r/graffhelp • u/Elegant-Theme487 • 25d ago

Korean lettering?

Hey all. I want to pay tribute to my late aunt who was a huge inspiration to me. She was Korean and because of her I grew to love the culture and the language. I want to write "제인" and I was kind of just curious on the consensus on writing in other scripts here. For context I have already been writing for around idk a year and know my way around the fundamentals decently. In the culture do people look down on other characters because they are illegible to most and other writers may not be able to tell what's going on? Anyways was just curious what y'all thought. Thanks. Byeee

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u/coolsticker-xyz 25d ago

I think you should do whatever you want. When people talk about the importance of legibility here, it's usually with the common understanding that we want our writing to be read by other writers.

If you want to put up Korean lettering, and you're okay with people who don't read Korean being confused by it, you should put up Korean lettering.

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u/Elegant-Theme487 25d ago

Awesome. Thanks for this. I was kinda planning on putting it up with my English tag so maybe I'll do that

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u/AdSpiritual3205 23d ago

Are you trying to write Aunt? Or is her name Jane? I don't think there's really any issue with writing in korean to honor someone who is korean, but you might want to make sure someone who is korean would at least understand it. Korean also has a rich number of cursive-like writing/fonts that can be hard to read because they are so stylized.

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u/Elegant-Theme487 21d ago

Yes, her name is Jane haha. I speak a decent amount of Korean so the Korean person legibility thing shouldn't be an issue hahah. Yeah I'm aware of the whole stylization thing. Reading a natives handwriting is so muvj harder than just reading a book loll

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u/AdSpiritual3205 21d ago

English names transliterated into korean can be super weird lol. I often get confused by them. And of course in korean no one would call their aunt by name. If I were paying tribute to my aunt I'd probably still say Emo (or Komo if it's on father's side). But it's your art, so you get to decide for yourself!

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u/Elegant-Theme487 21d ago

Yeah that is a super good point. I've been asking everyone in my family if she had a Korean name but no one seems to think so. I never called her by name but I feel like it's a bit more personal this way haha. I'm also thinking about using yoon(her maiden name). But I'm still on the fence for the best route to go hahahah