Samsung Galaxy / Font / AARACOONGULIM™ KOREAN FLIPFONT
REVIEW
AaRacoonGulim is a friendly Hangul Flipfont built for one specific reader.
Monotype's Korean Gulim variant swaps Samsung's stock system typeface for something rounder and warmer. If you read Korean on your Galaxy, that is the entire pitch.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
AaRacoonGulim™ Korean Flipfont
MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.
OUR SCORE
5.6
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Paid
Samsung’s Flipfont system is one of the last places on a modern phone where you pay real money for a single typeface. The premise is narrow — install an app, the app registers a font with One UI, the font becomes your system face — but for the right reader it is the kind of small daily-use change that justifies the few dollars.
AaRacoonGulim is Monotype’s friendly Korean entry in that catalogue. The shape is a softened Gulim — a Hangul style with rounded terminals and slightly informal proportions, paired with a workmanlike Latin alphabet so English UI strings on the same device do not look orphaned. It is a single typeface sold as an app, and it lives or dies by whether the system font is something you actually look at.
If you do not read Korean, none of this matters. If you do, and you are on a Galaxy phone, the question is only whether this particular Gulim variant is the one you want pinned to every notification and menu for the next year. That is a taste call, and Monotype gives you no preview to make it with.
It is a single typeface sold as an app, and it lives or dies by whether the system font is something you actually look at.
FEATURES
AaRacoonGulim is a Monotype Flipfont — a single typeface packaged as an Android app that registers itself with Samsung's system-font picker. Install it, open Settings, change the device font, and every menu, label, and message body across One UI redraws in the new face. There is no app to launch and nothing to configure inside it.
The typeface itself is a Gulim-family Hangul design — rounded, slightly informal, with the soft curves the "Aa Racoon" branding implies. It carries a Latin companion alphabet alongside the Korean syllable blocks, so an English-language UI on the same device still looks consistent rather than mismatched. Numerals and punctuation are included.
Distribution is Galaxy-Store-only and Samsung-FlipFont-only. It will not install on a Pixel, will not work as an app font for Instagram or Notion, and cannot be mixed and matched per app. It is a system-wide swap or nothing.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
As a Hangul system font, it does the job cleanly. The character spacing reads well at small sizes in notification text and message bubbles, the strokes hold up at the heavier weights One UI uses for headings, and there are no obvious rendering glitches when Korean and Latin text sit on the same line.
For a Korean-reading Samsung user who finds the stock SamsungOne or SamsungSharpSans typefaces too clinical, the warmer Gulim shape is a real change of register — the kind of small daily-use tweak that personalisation buyers actually notice every time they unlock the phone.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The product is, by definition, one typeface. There is no weight slider, no per-app override, no preview before purchase, and no way to recover the install if you switch off Samsung. Monotype's Flipfont catalogue is enormous and several of the Korean entries occupy the same design space, so the choice between Aa Racoon Gulim and its siblings comes down to taste rather than capability.
The bigger structural issue is the model itself. Paying upfront for a single system font in 2026 — when Android proper, iOS, and most reading apps all support runtime font selection from large free libraries — is an awkward sell. The Galaxy Store ecosystem keeps Flipfont alive, but the format has not evolved.
CONCLUSION
Buy it if you read Korean daily on a Samsung phone and the stock face has worn thin. Skip it if you are not on Samsung, do not read Hangul, or expected anything more than a single typeface. For variety, browse the rest of Monotype's Galaxy Store shelf before settling — the prices are similar and the shapes vary more than the marketing copy suggests.