New free font from Google covers over 800 languages
Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Five years, Google has been working closely with experts in the field of design from Monotype and Adobe. The result of the works has been presented today. Noto - font family, which covers more than 800 languages and 110,000 characters.
Name of Noto in the full version looks like No more tofu, which means "more without tofu." Let us explain what is tofu. The concept associated with the peculiarities of Chinese ikonografiki. Artemy Lebedev writes"The white rectangles that appear when a character in the font is, but there is no image, called tofu because of the striking similarity with the same tofu."
Thus, Noto eliminates the appearance of such characters here: ⎕, offering sophisticated, versatile and easy exchange of information internally without gaps.
Where Google Noto font download
Full font family with all styles of style and takes 472 MB. Of course, the most voluminous packages include Chinese and Korean characters. You can download all at once or choose the ones that you need. go to page Noto and enter in the search box desired language.
Noto font is free for SIL Open Font License free open license. The company says it will support Noto to date and constantly update the family as Unicode growth. Now Noto includes all Unicode characters.
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