Noto fonts
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Category | Sans-serif (humanist); serif (transitional); non-Latin |
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Classification | Sans-serif (humanist); serif (transitional); non-Latin |
Commissioned by | |
Date created | 2012–2020 |
Date released | 2013 |
License | SIL Open Font License & Apache License |
Website | www![]() |
Noto is a font family comprising over 100 individual fonts, which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. As of October 2016, Noto fonts cover all 93 scripts defined in Unicode version 6.1 (April 2012), although fewer than 30,000 of the nearly 75,000 CJK unified ideographs in version 6.0 are covered. In total Noto fonts cover nearly 64,000 characters,[citation needed] which is under half of the 143,859 characters defined in Unicode 13.0 (released in March 2020).
The Noto family is designed with the goal of achieving visual harmony (e.g., compatible heights and stroke thicknesses) across multiple languages/scripts. Commissioned by Google, the font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License.[1] Until September 2015, the fonts were under the Apache License 2.0.[2]
Etymology[]
When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes that text will contain a character that cannot be displayed, because no font that contains it is installed on the computer. When this happens, a substitute character (typically a small rectangle) is shown to represent it. Those small rectangles have sometimes been called by the slang name tofu because of their visual similarity to the food of the same name.
Google's aim for Noto (whose name is derived from no more tofu) is to remove this kind of 'tofu' from the Web.[3][4]
Characteristics[]
Emoji[]
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The Noto Emoji Project provides color and black-and-white emoji fonts. The color version is used on the Gmail, Google Chat, Google Meet,[5] Google Hangouts, and YouTube web apps, as well as the Android, Wear OS,[6] and Chrome OS[7] operating systems. It is also used on the Slack apps on Windows, Linux, and Android.[8]
Latin, Greek and Cyrillic[]
Noto Sans and Noto Serif, which contain Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, are derived from Droid fonts.[9] They are designed by Steve Matteson.[10]
CJK[]
Noto CJK fonts are rebranded versions of Adobe Source Han fonts, developed by Adobe and Google which contains Chinese characters, Hangul and Kana;[11] Latin-script letters and numerals are taken from the Source Pro fonts.[12]
In addition to the standard distributions, Ken Lunde of Adobe maintains a "Super" OpenType Collection (OTC) version that provides the families under two names at once. Since OTCs reuse existing glyphs, such a file containing both Noto and Source fonts is only 200KB larger than one containing only Source fonts.[13]
Coverage[]
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As of 29 December 2020 there are 195 Noto fonts, of which 156 are sans-serif style, 29 are serif style, and the remaining 10 fonts are not classified as serif or sans-serif.[14] The Noto Color Emoji font only works under Android and Linux, and cannot be installed under macOS or Microsoft Windows.[15]
The Noto fonts cover 150 out of the 154 scripts defined in Unicode version 13.0 (released in March 2020), as well as various syllables and emoji which do not belong to a specific script.
As of October 2016, all scripts encoded up to Unicode version 6.0 (released October 2010) were covered by Noto fonts, although not all characters defined in Unicode version 6.0 were covered. In particular, only about 30,000 of the 74,616 CJK unified ideographs defined in Unicode version 6.0 were covered by Noto fonts. None of the 53 scripts and 1 block encoded between Unicode versions 6.1 and 11.0 were covered by Noto fonts, although some symbols, emoji, and characters added to existing scripts after version 6.0 were covered. It is a design goal for 'Phase 3' to cover all characters in Unicode version 9.0 except for most of CJK unified ideographs outside the Basic Multilingual Plane.[16]
The Noto Sans Symbols fonts include a large variety of symbols, including alchemical signs, dingbats, numbers and letters enclosed in circles for lists, playing cards, domino and Mahjong tiles, chess piece icons, Greek, Byzantine and regular musical symbols and arrow symbols. Among mathematical symbols, it includes blackboard bold glyphs, a mathematical sans-serif font modeled on Helvetica, Fraktur and script fonts, hexagrams, and Aegean numerals.
As of April 2021, the Noto fonts in the GitHub repo have this coverage of Unicode 13:[17]
Noto | Unicode | % of Unicode | |
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Non-CJK | 46794 | 49256 | 95.0% |
CJK | 30867 | 94442 | 32.7% |
All Unicode | 77661 | 143698 | 54.0% |
List of Noto fonts[]
Font face | Version | Styles | Characters | Glyphs | Unicode scripts |
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Noto Mono | 1.00 | Regular | 875 | 897 | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic |
Noto Color Emoji | 2.017 | Regular | Emoji | ||
Noto Emoji | 1.05 uh | Regular | 887 | 888 | Emoji |
Noto Kufi Arabic | 1.04 | Regular Bold |
473 | 762 (regular) 763 (bold) |
Arabic (Kufic style) |
Noto Naskh Arabic | 1.06 | Regular Bold |
1122 | 1533 (regular) 1540 (bold) |
Arabic (Naskh style) |
Noto Nastaliq Urdu | 1.02 uh | Regular | 267 | 1133 | Arabic (Nastaʿlīq style) |
Noto Sans | 2.000 | Normal, SemiCondensed, Condensed and ExtraCondensed in these weights: Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Extra-Bold and Black. Available in upright styles and italics.[18] | 2785 | 3246 | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic |
Noto Sans Adlam | 2.000 | Regular | 96 | 371 | Adlam |
Noto Sans Adlam Unjoined | 2.000 | Regular | 96 | 99 | Adlam |
Noto Sans Anatolian Hieroglyphs | 2.000 | Regular | 588 | 589 | Anatolian Hieroglyphs |
Noto Sans Armenian | 2.03 | Regular Bold |
97 | 98 | Armenian |
Noto Sans Avestan | 1.04 uh | Regular | 70 | 73 | Avestan |
Noto Sans Balinese | 1.03 uh | Regular | 130 | 182 | Balinese |
Noto Sans Bamum | 1.03 uh | Regular | 662 | 661 | Bamum |
Noto Sans Batak | 1.05 uh | Regular | 61 | 61 | Batak |
Noto Sans Bengali | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
153 | 577 | Bengali |
Noto Sans Brahmi | 1.03 uh | Regular | 113 | 182 | Brahmi |
Noto Sans Buginese | 1.05 uh | Regular | 40 | 63 | Buginese |
Noto Sans Buhid | 1.03 uh | Regular | 27 | 39 | Buhid |
Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal | 1.03 uh | Regular | 722 | 744 | Canadian Aboriginal syllabics |
Noto Sans Carian | 1.05 uh | Regular | 54 | 53 | Carian |
Noto Sans Chakma | 2.000 | Regular | 94 | 193 | Chakma |
Noto Sans Cham | 1.02 | Regular Bold |
119 | 127 | Cham |
Noto Sans Cherokee | 1.03 uh | Regular | 90 | 89 | Cherokee |
Noto Sans CJK JP | 1.004 | Thin Light DemiLight Regular Medium Bold Black |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Japanese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans CJK KR | 1.004 | Thin Light DemiLight Regular Medium Bold Black |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Korean style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans CJK SC | 1.004 | Thin Light DemiLight Regular Medium Bold Black |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Simplified Chinese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans CJK TC | 1.004 | Thin Light DemiLight Regular Medium Bold Black |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Traditional Chinese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans Coptic | 1.03 uh | Regular | 159 | 192 | Coptic |
Noto Sans Cuneiform | 1.05 uh | Regular | 987 | 986 | Cuneiform |
Noto Sans Cypriot | 1.03 uh | Regular | 60 | 59 | Cypriot |
Noto Sans Deseret | 1.02 uh | Regular | 85 | 84 | Deseret |
Noto Sans Devanagari | 1.06 | Regular Bold |
265 | 901 (regular) 906 (bold) |
Devanagari |
Noto Sans Display | Normal, SemiCondensed, Condensed and ExtraCondensed in these weights: Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Extra-Bold and Black. Available in upright styles and italics.[19] | Latin, Greek and Cyrillic | |||
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs | 1.04 uh | Regular | 1076 | 1075 | Egyptian hieroglyphs |
Noto Sans Ethiopic | 1.08 | Regular Bold |
500 | 559 | Ethiopic |
Noto Sans Georgian | 1.06 | Regular Bold |
127 | 127 | Georgian |
Noto Sans Glagolitic | 1.04 uh | Regular | 99 | 98 | Glagolitic |
Noto Sans Gothic | 1.03 uh | Regular | 38 | 43 | Gothic |
Noto Sans Gujarati | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
155 | 741 (regular) 740 (bold) |
Gujarati |
Noto Sans Gurmukhi | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
151 | 301 | Gurmukhi |
Noto Sans Hanunoo | 1.04 uh | Regular | 28 | 43 | Hanunoo |
Noto Sans Hebrew | 1.04 | Regular Bold |
144 | 155 | Hebrew |
Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic | 1.03 uh | Regular | 36 | 35 | Imperial Aramaic |
Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi | 1.02 uh | Regular | 32 | 34 | Inscriptional Pahlavi |
Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian | 1.03 uh | Regular | 35 | 45 | Inscriptional Parthian |
Noto Sans Javanese | 1.06 uh | Regular | 100 | 186 | Javanese |
Noto Sans Kaithi | 1.05 uh | Regular | 101 | 314 | Kaithi |
Noto Sans Kannada | 1.04 | Regular Bold |
147 | 451 | Kannada |
Noto Sans Kayah Li | 1.02 uh | Regular | 53 | 54 | Kayah Li |
Noto Sans Kharoshthi | 1.03 uh | Regular | 70 | 133 | Kharoshthi |
Noto Sans Khmer | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
192 | 265 | Khmer |
Noto Sans Lao | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
120 | 166 | Lao |
Noto Sans Lepcha | 1.03 uh | Regular | 80 | 1471 | Lepcha |
Noto Sans Limbu | 1.05 uh | Regular | 73 | 73 | Limbu |
Noto Sans Linear B | 1.04 uh | Regular | 273 | 272 | Linear B |
Noto Sans Lisu | 1.03 uh | Regular | 55 | 54 | Lisu |
Noto Sans Lycian | 1.04 uh | Regular | 34 | 33 | Lycian |
Noto Sans Lydian | 1.03 uh | Regular | 32 | 31 | Lydian |
Noto Sans Malayalam | 1.04 | Regular Bold |
161 | 318 | Malayalam |
Noto Sans Mandaic | 1.02 uh | Regular | 35 | 128 | Mandaic |
Noto Sans Meetei Mayek | 1.04 uh | Regular | 84 | 91 | Meetei Mayek |
Noto Sans Mongolian | 1.04 uh | Regular | 200 | 1511 | Mongolian script |
Noto Sans Mono | Normal, SemiCondensed, Condensed and ExtraCondensed in these weights: Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Extra-Bold and Black. Only available in upright styles. No italics.[20] | Latin, Greek and Cyrillic | |||
Noto Sans Mono CJK JP | 1.004 | Regular Bold |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Japanese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans Mono CJK KR | 1.004 | Regular Bold |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Korean style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans Mono CJK SC | 1.004 | Regular Bold |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Simplified Chinese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans Mono CJK TC | 1.004 | Regular Bold |
44683 | 65535 | CJK (Traditional Chinese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Sans Myanmar | 1.10 | Regular Bold |
198 | 540 (regular) 541 (bold) |
Myanmar |
Noto Sans Nabataean | 2.000 | Regular | 43 | 45 | Nabataean |
Noto Sans New Tai Lue | 1.05 uh | Regular | 88 | 91 | New Tai Lue |
Noto Sans NKo | 1.02 uh | Regular | 76 | 174 | NKo |
Noto Sans Ogham | 1.04 uh | Regular | 34 | 33 | Ogham |
Noto Sans Ol Chiki | 1.03 uh | Regular | 53 | 52 | Ol Chiki |
Noto Sans Old Italic | 1.02 uh | Regular | 40 | 39 | Old Italic |
Noto Sans Old North Arabian | 2.000 | Regular | 36 | 37 | Old North Arabian |
Noto Sans Old Persian | 1.04 uh | Regular | 55 | 54 | Old Persian |
Noto Sans Old South Arabian | 1.03 uh | Regular | 37 | 36 | Old South Arabian |
Noto Sans Old Turkic | 1.02 uh | Regular | 78 | 77 | Old Turkic |
Noto Sans Oriya | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
151 | 671 | Oriya |
Noto Sans Osage | 1.900 | Regular | 80 | 84 | Osage |
Noto Sans Osmanya | 1.03 uh | Regular | 45 | 44 | Osmanya |
Noto Sans Phags Pa | 1.03 uh | Regular | 97 | 382 | Phags-pa |
Noto Sans Phoenician | 1.04 uh | Regular | 34 | 33 | Phoenician |
Noto Sans Rejang | 1.05 uh | Regular | 42 | 41 | Rejang |
Noto Sans Runic | 1.02 uh | Regular | 86 | 85 | Runic |
Noto Sans Samaritan | 1.03 uh | Regular | 67 | 67 | Samaritan |
Noto Sans Saurashtra | 1.04 uh | Regular | 89 | 93 | Saurashtra |
Noto Sans Shavian | 1.03 uh | Regular | 53 | 52 | Shavian |
Noto Sans Sinhala | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
140 | 614 | Sinhala |
Noto Sans Sundanese | 1.05 uh | Regular | 77 | 79 | Sundanese |
Noto Sans Syloti Nagri | 1.04 uh | Regular | 68 | 85 | Syloti Nagri |
Noto Sans Symbols | 1.09 uh | Regular | 5151 | 5356 | Symbols, including Braille |
Noto Sans Syriac Eastern | 1.04 uh | Regular | 151 | 319 | Syriac (Eastern style) |
Noto Sans Syriac Estrangela | 1.04 uh | Regular | 151 | 306 | Syriac (Estrangela style) |
Noto Sans Syriac Western | 1.04 uh | Regular | 151 | 313 | Syriac (Western style) |
Noto Sans Tagalog | 1.03 uh | Regular | 27 | 26 | Tagalog |
Noto Sans Tagbanwa | 1.04 uh | Regular | 25 | 24 | Tagbanwa |
Noto Sans Tai Le | 1.04 uh | Regular | 61 | 66 | Tai Le |
Noto Sans Tai Tham | 1.04 uh | Regular | 137 | 232 | Tai Tham |
Noto Sans Tai Viet | 1.03 uh | Regular | 82 | 81 | Tai Viet |
Noto Sans Tamil | 1.07 | Regular Bold |
139 | 215 (regular) 216 (bold) |
Tamil |
Noto Sans Telugu | 1.05 | Regular Bold |
154 | 762 | Telugu |
Noto Sans Thaana | 1.02 | Regular Bold |
91 | 95 | Thaana |
Noto Sans Thai | 1.04 | Regular Bold |
100 | 108 | Thai |
Noto Sans Tibetan | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
221 | 1296 | Tibetan |
Noto Sans Tifinagh | 1.05 uh | Regular | 72 | 101 | Tifinagh |
Noto Sans Ugaritic | 1.02 uh | Regular | 36 | 35 | Ugaritic |
Noto Sans Vai | 1.02 uh | Regular | 305 | 304 | Vai |
Noto Sans Yi | 1.02 uh | Regular | 1251 | 1251 | Yi |
Noto Serif | 2.000 | Normal, SemiCondensed, Condensed and ExtraCondensed in these weights: Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Extra-Bold and Black. Available in upright styles and italics.[21] | 2789 | 3243 | Latin, Greek, Cyrillic |
Noto Serif Ahom | 2.001 | Regular | 61 | 79 | Ahom |
Noto Serif Armenian | 2.03 | Regular Bold |
97 | 98 | Armenian |
Noto Serif Bengali | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
154 | 591 | Bengali |
Noto Serif CJK JP | 1.000 | ExtraLight Light Regular Medium SemiBold Bold Black |
43027 | 65535 | CJK (Japanese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Serif CJK KR | 1.000 | ExtraLight Light Regular Medium SemiBold Bold Black |
43027 | 65535 | CJK (Korean style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Serif CJK SC | 1.000 | ExtraLight Light Regular Medium SemiBold Bold Black |
43027 | 65535 | CJK (Simplified Chinese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Serif CJK TC | 1.000 | ExtraLight Light Regular Medium SemiBold Bold Black |
43027 | 65535 | CJK (Traditional Chinese style) Hangul Hiragana Katakana Bopomofo |
Noto Serif Devanagari | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
265 | 716 (regular) 715 (bold) |
Devanagari |
Noto Serif Display | Normal, SemiCondensed, Condensed and ExtraCondensed in these weights: Thin, Extra-Light, Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, Extra-Bold and Black. Available in upright styles and italics.[22] | Latin, Greek and Cyrillic | |||
Noto Serif Georgian | 1.06 | Regular Bold |
127 | 127 | Georgian |
Noto Serif Gujarati | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
155 | 476 | Gujarati |
Noto Serif Kannada | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
148 | 439 | Kannada |
Noto Serif Khmer | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
186 | 378 | Khmer |
Noto Serif Lao | 1.03 | Regular Bold |
120 | 166 | Lao |
Noto Serif Malayalam | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
163 | 240 | Malayalam |
Noto Serif Tamil | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
139 | 194 | Tamil |
Noto Serif Telugu | 1.01 | Regular Bold |
154 | 672 | Telugu |
Noto Serif Thai | 1.04 | Regular Bold |
100 | 108 | Thai |
Usage[]
Some projects provide a package for installing Noto fonts, e.g. Debian,[23] Arch Linux,[24] Gentoo Linux,[25] CTAN.[26] Since version 6.0, LibreOffice bundles Noto.[27]
Since 2019, Noto IKEA, a customised version of Noto Sans, is a corporate typeface of IKEA. It is used in pair with standard versions of Noto Sans and they replaced Verdana as a corporate typeface.[28]
References[]
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- ^ Mizra, Tanvi. "Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language?". NPR. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
- ^ "Google Noto Fonts". google.com. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
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- ^ Campbell, Ian Carlos (2021-05-06). "Google remembers Wear OS long enough to add a new keyboard". The Verge. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ Schoon, Ben (2018-06-06). "How to get Chrome's built-in emoji picker on Chrome OS, Windows, Mac". 9to5Google. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "Slack Overhauls Emoji Support With One Catch". Emojipedia. 2018-02-06. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ^ "Noto Sans font specimen". Google Fonts. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/faq/
- ^ Nathan Willis (1 October 2014). "Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font". LWN.net. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
- ^ "Guidelines for Using Noto". Google Noto Fonts. Retrieved 7 October 2016.
Currently, the Latin characters in the CJK fonts are from Adobe’s Source Sans Pro
- ^ Lunde, Ken. "Super, Mega & Ultra OTCs". blogs.adobe.com.
- ^ googlefonts/noto-fonts, Google Fonts, 2020-12-29, retrieved 2020-12-30
- ^ "Noto Color Emoji". Retrieved 8 October 2016.
- ^ "Frequently Asked Questions: What are Google's plans for Noto (so called "Phase 3")?". Retrieved 8 October 2010.
- ^ https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts/issues/2071#issuecomment-823370205
- ^ "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Sans". www.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Sans Display". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
- ^ "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Sans Mono". www.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Serif". www.google.com. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
- ^ "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Serif Display". www.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
- ^ "Debian -- Details of package fonts-noto in sid". packages.debian.org.
- ^ "Arch Linux - noto-fonts 20190926-2 (any)". www.archlinux.org.
- ^ "Gentoo Packages - media-fonts/noto". packages.gentoo.org.
- ^ "CTAN: Package noto". www.ctan.org.
- ^ "LibreOffice 6.0: Release Notes - The Document Foundation Wiki". wiki.documentfoundation.org.
- ^ Brewer, Jenny (21 August 2019). "Ikea swaps its brand typeface to Google and Monotype's Noto". It's Nice That. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
Ikea has swapped its brand typeface to Noto, a collaborative type family from Monotype and Google, after a decade of using Verdana across its visual identity. Before 2009, the company used Ikea Sans – an adaptation of Futura – for 50 years, but moved to Verdana because its own-brand font didn’t include Asian characters.
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