Samsung Galaxy / Font / BYCOVERWITHLOVE™ KOREAN FLIPFONT
REVIEW
ByCoverWithLove is a sweet Korean Flipfont that knows exactly what it is.
A handwritten Korean-Latin display face from Monotype's Flipfont catalogue, sold for the price of a coffee. It does one job on Samsung phones, and on those phones it does it well.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
ByCoverWithLove™ Korean Flipfont
MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Paid
Flipfont is a relic of a feature, but a well-drawn Korean handwriting face is a well-drawn Korean handwriting face. ByCoverWithLove is the latter wrapped in the former — a small Monotype package that gives a Samsung phone a softer, more personal Hangul voice for the cost of a snack.
There is nothing to learn here and nothing to configure. The app exists to register a single typeface with One UI’s font-style picker, and the design work is in the face itself, not the wrapper. That makes a review almost entirely a review of the typography, which is a strange and slightly nostalgic position to write from in 2026.
What’s left to say is that the face is genuinely nice — warmer than the default, less twee than most of its shelf-mates, and metrically careful in a way that pays off the moment you mix Korean and English in a notification. Whether it’s worth installing depends almost entirely on how much of your phone still listens to Flipfont at all.
Flipfont is a relic of a feature, but a well-drawn Korean handwriting face is a well-drawn Korean handwriting face.
FEATURES
ByCoverWithLove is a Flipfont package — a single typeface delivered through Samsung's legacy font-switching system. Install it from the Galaxy Store, open Settings, Display, Font Style, pick the new face, and your system text changes everywhere Samsung still honours the swap: home screen, settings, dialer, stock messages, some first-party apps.
The face itself is a soft handwritten display with both Hangul and basic Latin coverage. Strokes have a slight pen-pressure curve at the entries and exits, and the Hangul jamo carry the same brush warmth as the alphabet — a quietly consistent design choice that not every Korean Flipfont gets right. Monotype owns the underlying foundry pipeline, which shows in the metrics: line height stays sensible at notification sizes and the Hangul doesn't collide with itself in dense settings menus.
There are no settings, no preview screen inside the app itself, no companion features. It installs, it registers with One UI's font switcher, and it gets out of the way.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
As a piece of typography, the face is more thoughtful than the Flipfont price point usually buys. Korean handwriting fonts on the Galaxy Store skew either childishly bouncy or stiffly geometric; this one lands in a softer middle that reads as personal without becoming hard to scan. For a Galaxy owner who wants their messaging app to feel handwritten without breaking legibility, it's a defensible pick.
Monotype's quiet advantage is also boring infrastructure. The Hangul-Latin pairing is metrically aligned, so mixing English app names with Korean menu copy doesn't produce the baseline drift you see in cheaper third-party Flipfonts.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
Flipfont itself is the elephant in the room. Samsung has been steadily narrowing the surface area where custom fonts apply — third-party apps, web views, and an increasing list of system surfaces ignore the swap entirely in recent One UI builds. You will see this face in some places and the default Samsung Sans in others, with no clear logic.
The app also offers no preview before purchase. You commit to the typeface based on the Galaxy Store thumbnails, which compress the curves badly and underrepresent the design. A built-in sample screen — even a static PNG — would close the gap between what the font is and what shoppers think they're buying.
CONCLUSION
Worth the few dollars if you own a recent Galaxy device, use Korean as a system language or in messaging, and like the look in the store thumbnails enough to take the small bet. Skip it on any non-Samsung Android, where Flipfont simply does not exist. Watch for whether Samsung quietly retires the font-switcher in a future One UI — the typeface is good, but the delivery system is on borrowed time.