Noto fonts

Noto

Commissioned by	Google
Date created	2012-2014
Date released	2013
License	SIL Open Font License
Website	Google Noto Fonts

Noto is a font family designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. It 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 there will be characters in the text that can not be displayed, because no font that supports them is available to the computer. When this occurs, small boxes are shown to represent the characters. In slang those small boxes have sometimes been called "tofu". Noto as in no tofu, aims to remove tofu from the Web. This is how the Noto font families got their name.^[3]

Unicode coverage

The font is still under development with plans of supporting all of Unicode 6.2 gradually. As of March 2015, 98 fonts were available for download, separated into script areas.

Noto's matching symbols font, Noto Symbols, includes 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, mathematical sans-serif font modelled on Helvetica, Fraktur and script fonts, hexagram and Aegean numbers.

Characteristics

Noto Sans and Noto Serif, which contain Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs, are derived from Droid fonts.
Noto Sans CJK is a rebadged version of Source Han Sans, a typeface developed by Adobe and Google which contains Chinese characters, Hangul and Kana; Latin-script letters and numerals are taken from the Source Sans Pro font.

References

↑ "Noto Font". Retrieved November 24, 2015.
↑ "Add NEWS for license change - googlei18n/noto-fonts". Retrieved 2016-04-03.
↑ Mizra, Tanvi. "Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language?". NPR. Retrieved 5 August 2014.

External Links

noto-fonts, noto-cjk, noto-emoji, noto-source - GitHub
Noto fonts download

Free and open-source typography

Operating system, corporate & professional	Bitstream Charter, Bitstream Vera Cantarell Computer Modern, Concrete Roman DejaVu Droid, Noto, Open Sans Fira Sans Ghostscript fonts, Garamond No. 8 GNU FreeFont, GNU Unifont Liberation, Croscore Lohit Nimbus Mono, Sans, Roman OCR-A, OCR-B Overpass PT Fonts Roboto Source Code, Source Han Sans, Source Sans, Source Serif STIX fonts Tiresias Ubuntu, Ubuntu Titling Utopia

Other typefaces	Allerta Asana-Math Cardo Caslon Roman Chandas Charis SIL Coelacanth Comic Neue Cormorant Courier Prime Doulos SIL EB Garamond ET Book Gentium Inconsolata IM Fell Jomolhari Junicode Kochi Lato Linux Libertine M+ News Cycle Open Baskerville OpenDyslexic Railway Sans Squarish Sans CT Theano Didot WenQuanYi XITS

Software	FontForge Fontmatrix FreeType Ghostscript Metafont MetaPost METATYPE1 Pango TeX

Licenses	Aladdin Free Public License Apache License BSD License Creative Commons licenses GNU General Public License + GPL font exception GNU Lesser General Public License LaTeX Project Public License MIT License SIL Open Font License Ubuntu Font Licence

Groups and people	Donald Knuth Font Awesome Hershey fonts Greek Font Society League of Movable Type Open Font Library Google Fonts SIL International

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