Noto fonts
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| font | Noto |
| category | Sans-Serif & Serif |
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| Creation | 2012-2014 |
| publication | 2013 |
| License | Apache license |
Noto is a font family of open source fonts , all in once Unicode - standard should include writing systems contained. Its aim is to achieve a visual harmony of the font between the various languages and their writing systems . Like Open Sans , it is derived from the Droid Fonts . The fonts are developed on behalf of Google and are under the SIL Open Font License .
Support of fonts in Unicode
The fonts are currently being further developed and should gradually cover Unicode 6.2 in its entirety. In July 2014, 96 fonts were available for download. Currently includes Noto: European Languages, African Languages , languages of the Middle East , Indian languages , languages of Central Asia , East Asia , South Asia and Southeast Asia and Indigenous American languages . Various minority and historical languages are also supported.
Noto Sans CJK and Noto Serif CJK
Since July 2014, CJK fonts have been supported, namely abbreviations and traditional characters of the Chinese script as well as Japanese and Korean in grotesque style (Noto Sans CJK). Corresponding serif fonts were added in April 2017 (Noto Serif CJK). These fonts were created in a collaboration between Google, Monotype and Adobe . Due to the sheer size of the project and because of their local expertise designed three leading East Asian companies for font design much of the glyphs , namely Changzhou Sino Technology Type , Iwata Corporation and Sandoll Communication .
Origin of name
Text characters in an HTML document are displayed as small boxes by a computer operating system if none of the installed fonts support the characters. The developers of the font family call these characters "Tofu" (because of their similarity to a tofu cube). The name Noto is intended to convey Google's aim to no longer see such “tofu” (“ no more to fu”) on the World Wide Web .
Web links
- One font for all languages: Google wants to conquer the world with Noto. Yeebase media articleabout Noto Fonts from July 17, 2014
- Noto on Google
Individual evidence
- ↑ Tanvi Mizra: Can Google Build A Typeface To Support Every Written Language? NPR , August 3, 2014, accessed August 5, 2014 .
- ↑ https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Noto+Sans Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ↑ https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/commit/787e6b68b264428063342415d7c96afa3a32eec9 Retrieved October 19, 2015.
- ↑ http://googledevelopers.blogspot.com/2014/07/noto-cjk-font-that-is-complete.html Retrieved November 2, 2014.
- ↑ https://developers.googleblog.com/2017/04/noto-serif-cjk-is-here.html
- ↑ http://googledevelopers.blogspot.tw/2014/07/noto-cjk-font-that-is-complete.html
- ↑ Daniel Berger: A World magazine . In: c't . No. 5 , 2017, p. 140-1 .
- ↑ https://www.google.com/get/noto/
- ↑ https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-fonts/blob/master/FAQ.md. Retrieved February 9, 2017.