Samsung Galaxy / Font / MJTHATSPRING™ KOREAN FLIPFONT
REVIEW
MjThatSpring Flipfont sells you the next page of a four-season calendar.
Monotype's spring-themed Korean Flipfont is the warm-weather companion to its winter sibling — a paid Galaxy Store typeface tuned to a season your phone is otherwise oblivious to.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
MjThatSpring™ Korean Flipfont
MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.
OUR SCORE
6.6
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Paid
There is a quiet pleasure to changing your phone for the season. Most devices give you a wallpaper and call it done; Samsung’s Flipfont system, stubbornly alive after more than a decade, still lets you swap the actual typeface the OS speaks in. MjThatSpring is Monotype’s bid for the warm-weather slot in that habit — a Korean Hangul Flipfont sold on the Galaxy Store with a season for a name and a sibling already on the shelf next to it.
The pitch is not the typeface so much as the rhythm of swapping one in when the weather changes. Bought on its own, MjThatSpring is a competent Korean face from a competent foundry. Bought as the second instalment after MjThatWinter, it is part of a small ritual — open Settings, scroll to Font style, and let the phone admit that the calendar has moved on.
That ritual is also the ceiling. There is no preview in the listing, no Latin companion, and no escape from the fact that Flipfonts only colour the parts of the phone Samsung itself renders. You are paying for a mood, applied to a fraction of the surface area you actually look at. Whether that is worth a few thousand won depends entirely on whether you are the kind of person who notices the typeface in their notification shade — and, if you are, whether you noticed when winter ended.
The pitch is not the typeface so much as the rhythm of swapping one in when the weather changes.
FEATURES
MjThatSpring is a Korean Flipfont from Monotype, sold through the Galaxy Store as a paid download. Flipfonts have been Samsung's official route for swapping the system typeface for more than a decade — once installed, the new face shows up under Settings → Display → Font size and style → Font style, and from there it propagates across the OS chrome: notifications, contacts, the dialler, Settings itself.
The Mj family is Monotype's themed Hangul shelf inside that catalogue, and MjThatSpring is the spring entry. It sits next to MjThatWinter on the same storefront, from the same foundry, sold at the same kind of price point. The naming is the entire taxonomy — buy the season you are in, swap it out when the weather turns.
The Galaxy Store listing itself is sparse in the way this corner of the storefront tends to be. No screenshots, no English description, no body-size specimen. You are paying for a face you will only really see once it is sitting under your status bar, and the listing assumes you already know what to expect from a Monotype Korean Flipfont.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The seasonal pitch is the real product, and it is a small, likeable one. A phone is one of the few objects in daily life that lets you change its skin to match the calendar, and Monotype is one of the few foundries still bothering to ship into that ritual. For Galaxy owners who already rotate Flipfonts each season, MjThatSpring slots into a year you have already designed.
The Hangul drawing itself is solid foundry work — readable at notification sizes, decorative enough at headline sizes to register as a spring face rather than a generic sans. Reversion is two taps if you change your mind, which is the right safety net for a paid system-wide visual change.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The same Flipfont caveats from the winter sibling apply, and the spring listing inherits them wholesale. Coverage stops at Samsung's own surfaces — Chrome, Gmail, KakaoTalk, and most apps with their own typography ignore your purchase and render in their own faces. The seasonal motif you paid for is invisible inside the app you use most.
No Latin glyph set ships with it, so English fragments in a Korean message thread fall back to the default system face and the typographic illusion breaks mid-sentence. And the listing's transparency problem is the same as before: a typeface sold without a single body-size preview is asking buyers to trust the family name. The Mj family has earned some of that trust over the years; new shoppers walking in cold have no way to know that.
CONCLUSION
Buy it if you already own MjThatWinter and want the next page of the calendar, or if a Korean spring face from a known foundry is a small upgrade you do not need to think about twice. Skip it if you are arriving at Flipfonts for the first time — start with a free preview from the same catalogue, learn the install loop, then decide whether a seasonal rotation is a habit you want to subscribe to.