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REVIEW

MjThatWinter Flipfont is a Korean typeface that wears its season on its sleeve.

Monotype's winter-themed Korean Flipfont is a paid system-font swap for Galaxy phones. The naming sets the mood; the install ritual is still the same Galaxy two-step.

BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ

Samsung Galaxy

MjThatWinter™ Korean Flipfont

MONOTYPE IMAGING INC.

OUR SCORE

6.5

SAMSUNG GALAXY

★ 5.0

PRICE

Paid

A Flipfont named after a season is a small, charming idea. You buy a typeface, you flip a setting, and for a few months your phone looks like it knows what time of year it is. MjThatWinter is Monotype’s entry in that conceit — a Korean Hangul face packaged for Samsung’s long-running custom-font system, sold from the Galaxy Store to anyone willing to pay for a mood.

The product itself is plain enough: a Flipfont, Korean-glyph forward, with no English description and no preview screenshots in the listing. Monotype has been shipping into this corner of the Galaxy Store for years, and the assumption is that you already know what a Flipfont is and what their Mj family looks like. If you do not, the listing will not catch you up.

What carries the purchase is the ritual. Samsung’s Settings → Display → Font style screen is one of the last places on a modern phone where you genuinely change the look of the OS, and a winter-themed Korean face is a reasonable thing to spend a few minutes installing. The charm is in the conceit — a font named after a season, sold to a phone that lets you change its skin.

The charm is in the conceit — a font named after a season, sold to a phone that lets you change its skin.

FEATURES

MjThatWinter is a Korean-language Flipfont from Monotype, packaged as a paid Galaxy Store download. Flipfonts are Samsung's long-running mechanism for swapping the system typeface across the OS chrome — notifications, menus, contacts, the keypad — without rooting the device or sideloading a font file.

The install loop is the part most buyers underestimate. Download from the Galaxy Store, then open Settings → Display → Font size and style → Font style, where the new face shows up as a selectable option. From that moment everything Samsung renders in the system font picks up the new shape. Stock apps follow along; third-party apps that ship their own typography do not.

The face itself is a Korean Hangul design tuned to a winter motif — the "That Winter" naming is the whole pitch. There are no screenshots in the Galaxy Store listing and no English description, which is on-brand for this corner of the Flipfont catalogue: you are expected to recognise the family from its sibling releases and trust the preview your phone shows you in Settings.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

The Flipfont mechanism still does what it was built to do. Once installed, the swap is system-wide on Samsung surfaces, persists across reboots, and can be reverted in two taps. For Korean readers who want their Galaxy phone to look like it's dressed for the season, the delivery is clean.

Monotype's foundry work is the other quiet win. The Hangul rendering is competent at small notification sizes, which is where a system font lives or dies, and the winter styling reads as decorative rather than illegible.

ROOM TO IMPROVE

The Galaxy Store listing offers almost nothing to evaluate before paying. No description, no screenshots, no specimen of the face at body size — you are buying on the family name and a 512-pixel icon. For a typeface, that is the wrong order of operations.

The Flipfont format is also showing its age. Coverage stops at Samsung's system UI; Chrome, most messaging apps, and anything with its own font stack render in their own typefaces, so the seasonal motif you paid for shows up in fewer places than you would expect. And there is no Latin companion — English text on a Korean-only Flipfont falls back to the default face, which can read as an unfinished thought when you switch languages mid-message.

CONCLUSION

Buy it if you already swap Flipfonts seasonally and want a Korean-Hangul winter face from a known foundry. Skip it if you are new to Flipfonts, do most of your reading inside apps that override the system font, or expect Latin glyphs to come along for the ride. For Galaxy users browsing Monotype's Korean catalogue, the Mj family is the easier shelf to start on than the more abstract entries beside it.