Noto fonts

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 6.0 (released 2010), 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, which is under half of the 137,439 characters defined in Unicode 11.0 (released in June 2018).

Noto
ClassificationSans-serif (humanist); serif (transitional); non-Latin
Commissioned byGoogle
Date created2012–2020
Date released2013
LicenseSIL Open Font License
Websitewww.google.com/get/noto/

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. In slang, those small rectangles have sometimes been called "tofu" because of their visual similarity to that product. Google's aim for Noto, as in "no more tofu", is to remove this kind of 'tofu' from the Web.[3][4]

Characteristics

Emoji

Color emoji from Noto Emoji Project.

Noto Emoji Project provides colour and black-and-white emoji fonts. The color version is used by Google's Gmail web interface, Google Hangouts, Chrome OS and Android.

Latin, Greek and Cyrillic

Noto Sans and Noto Serif, which contain Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, are derived from Droid fonts.[5] They are designed by Steve Matteson.[6]

CJK
Main articles: Source Han Sans and Source Han Serif
Source Han Sans, the Adobe/Google collaboration rebranded as Noto Sans CJK for East Asian scripts

Noto CJK fonts are rebranded versions of Adobe Source Han fonts, developed by Adobe and Google which contains Chinese characters, Hangul and Kana;[7] Latin-script letters and numerals are taken from the Source Pro fonts.[8]

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.[9]

Coverage

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.[10] The Noto Color Emoji font only works under Android and Linux, and cannot be installed under macOS or Microsoft Windows.[11]

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.[12]

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.

List of Noto fonts
Noto fonts and the scripts they support
Font faceVersionStylesCharactersGlyphsUnicode scripts
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.[13] 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.[14] 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.[15] Latin, Greek and Cyrliric
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.[16] 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.[17] 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,[18] Arch Linux,[19] Gentoo Linux,[20] CTAN.[21] Since version 6.0, LibreOffice bundles Noto.[22]

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.[23]

References
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  2. "Add NEWS for license change - googlei18n/noto-fonts". Retrieved 2016-04-03.
  3. Mizra, Tanvi. "Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language?". NPR. Retrieved 5 August 2014.
  4. "Google Noto Fonts". google.com. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  5. "Noto Sans font specimen". Google Fonts. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/faq/
  7. Nathan Willis (1 October 2014). "Google and Adobe's pan-CJK open font". LWN.net. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  8. "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
  9. Lunde, Ken. "Super, Mega & Ultra OTCs". blogs.adobe.com.
  10. googlefonts/noto-fonts, Google Fonts, 2020-12-29, retrieved 2020-12-30
  11. "Noto Color Emoji". Retrieved 8 October 2016.
  12. "Frequently Asked Questions: What are Google's plans for Noto (so called "Phase 3")?". Retrieved 8 October 2010.
  13. "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Sans". www.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  14. "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Sans Display". www.google.com. Retrieved 2020-08-04.
  15. "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Sans Mono". www.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  16. "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Serif". www.google.com. Retrieved August 4, 2020.
  17. "Google Noto Fonts - Noto Serif Display". www.google.com. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
  18. "Debian -- Details of package fonts-noto in sid". packages.debian.org.
  19. "Arch Linux - noto-fonts 20190926-2 (any)". www.archlinux.org.
  20. "Gentoo Packages - media-fonts/noto". packages.gentoo.org.
  21. "CTAN: Package noto". www.ctan.org.
  22. "LibreOffice 6.0: Release Notes - The Document Foundation Wiki". wiki.documentfoundation.org.
  23. 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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