the item when the surrounding control does not make it clear.
alternate		대체	proposed	Glyphs 3 and Apple CoreText use 대체 for alternates.	An alternate is a different glyph form for the same character or purpose. The context determines how you select or substitute that form.
anchor cloud	attachment point cloud	앵커 구름	proposed	No attestation; 앵커 plus the plain word for cloud. Where the English says only cloud, write 구름.	The anchor cloud previews the marks that attach to an anchor by showing them faintly around the glyph in the Glyph window. It checks mark positioning without leaving the base glyph.
auto layer	recipe-built layer	자동 레이어	proposed	No attestation; fallback idea rendered with the everyday 자동 and the chosen noun 레이어.	An auto layer builds a glyph from a recipe, such as A plus acute, and rebuilds it when the parts change. Turn auto off to edit the glyph by hand.
autohint		자동 힌트	proposed	Glyphs 3 and FontForge have 자동힌트 for the command; written as two words like other 자동 compounds. 오토힌트 (also Glyphs 3) is the rejected loan.	Autohint is the command to generate hints automatically. Use autohinting when naming the process rather than the command.
Brush		붓	proposed	House rule: a tool borrowed from a real tool takes the real tool's name, and 붓 is the brush a calligrapher holds. Adobe and Glyphs 3 use the loan 브러시/브러쉬, rejected.	The Brush tool draws a stroke freehand, and what the stroke becomes differs by product. In FontLab and Fontographer the Brush keeps the path you drew as a centreline and generates the thick outline from it, so the drawing stays editable until you expand it into ordinary contours. In Vexy Lines the Brush paints masks by hand, and a mask decides where a layer's fills can draw rather than being artwork itself. Name the application in any sentence where a reader could take one tool for the other.
collapse		모으기	proposed	No attestation for this node operation; the definition (bring selected nodes to one point) is translated with the plain verb. The corpus pick 축소 means shrinking a panel, a different action.	Collapse aligns the selected nodes to one point. In the Contour tool it aligns both coordinates; in the Metrics tool only the horizontal one. It moves nodes; it does not merge them.
color flag	color mark	색 라벨	proposed	Glyphs 3 calls the same glyph colour marking 색 라벨 (Color Label).	A color flag is a color you assign to a glyph cell, a kerning pair or a class to mark it for later. Flags are annotations for the designer and are not exported.
corner angles		모서리 각도	proposed	No attestation; 모서리 is the everyday word for a corner (Microsoft), used for every corner term here.	The angles at contour vertices. These geometric measurements describe how adjacent segments meet at a corner and can be displayed on the canvas.
cousins	related glyphs alongside	사촌	proposed	No attestation; the plain family word, in the house voice, as Polish did with kuzynostwo.	Cousins are related glyphs or other masters that FontLab shows faintly around the current glyph in the Glyph window, so you can compare shapes and spacing while you edit. The name is FontLab's, rendered in each language's house voice.
crop		자르기	proposed	Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 자르기 (25 corpus origins).	Crop trims an image or drawing to a chosen area. The command label names the operation; its context identifies the object being cropped.
cubic		3차	proposed	Korean mathematics calls a cubic curve 3차 곡선; the corpus loan 큐빅 means a gemstone in everyday Korean.	A cubic Bézier segment is a curve defined by two endpoints and two control points. Cubic describes the degree of the curve, not its physical dimensions.
current		현재	proposed	Universal platform wording.	Current identifies the item or state active at the time of an operation. Name the item, such as the current layer, when the context is ambiguous.
cusp		첨점	proposed	Korean geometry term for a cusp; no type-specific attestation.	A cusp is a sharp point where a curve changes direction abruptly. Keep it distinct from a smooth join.
decompose	break into contours	분해	proposed	Glyphs 3 (컴포넌트 분해) and FontForge use 분해.	Decompose replaces components with copies of their contours, so the glyph no longer follows its source glyphs. Use it before edits that a component cannot carry, or before export to a format without composites.
default		기본값	proposed	Universal platform wording (47 corpus origins).	A default is the value or choice used when no explicit alternative has been selected. It need not be the currently selected value.
demo mode		데모 모드	proposed	Standard Korean software wording; no type-specific source needed.	Demo mode is how FontLab runs without a license: everything works except saving, exporting and printing.
dialog		대화 상자	proposed	Microsoft and general Korean software wording.	A dialog presents information, settings or a question for a particular interaction. A modal dialog restricts interaction with its parent until it is dismissed; a modeless dialog does not. Use the application's established name and reproduce its button labels exactly. If a procedure opens a dialog, explain the relevant choices and how to apply or cancel them.
Dream Up	generate shapes	뚝딱 만들기	proposed	No attestation; house voice. 뚝딱 is the sound of the folk-tale magic club that produces things at a stroke, so the name conjures as Polish wyczaruj does, and 만들기 still says it generates.	Dream Up is a Fontographer command for generating glyph shapes. Dream Up Font generates a whole font; Mixfont blends existing fonts. Keep these commands distinct and show any confirmed cost before the reader runs an operation. Generated shapes may need further editing.
echo text	repeated text	텍스트 따라가기	proposed	No attestation; fallback idea translated: the preview follows the text of the current window. 반복 is avoided because it is Repeat.	Echo text makes a preview repeat the text of the current window, so the Preview panel or the TrueType hinting preview shows the same string you are editing.
Eraser		지우개	proposed	The real tool's name; Adobe, Apple and Microsoft all use 지우개.	The Eraser removes or simplifies points on a contour. In FontLab, its modes remove nodes and handles, select points for removal, or simplify a path. In Vexy Vextra, normal Eraser removes covered points; Soft Eraser removes a node only when a replacement curve is close enough to the original. That does not guarantee an identical outline. In Fontographer, Eraser shares a grouped toolbar button with Trowel. Name the application and mode when describing an operation.
expand filter	bake filter into contours	필터 확장	proposed	Illustrator's Korean interface uses 확장 for Expand, the same bake-into-paths operation; no font tool attests the phrase.	Expand filter bakes a live element filter, such as Smart Corners, Skin or a boolean Fusion, into plain contours. The filter parameters are no longer editable afterwards.
expand stroke	bake stroke into contours	획 확장	proposed	Illustrator's 확장 (Expand) with 획 (stroke); FontForge's 스트로크 확장 has the same structure. Glyphs 3 words its own command 아웃라인 만들기.	Expand stroke converts a stroked centerline, or a brush applied to a contour, into plain filled contours. The live stroke or brush is gone afterwards and the result can be edited node by node.
expand transformation	bake transformation into contours	변형 확장	proposed	Derived from 확장 (Illustrator's Expand) and 변형; no attestation of the phrase.	Expand transformation writes an element's live transformation, such as scaling or rotation, into the node coordinates. The element then has an identity transformation and its contours carry the geometry directly.
feature		피처	proposed	Glyphs 3 (피처), the KST dictionary (오픈타입피처) and Sandoll use the loan; Adobe's 기능 is rejected because it also means any function of the application.	A feature in OpenType editing identifies typographic behavior implemented by substitution or positioning lookups. Feature tags are literal identifiers and remain unchanged in translation.
Fills		채우기	proposed	Glyphs 3 (Fill is 채우기), Apple and Microsoft use 채우기. Illustrator's noun 칠 (paired with 획) is the rejected alternative; it is also the numeral seven.	In FontLab, the Fill tool sets enclosed regions as filled or unfilled by changing contour direction or applying a live Fill filter. In Vexy Lines, Linestra and Playlines, a fill mode is a method for generating artwork from an image, such as Halftone or Stipple. Name the application and distinguish the tool, the filled region and the generative mode.
FontAudit		폰트오디트	proposed	User requires phonetic transliteration, explicitly including Chinese. Russian and Ukrainian spellings were recovered from team QPH; other spellings are proposals. Retain the FontAudit identity; do not translate as a generic audit command. Preserve FontAudit in code and identifiers.	FontAudit is the FontLab panel that inspects outlines and reports the problems a proof will show later: unclosed contours, wrong winding directions, missing extreme nodes, near vertical segments, and the like. You run it over a glyph or a selection, read the findings, and fix what matters for the design rather than clearing every warning. In English write the FontAudit panel on first mention. Localized UI may transliterate the name into its writing system; keep the name distinct from a generic audit command. Preserve FontAudit in code and identifiers.
FontLab account		FontLab 계정	proposed	Translate the common noun account and inflect it in complete sentences; preserve the FontLab brand. German, Spanish and French wording is already used in current FontLab UI. Other language forms are proposals. Do not duplicate account when the surrounding sentence already translates it.	A FontLab account is the identity used to sign in to FontLab services and manage licences. Keep the capital L in FontLab and lowercase account in English. Translate the common noun account while preserving the FontLab name. Distinguish the account from a licence, subscription or payment when more than one appears in the same explanation.
Fusion	Welder	용접공	proposed	User decision 2026-10-04: translate the fallback Welder, the named live boolean group filter. Polish Spawacz is explicit; other renderings are proposals. Preserve Fusion in code identifiers.	Fusion is FontLab's live boolean filter on an element group: add, subtract, intersect or exclude the overlapping contours while the parts stay editable. Intersect keeps only the overlap; expand the filter to bake the result.
Genius node	self-balancing node	천재 노드	proposed	No attestation; house voice. The plain word for a genius, rather than the transliteration 지니어스.	A Genius node keeps its curves smooth and balanced automatically when neighbours move; FontLab adjusts its handles for you. A Follower node follows key nodes under Power Nudge. Both are FontLab names, rendered in each language's house voice.
grid		그리드	proposed	Glyphs 3, Adobe and the KST dictionary use 그리드; 격자 is the older alternative.	A grid is a set of regularly spaced reference lines or points used to position drawing objects. Keep it distinct from a mesh used for deformation.
Groups		그룹	proposed	Glyphs 3 (커닝 그룹) and every platform use 그룹.	A group collects several things and treats them as one, and the things differ by product. In FontLab the word most often means a kerning group, the set of glyphs that kern alike, which the documentation also calls a kerning class. In Vexy Vextra, following Illustrator, a group is selected artwork bound into one object. In Vexy Lines a group bundles layers and carries its own source image, working like a folder. TransType adds a styling group that ties a family's styles into a menu. Say which you mean.
guide		안내선	proposed	Illustrator and InDesign call a guide 안내선, the native everyday word. Glyphs 3 has 가이드라인 and FontForge 가이드.	A guide is a reference line used to position or align drawing objects. Its name describes its role rather than a visible stroke in the exported glyph.
kerning mode		커닝 모드	proposed	Derived from 커닝.	The editing mode for adjusting spacing between pairs of glyphs. It changes pair adjustments rather than the individual glyph sidebearings.
Knife		칼	proposed	House rule: the real tool's name. The corpus has 칼 five times; Glyphs 3's loan 나이프 is rejected.	The Knife tool works along a line you drag across a shape, and what it leaves behind differs by product and by sub-tool. In FontLab it adds nodes where the line crosses a contour, breaks a closed contour into open paths, or slices one contour into two closed shapes, depending on which of its three sub-tools is active. In Fontographer it cuts through contours along the drawn path. In Vexy Lines it inserts points and splits curves. Say which app, which mode, and what the cut leaves.
layer		레이어	proposed	Glyphs 3, Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 레이어.	A layer holds one drawing or part of a document. In FontLab, the context identifies the glyph layer; name the application when another product uses a different layer model.
Layers		레이어	proposed	Same noun; Korean does not mark the plural.	Layers hold the separate drawings a glyph or a document carries at once. In FontLab a glyph layer holds one master, a mask, or a background, and you manage them in the Layers and Masters panel, where switching layers switches which drawing you edit. In Vexy Lines a layer is a transparent sheet holding one or more fills, and it is the basic unit of a document, since artwork needs at least one. The two meanings sit close enough to be mistaken, so a sentence about layers names the application.
mark		마크	proposed	Glyphs 3 (Mark is 마크) and FontForge (기저마크) use 마크 for a combining mark; the corpus pick 표시 is the interface sense of marking something.	A mark in glyph positioning is a diacritical glyph positioned in relation to another glyph. A color mark or selection mark is a different interface meaning.
Masks		마스크	proposed	Adobe and Apple use 마스크; Korean does not mark the plural.	A mask holds a second drawing, and what it does with that drawing differs by product. In FontLab a mask is a glyph layer carrying a previous version or a reference shape, so you can compare the live outline against it and copy between them; it hides nothing. In Vexy Lines a mask is a vector stencil that decides where a layer's fills can draw, letting the fill through its transparent areas and holding it back elsewhere. Name the application, and in FontLab prefer the full phrase mask layer.
match		맞추기	proposed	No type-specific attestation; the plain verb for making things correspond. The corpus pick 일치 names the state, and 경기 or 성냥 are other senses of match.	Match makes selected properties correspond. The object and context determine whether this means synchronizing edits, matching geometry or comparing values.
matching		일치하는	proposed	Platform wording for things that correspond (corpus: 일치).	Matching describes objects or properties that correspond. Name the matched property when the interface context does not identify it.
Matchmaker	master matcher	중매쟁이	proposed	No attestation; house voice. The plain, slightly cheeky word for a village matchmaker, as Polish swat.	Matchmaker is a FontLab tool for examining and correcting correspondence between glyph masters. It helps align contour order and start points for interpolation. Matching structures does not guarantee that intermediate outlines look right. Inspect the resulting interpolation; changing contour order or a start point can change correspondence without changing the outline's geometry at the master location.
measurement line		측정선	proposed	No attestation; plain compound of 측정 (measurement) and 선.	A line that shows a measured distance in the drawing. Distinguish this geometric measurement from a metrics line used to calculate sidebearings.
measurements		측정값	proposed	Plain Korean for measured values shown on the canvas; no font-tool attestation.	Values displayed on the canvas to describe geometry, such as coordinates, lengths, angles, tensions and counters. Showing measurements does not modify glyph spacing or font dimensions.
Measurements panel		측정 패널	proposed	Derived from 측정; the panel title itself is 측정, which is no longer than the English.	The Measurements panel lists measured dimensions of the current font: stems, serifs, overshoots, contrast and heights, separately for capitals and lowercase. Its labels are compact; translations must not exceed the English length.
merge		병합	proposed	Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 병합 (23 corpus origins).	Merge combines items into a result. Name the items and explain what is retained when that distinction matters to the operation.
mesh		메시	proposed	Corpus has 메시 nine times and it follows the loanword orthography; Adobe's 망 is its gradient mesh.	A mesh is a network of connected points or cells used to describe or deform geometry. It is distinct from a drawing grid used for alignment.
metrics mode		메트릭스 모드	proposed	Derived from 메트릭스.	The editing mode for adjusting glyph advance widths and sidebearings. It changes the spacing of glyphs rather than the vertical dimensions of the font or the visibility of measurements.
metrics table		메트릭스 표	proposed	Derived; a table in the interface is 표, a table inside a font is 테이블.	The table of glyph spacing values, including advance widths and sidebearings. It lets the user inspect or edit spacing values together.
metrics tool		메트릭스 도구	proposed	Derived from 메트릭스 and 도구 (Glyphs 3: Tools is 도구).	The tool that edits glyph advance widths and sidebearings. Use it to adjust glyph spacing; canvas measurement overlays display values without changing those spacing values.
monospaced		고정폭	proposed	Apple Font Book, CoreText and FontForge use 고정폭 and Sandoll 고정 폭; the KST dictionary's 고정너비 is the rejected alternative.	Monospaced describes text or a typeface whose ordinary spacing glyphs have equal advance widths. Marks and special glyphs can have different spacing behavior.
multi-line		여러 줄	proposed	Adobe and Microsoft use 여러 줄.	Multi-line describes text or a control that contains more than one line. It does not imply more than one paragraph.
nonspacing	zero-width	메트릭스 제외	proposed	No attestation; describes what the property does (excluded from metrics), as German and Polish did. Glyphs 3's 공간이 없는 is a literal calque and is rejected.	A nonspacing element or component is excluded from metrics: it stays visible and is exported, but FontLab ignores it when it computes the advance width and sidebearings. Detect nonspacing marks accents and other marks in composites automatically.
Nudge	push move	넛지	proposed	Glyphs 3 uses 넛지 (노드 넛지 처리), and the word is widely known in Korean. 살짝 밀기 is the plain alternative.	Nudge moves the selected nodes and adjusts the nearby handles so the curve keeps its shape. Power Nudge extends the move to more of the contour. Both are FontLab names.
Oblique		오블리크	proposed	KST dictionary headword; a fixed operation name. Apple's 기울임체 names a style and would read as any slant.	Oblique is FontLab's action that slants a layer and applies a fixed set of optical corrections, so the result is closer to a designed oblique than a plain skew. Keep the name in every language; a plain slant is something else.
panel		패널	proposed	Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and Glyphs 3 use 패널.	A panel groups related controls or information within an application's interface. It may be docked or floating, depending on the application. Use its displayed name followed by panel in lowercase, as in the Kerning panel. Distinguish panels, windows, dialogs and panes by their role and established product terminology, not solely by whether they float, dock or contain tabs.
Pencil		연필	proposed	The real tool's name; 23 corpus origins. Glyphs 3's 연필툴 adds a suffix the English does not have.	The Pencil tool draws freehand, and what it draws on differs by product. In FontLab it converts a freehand gesture into curves and line segments without asking you to think about node types. In Fontographer it is one of three outline drawing tools, beside Pen and Rapid. In Vexy Lines it creates and edits Handmade fills as vector lines. In Vexy Vextra it is the Correcting Pencil, which redraws part of an existing path as readily as it starts a new one.
Power Brush	power calligraphic brush	파워 붓	proposed	No attestation; house voice. 파워 keeps the energy-drink and 파워레인저 wink in Korean; 붓 from Brush.	A Power Brush is a brush whose width can vary along the contour through thickness points. It stays live until you expand it. The name is FontLab's, rendered in each language's house voice.
Power Guide	power guideline	파워 안내선	proposed	No attestation; 파워 plus 안내선.	A Power Guide is a guide that nodes can link to, so moving the guide moves the linked nodes with it. FontLab uses it to keep a stem or a height consistent across a glyph. Each language renders the name with the same playful power.
Power Nudge	power push move	파워 넛지	proposed	No attestation; 파워 plus 넛지.	Power Nudge distributes a move through a larger part of a contour by adjusting other nodes as well as the selected ones. FontLab and Vextra provide this editing mode. It differs from Nudge, which adjusts nearby handles. Power Nudge changes the geometry; inspect the result rather than promising an exactly preserved outline or a finished curve.
Power Stroke	power stroke outline	파워 획	proposed	No attestation; 파워 plus 획. The corpus calque 파워 자획 is rejected.	A Power Stroke is a stroke whose thickness varies along the path, controlled by thickness points you place with the Thickness tool. The related Power Brush does the same for a brush. Both are FontLab names, rendered in each language's house voice.
project		프로젝트	approved	Team agreement recovered from Proteus QPH on 2026-10-04. Project names the editable document; do not replace it with package.	A FontLab project is the editable font document, including the active document in save/close prompts and the document saved to a VFJ/VFC file or project folder or connected to GitHub. Use the project term consistently in this UI. Do not call it a package. Python packages, UFO Packages, Glyphs Packages, and web-font distribution packages are different concepts and retain their format/software terminology. Internal package identifiers and file extensions are not translated.
property bar		속성 막대	proposed	No font-tool attestation; 속성 (properties) and 막대, the Apple and Photoshop word for a bar (옵션 막대, 필터 막대).	The property bar is FontLab's context-sensitive strip of controls for the current tool or selection. Name the required selection or tool before referring to a control that appears only in that context. Use property bar for this product element; do not invent a universal rule that all toolbars have fixed contents.
quick measurement		빠른 측정	proposed	Derived from 측정; no attestation.	The function that displays measurements near the pointer while editing outlines. It reports geometry on the canvas without changing the glyph spacing values.
redo		다시 실행	proposed	Platform wording (33 corpus origins).	Redo reapplies an operation that was undone. Repeat invokes an operation again and is a separate command.
reference		참조	proposed	Adobe, Apple, Microsoft and FontForge use 참조.	A reference points to another object rather than being an independent copy of it. Name the referenced object when the context does not identify it.
Remove Overlap	merge overlapping contours	겹침 제거	proposed	Glyphs 3 says 오버랩 제거 and FontForge 겹쳐진 도형을 제거; the short native noun 겹침 is used instead of the loan.	Remove Overlap combines overlapping filled contour regions and removes their internal boundaries. It changes contour structure, so keep an editable source when the construction matters. Variable fonts can contain overlaps; removing them independently from masters can break point correspondence and interpolation. Apply the command or export option for the intended format and workflow, rather than treating it as mandatory for every font.
repeat		반복	proposed	Platform wording (30 corpus origins); distinct from 다시 실행 (Redo).	Repeat invokes an operation again. Keep it distinct from Redo, which restores an operation after Undo.
reverse contour	flip drawing direction	윤곽선 방향 반전	proposed	Glyphs 3 translates Reverse Contour exactly so.	Reverse contour flips the winding direction of a contour. PostScript and TrueType outlines use opposite conventions, and a contour that runs the wrong way fills or unfills the wrong region.
Scissors		가위	proposed	The real tool's name; Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 가위.	The Scissors tool works on the joins in a path, and what it does with them differs by product. In FontLab it disconnects nodes into overlapping contours, creates overlaps, adds simple ink traps, and builds looped corners, with a toolbox of sub-tools under the Q shortcut. In Fontographer it breaks contours at selected points or segments, the targeted counterpart to Knife. In Vexy Vextra it extends and rebuilds path parts, building loop corners and joining open ends.
Servant node	Follower node	따라가는 노드	proposed	No attestation; translates the fallback Follower node with the plain verb for following a leader's movement. Compact label: 따라가기.	For localization, read the legacy English source label Servant node as Follower node: a follower physically following a leader. This node follows the movement of neighboring key nodes when you move them with Power Nudge, so a whole feature moves together. Translate the motion-following role; the servant and social fan/supporter metaphors are obsolete. The English term and servant-node identifier remain compatibility lookup keys.
Sigma		Sigma	do-not-translate		Sigma is the Fontographer tool for variable font interpolation paths, sitting in the toolbar beside Transform and Meter. You use it to work with how a design moves through its variation space rather than to edit a single outline. The name is a single capitalized word and it does not take the word tool inside its name: write the Sigma tool. It is a Fontographer term with no counterpart in the other products.
Sketchboard	scratch canvas	스케치판	proposed	No attestation; house voice. 스케치 plus the native 판 (board), a plain word instead of the transliteration 스케치보드.	The Sketchboard is FontLab's unlimited canvas, a working surface where you can place glyphs, drawings, and reference images side by side outside the fixed frame of a glyph window. You use it to compare shapes, to sketch before committing, and to lay out material that has no single glyph to live in. The name is one word, capital S, and it is a FontLab term: no other product in the family has the surface or the word.
Skin	wrapping outline	껍질	proposed	No attestation; house voice. The peel or skin that wraps a fruit, as Polish skórka. 스킨 is rejected because in Korean it means a UI theme or a cosmetic toner.	Skin is a FontLab live filter that wraps a contour with a stroke of variable thickness, or cuts it into dashes. Expand the filter to get plain contours. Each language renders the name in the house voice.
smart	clever	스마트	proposed	Glyphs 3 (스마트 필터, 스마트 컴포넌트) and Photoshop (스마트 필터) attest 스마트 for exactly this kind of feature. In Korean it reads as handy and automated (스마트폰), not as an AI claim, so it is kept; 똑똑한 is the plain alternative if the owner wants the native wink.	Smart prefixes FontLab features that decide details for you: Smart Corner, Smart Filter, Smart Pencil, Smart Link, smart fill. Usually translate the word as clever with a hint of cunning. Follow separately approved feature names: the Russian and Ukrainian Smart Filter terms are explicit exceptions.
Smart Corner	clever corner	스마트 모서리	proposed	Derived from 스마트 and 모서리 (corner). Glyphs 3 names its unrelated feature 코너 컴포넌트.	A Smart Corner is a live treatment applied at a node, so a corner can be rounded, cut, or turned into an ink trap without the outline being redrawn. The treatment stays editable: change the value and the corner updates, and the underlying contour keeps its nodes. You apply it at the node rather than to the whole contour. FontLab groups it with Ink Traps among its live filters, and Vextra carries the same name.
Smart Filter		스마트 필터	proposed	Named glyph-selection filter; not a graphical live effect. Match this term in the Font window, Aidus settings, dialogs and help.	A Smart Filter selects glyphs in the Font window using a saved condition. It filters the glyph list rather than changing outlines or applying graphical effects. Follow the language core for its name: Russian and Ukrainian have explicit feature-specific translations that differ from other Smart names.
spacing controls	side space handles	글자사이 컨트롤	proposed	Derived from 글자사이; 컨트롤 is the platform word for an on-screen control. No attestation.	Spacing controls are the on canvas handles in the Metrics tool that let you drag sidebearings and advance widths directly in the text.
sticker		스티커	proposed	Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 스티커.	A sticker is a visual note you place on a glyph in FontLab, such as a checkmark or a comment, to mark work in progress. Stickers are annotations, not font data, and are not exported.
tab		탭	proposed	Universal platform wording.	A tab selects one page or document within a set. A tab character in text is a different meaning and must retain its literal representation in code.
text element	text block	텍스트 요소	proposed	Derived from 요소; Apple attests 텍스트 요소.	A text element is a live element that renders a string of text from another font inside a glyph. Expanding it converts the letters into contours; FontLab uses it for placeholders and quick layout tests.
thickness		두께	proposed	Apple, Microsoft and type designers use 두께 for a measured thickness, distinct from 굵기 (weight).	Thickness is the geometric distance across a stroke or shape. It is distinct from a typeface weight classification or weight axis.
Transform		변형	proposed	Glyphs 3, Illustrator and InDesign call Transform 변형 (17 corpus origins). The corpus pick 스케일 is only scaling.	Transform moves, scales, rotates, slants, or flips a selection. In FontLab the Transform panel applies a numeric transformation to glyphs, elements, or a selection, and it can run across a whole font. In Fontographer the Transform tool sits in the toolbar beside Meter and Sigma. In Vexy Lines the Transform tool manipulates artwork on the canvas. A panel, a tool, and a tool again: name the app and name the surface.
transformation		변형	proposed	Same noun as Transform; Korean does not separate the operation from its result. 변환 is kept for conversion.	A transformation changes geometry, for example by moving, scaling, rotating or skewing it. Transform names the operation; transformation names the change.
True Fill	final black rendering	진짜 채우기	proposed	No attestation; house voice. The everyday word for real, with 채우기.	True Fill is a Glyph window view that renders the glyph as it will fill when exported, honoring contour direction and overlaps, instead of the editing preview. Each language renders the name in the house voice.
uncheck		선택 해제	proposed	Apple and general platform wording.	Uncheck clears a selected checkbox. The resulting behavior depends on the option controlled by that checkbox.
Vexy coins		Vexy coins	do-not-translate		Vexy coins are credits used to pay for applicable Fontographer operations. Keep Vexy capitalized and coins lowercase in English. The common noun may translate around the protected Vexy name. State a confirmed charge before the reader performs the operation, and distinguish the credit balance from money, a licence or an account.
waterfall	size ladder preview	폭포	proposed	Apple Font Book calls this size-ladder sample 폭포. A descriptive 크기별 미리보기 is the alternative if the image does not carry.	A waterfall shows the same glyph or text at a series of sizes, one line per size, to judge spacing and rendering across sizes. The Preview panel and the TrueType hinting tool provide one.
weight		굵기	proposed	The KST dictionary and Sandoll use 굵기 for typeface weight; 가중치 and 무게 are other senses, and 두께 is kept for measured thickness.	Weight describes the relative heaviness of a typeface or a value on its weight axis. It is distinct from a measured stroke thickness.
whitespace		공백	proposed	Adobe, Apple and Microsoft use 공백.	Whitespace is text made up of spacing characters rather than visible letterforms. Preserve literal characters when they form part of code, keys or file content.

Vector drawing

English	Fallback	Korean	Status	Note	Definition
Appearance panel		모양 패널	proposed	Illustrator's Korean interface calls the Appearance panel 모양 패널.	The Appearance panel is Illustrator's list of what is applied to the selected object: its fills, its strokes, and its live effects, in the order they stack. You send a reader there to confirm that a Vexy effect is present, to reorder it against a stroke, or to remove it. It belongs to Illustrator rather than to our products, so its name keeps Illustrator's capitalization and never takes a short form of our making.
autotrace	bitmap to outline conversion	자동 추적	proposed	Adobe's Image Trace is 이미지 추적 and the corpus has 자동 추적; FontForge keeps autotrace in English.	Autotrace converts a bitmap into vector paths by finding the edges in the image and fitting curves to them. The result depends on what you feed it: a clean, high contrast source traces well, and a soft or noisy one produces nodes nobody wants to edit. You prepare the image first, trace, then simplify. Tracing to outlines gives closed shapes with two edges, and tracing to centerlines gives single paths with a stroke.
centerline		중심선	proposed	Standard Korean for a centre line; attested in the Microsoft glossary.	A centerline runs down the middle of a stroke rather than around its edge, so the result is a single path with a stroke weight instead of a closed outline. Tracing to centerlines suits line art, engravings, and anything that was drawn as strokes in the first place. You choose it over outline tracing when the artwork will be scaled or restroked later, since a centerline keeps one editable path where an outline gives you two edges to maintain.
clipping mask		클리핑 마스크	proposed	Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft use 클리핑 마스크.	A clipping mask is a shape that limits what is visible of the elements below it. Name the application: in FontLab it is an element property; a FontLab Mask layer is something else.
control point	control handle point	제어점	proposed	FontForge and Korean mathematics use 제어점 for a Bézier control point; 컨트롤 포인트 is the rejected loan.	A control point is an off-curve point that pulls a Bézier segment toward itself without lying on the outline. You drag it to change the curvature between two nodes. FontLab shows control points as handles attached to their nodes, so in interface text the handle is what you drag and the control point is what the file stores.
Fill Grid	grid of fill lines	채우기 그리드	proposed	Derived from 채우기 and 그리드; no attestation.	The Fill Grid is the area of the Linestra panel where you choose a fill mode from a grid of previews. Below it sit the parameter rows, which hold Thickness, Spacing, Angle, Organic, Brightness, Contrast, and Source Levels. You pick in the grid first, because the parameter rows change with the mode you choose. Both words are capitalized: it is a named part of the interface rather than a description of a grid.
fill mode	line fill style	채우기 모드	proposed	Derived from 채우기; the corpus attests 채우기 모드.	A fill mode is one of the named techniques that turn a source image into line work: Linear, Wave, Circular, Spiral, Halftone, Stipple, Hex, Contour, Low-Poly, Dither, Wireframe, Fractal, String Art, and ASCII among them. Each reads the brightness of the source and lays down geometry accordingly. You pick a mode, then tune its parameters. Write the mode name with its own capitalization and the words fill mode in lowercase after it.
G2 continuity		G2 연속성	proposed	Standard CAD and mathematics wording.	G2 continuity means two segments meet with matching curvature, not merely with matching direction. G1 keeps the tangent continuous and can still show a break in the reflection where the curvature jumps. G2 removes that break. Vextra marks G2 nodes and can enforce the condition as you edit. You reach for it on long, shallow curves and on shapes that will be seen large, where the eye finds a curvature break that it would miss at text size.
Live Effect	editable effect	라이브 효과	proposed	No verified attestation of the phrase; 효과 is Illustrator's Korean menu name for effects and 라이브 the loan Illustrator users know from 라이브 페인트.	A Live Effect is an Illustrator effect that stays editable on the object it is applied to, listed in the Appearance panel and recalculated whenever the artwork beneath it changes. Vexy Linestra runs as one, so its fills follow the source artwork rather than freezing into it. You apply it from the Effect menu, under Vexy, and you expand it only when you need the result as plain paths. Expanding ends the link.
off-curve point	point off the curve	곡선 밖 점	proposed	No attestation; fallback (point off the curve) translated. FontForge transliterates as 오프 커브 포인트.	An off-curve point sits beside the outline and shapes a curve without touching it. A cubic segment has two, a quadratic segment one or more. FontLab shows them as handles. Use the term when the file structure is the subject; use handle when the reader drags something.
on-curve point	point on the curve	곡선 위 점	proposed	No attestation; fallback (point on the curve) translated, parallel to 곡선 밖 점.	An on-curve point lies on the outline itself and is where two segments meet. In FontLab it is a node; the term is used when the contrast with off-curve points matters, for example when a TrueType outline stores both kinds in one list. You place on-curve points at extremes so hinting and interpolation have stable anchors.
outline		아웃라인	proposed	Glyphs 3 (아웃라인 채우기, 손상된 아웃라인), FontForge and KST's 아웃라인폰트 use the loan for the whole drawing, which keeps it apart from 윤곽선 (one contour). Adobe's 윤곽선 for outline is the rejected alternative.	An outline is the set of contours that describes a glyph's shape. Say outline for the whole drawing of a glyph and contour for one closed path inside it. Some languages have one word for both; French uses contour for each.
stroke		획	proposed	Glyphs 3 (Stroke is 획) and Illustrator's Stroke panel (획 패널) agree. The loan 스트로크 (FontForge; KST for a letter stroke) is rejected.	A stroke is the line drawn along a path, with a weight, a colour, and an alignment that puts it inside, outside, or centred on the path. It is not the fill, which covers the area the path encloses. In type design the same word means a main part of a letter. The localized vector term does not automatically apply to letter anatomy: PANOSE contrast and stem thickness describe letter strokes, not an outline effect. Use the established anatomical term in those contexts (for example Polish kreska or Ukrainian штрих).
stroke cap	stroke end cap	획 끝모양	proposed	The Adobe evidence gives 획 끝모양 for the shape at the end of a stroke.	A stroke cap is the shape at the open end of a stroked path: flat, square or round. Start and end caps can differ, and a cap can be linked so both ends match.
stroke join	stroke corner shape	획 모서리	proposed	No fixed term; fallback (stroke corner shape) translated with 모서리. Adobe's Stroke panel labels it 모퉁이 or 연결.	A stroke join is the shape where two stroked segments meet at a corner: miter, round or bevel. It decides whether an outside corner is sharp, rounded or cut.
tangent node	straight-to-curve node	접선 노드	proposed	Corpus attests 접선 노드; 접선 is the geometry term for a tangent.	A tangent node joins a straight segment to a curve so the curve leaves along the line. Its one handle stays on the line's extension.
tonal map	darkness map	톤 맵	proposed	No attestation; 톤 is the designers' word for tonal value and 맵 the usual loan for a map of values.	A tonal map is the reading of brightness across a source image that a fill uses to decide where to put geometry. Dark areas widen a strip or crowd a pattern; light areas narrow or thin it. You control the mapping with the Brightness, Contrast, and Source Levels rows, which change what counts as dark before any geometry is drawn. Adjust the map rather than the fill when the result is uniformly too heavy or too sparse.
Tunni line		Tunni 선	proposed	Eponym kept in Latin, noun translated.	A Tunni line joins the two handles of a curve segment, with a control on it that Vextra draws as a pill. Drag the control and both handles move in proportion, so the depth of the curve changes without its balance changing. You use it when a curve is the right shape but the wrong fullness, which is the correction that is slowest to make one handle at a time. Named after Eduardo Tunni, so keep the capital T.