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Noto
Commissioned byGoogle
Date created2012-2014
Date released2013
LicenseSIL Open Font License
WebsiteGoogle 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

References

  1. ^ "Noto Font". Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  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.
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