APP COMRADE

Samsung Galaxy / Font / BAYOURHEART(BA너의마음은)™ LATIN AND KOREAN FLIPFONT

REVIEW

BaYourHeart is a handwritten Korean-Latin Flipfont that mostly does the job.

A Monotype-built FlipFont pairing a soft, handwritten Hangul face with a matching Latin set. It looks good on a Galaxy home screen, until you notice which weights aren't there.

BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 4 MIN READ

Samsung Galaxy

BaYourHeart(Ba너의마음은)™ Latin and Korean Flipfont

MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.

OUR SCORE

6.7

SAMSUNG GALAXY

★ 5.0

PRICE

Paid

Samsung’s FlipFont catalogue is one of the stranger corners of the Galaxy Store. It is a paid market for a single design decision — what your phone’s text looks like — sold one typeface at a time, by foundries that mostly do their serious work licensing fonts to operating systems and brands. BaYourHeart is Monotype’s contribution to the bilingual Korean-Latin slice of that shelf, and it is one of the rare paid FlipFonts that earns its asking price on the Hangul side rather than the Latin one.

The hook is in the name. “BaYourHeart (Ba너의마음은)” reads as a soft greeting in both scripts, and the typeface follows through — handwritten without being twee, casual without losing legibility at small sizes. On a Galaxy device that already lives in two languages a day, it is the kind of personalisation that actually changes how the phone feels to look at, rather than the kind that wears off in a week.

What it cannot do is escape the format it lives in. FlipFonts are still single-weight, still Samsung-only, still gated behind a Settings detour, and BaYourHeart inherits every one of those constraints. The question is whether the drawing is good enough to be worth the friction, and on the Hangul side it just about is.

It is one of the rare paid FlipFonts that earns its asking price on the Hangul side rather than the Latin one.

FEATURES

BaYourHeart is a Monotype FlipFont — a system-font replacement that One UI loads through the Galaxy Store's font picker rather than as a regular app you launch. Install, open Settings, change the device font, and the new face renders across the OS, the keyboard, most first-party apps, and any third-party app that respects the system typeface.

The point of this particular FlipFont is bilingual coverage. It ships a hand-drawn Hangul set alongside a Latin set that visually rhymes with it — same stroke energy, same informal weight, same gently rounded terminals. That matters in a category where most "Korean" FlipFonts either swap only the Hangul glyphs and leave Latin as system default, or vice versa, leaving you with a mismatched render the moment your screen mixes scripts.

Like every paid FlipFont, this one is locked to Samsung Galaxy devices running One UI with the FlipFont framework enabled, and the licence is per-account, not per-device. There is no free tier and no preview inside the listing beyond the icon and store metadata.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

The Hangul is the reason to buy. The character shapes have an actual handwritten cadence — slightly uneven baselines, varied stroke widths, a calligraphic lean — without crossing into illegibility at notification-line sizes. On a Galaxy S24 lock screen and in KakaoTalk message bubbles it reads as friendly rather than novelty, which is a narrow target most handwritten FlipFonts miss in one direction or the other.

The Latin companion is the other genuine win. It is not just Open Sans with the metrics shoved around — it has been drawn to sit next to the Hangul without one script feeling louder than the other. For users who message bilingually all day, that consistency is the entire pitch.

ROOM TO IMPROVE

There is one weight. That is the FlipFont format's fault more than this typeface's, but it is still the lived experience: headings, body, captions, and keyboard labels all render at the same drawn weight, and One UI's own size and bold controls cannot rescue hierarchy the font itself doesn't offer. Anyone who relies on Samsung's bold-text accessibility toggle will find it does very little here.

Activation is also still a Galaxy Store ritual rather than a system-font picker. The app installs, but the font does not appear in Settings until you have opened the FlipFont section, accepted the licence, and in some One UI builds rebooted. Monotype cannot fix that, but it is worth knowing before you blame the typeface for not showing up.

CONCLUSION

Buy it if you message in Hangul and Latin every day and want a single drawn-by-hand voice across both. Skip it if you need real weight variation, or if you are on a non-Samsung Android device where FlipFonts do not apply. For a more neutral bilingual pick, Monotype's own Rosemary Korean FlipFont is the safer everyday face on the same storefront.