Noto is a font family comprising over 100 individual computer 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 6.1 [April 2012], although fewer than 30,000 of the nearly 75,000 CJK unified ideographs in version 6.0 are covered. In total, Noto fonts cover over 77,000 characters, which is around half of the 149,186 characters defined in Unicode 15.0 [released in September 2022].
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. Until September 2015, the fonts were under the Apache License 2.0.
Etymology[edit]
When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes characters are displayed as substitute characters [typically small rectangles]. They represent the characters that cannot be displayed because no font with the necessary characters is installed on the computer, and have sometimes been called by the slang name tofu because of their visual similarity to the food of the same name.
Google's aim for Noto [whose name is derived from no tofu] is to remove this kind of 'tofu' from the Web.
Characteristics[edit]
Emoji[edit]
Color emoji from Noto Emoji Project.
The Noto Emoji Project provides color and black-and-white emoji fonts. The color version is used on the Gmail, Google Chat, Google Meet, Google Hangouts, and YouTube web apps, as well as the Android, Wear OS, and ChromeOS operating systems. It is also used on the Slack apps on Windows, Linux, and Android.
Latin, Greek and Cyrillic[edit]
Noto Sans and Noto Serif contain Latin, Greek and Cyrillic glyphs. Noto Sans is based on Droid Sans and Open Sans, while Noto Serif is based on Droid Serif. They are designed by Steve Matteson.
Noto Sans includes a lowercase U+006C l LATIN SMALL LETTER L without a tail, that has the potential for confusion with U+0049 I LATIN CAPITAL LETTER I or U+0031 1 DIGIT ONE in other fonts.
As recorded by the Unicode Consortium as being the preferred form for typesetting use, Noto Sans displays U+010F ď LATIN SMALL LETTER D WITH CARON as "d+apostrophe" rather than "d with a caron diacritic".
CJK[edit]
Noto CJK fonts are also known as Adobe Source Han fonts, developed together by Adobe and Google which contains Chinese characters, Hangul and Kana; Latin-script letters and numerals are taken from the Source Pro fonts.
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.
Coverage[edit]
This section needs to be updated. Please help update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. [March 2019]
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. The Noto Color Emoji font only works under Android and Linux, and cannot be installed under macOS or Microsoft Windows.
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.
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.
As of April 2021, the Noto fonts in the GitHub repository have this coverage of Unicode 13:
Unicode coverage of Google Noto fonts [April 2021] Noto Unicode % of Unicode Non-CJK 46794 49256 95.0% CJK 30867 94442 32.7% All Unicode 77661 143698 54.0%
List of Noto fonts[edit]
As of October 2023, the following fonts exist:
Font face Version Styles Characters
with distinct glyph
Glyphs Notes Noto Sans 2.013 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular],
Italic Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Black]
3094 [Variable]
3093 [Variable Italic]
4669 [Variable]
4676 [Variable Italic]
For Latin, Cyrillic and Greek Noto Sans 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular],
Italic Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Black]
2840 3316 [Variable]
3327 [Variable Italic]
Noto Sans Mono 2.014 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 3490 3911 Noto Serif 2.013 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular],
Italic Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Black]
2965 [Variable]
2964 [Variable Italic]
3818 [Variable]
3828 [Variable Italic]
Noto Serif Display 2.009 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular],
Italic Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Black]
2840 3256 [Variable]
3268 [Variable Italic]
Noto Sans Adlam 3.001 Variable [Regular-Bold] 346 653 Noto Sans Adlam Unjoined 3.001 Variable [Regular-Bold] 346 447 Noto Serif Ahom 2.007 Regular 332 414 Noto Sans Anatolian Hieroglyphs 2.001 Regular 334 924 Noto Kufi Arabic 2.107 Variable [Thin-Black] 563 1066 Noto Naskh Arabic 2.016 Variable [Regular-Bold] 1357 1949 Noto Naskh Arabic UI 2.014 Variable [Regular-Bold] 1041 1597 Noto Sans Arabic 2.010 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 1161 1642 Noto Sans Arabic UI 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 1161 1563 Noto Sans Armenian 2.008 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 434 441 Noto Serif Armenian 2.008 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 434 440 Noto Sans Avestan 2.003 Regular 398 409 Noto Sans Balinese 2.004 Variable [Regular-Bold] 460 694 Noto Serif Balinese 2.005 Regular 458 549 Noto Sans Bamum 2.002 Variable [Regular-Bold] 991 996 Noto Sans Bassa Vah 2.002 Variable [Regular-Bold] 372 384 Noto Sans Batak 2.003 Regular 395 425 Noto Sans Bengali 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 456 1030 Noto Sans Bengali UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 173 695 Noto Serif Bengali 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 456 925 Noto Sans Bhaiksuki 2.002 Regular 434 1198 Noto Sans Brahmi 2.003 Regular 448 592 Noto Sans Buginese 2.002 Regular 370 376 Noto Sans Buhid 2.001 Regular 361 379 Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal 2.003 Variable [Extra-light-Extra-bold] 1062 1090 Noto Sans Carian 2.002 Regular 382 387 Noto Sans Caucasian Albanian 2.005 Regular 392 499 Noto Sans Chakma 2.003 Regular 429 585 Noto Sans Cham 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black] 419 450 Noto Sans Cherokee 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black] 511 601 Noto Sans Chorasmian 1.003 Regular 362 454 Noto Sans Coptic 2.004 Regular 520 561 Noto Sans Cuneiform 2.001 Regular 1569 1574 Noto Sans Cypriot 2.002 Regular 436 439 Noto Sans Cypro Minoan 1.503 Regular 433 438 Noto Sans Deseret 2.001 Regular 415 420 Noto Sans Devanagari 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 552 1323 Noto Sans Devanagari UI 2.001 Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular 272 922 Noto Serif Devanagari 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 552 1153 Noto Serif Dives Akuru 1.001 Regular 75 168 Not yet available on Google Fonts. Noto Serif Dogra 1.007 Regular 401 478 Noto Sans Duployan 3.001 Regular, Bold 491 [Both] 10639 [Regular]
10736 [Bold]
Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs 2.001 Regular 1409 1414 No support for variation selectors or format controls. Noto Sans Elbasan 2.004 Regular 403 412 Noto Sans Elymaic 1.002 Regular 352 375 Noto Emoji 2.001 Variable [Light-Bold] 1468 + 21 private use 1879 Black and white version. Noto Color Emoji 2.034 Regular 1444 + 22 private use 20652 Noto Color Emoji Compat Test 1.000 Regular 1417 + 1 private use 3701 Noto Sans Ethiopic 2.102 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 860 925 Noto Serif Ethiopic 2.102 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 860 923 Noto Sans Georgian 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 512 554 Noto Serif Georgian 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 512 553 Noto Sans Glagolitic 2.003 Regular 477 482 Noto Sans Gothic 2.001 Regular 365 376 Noto Sans Grantha 2.003 Regular 452 813 Noto Serif Grantha 2.004 Regular 452 813 Noto Sans Gujarati 2.105 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 445 1162 Noto Sans Gujarati UI 2.001 Thin-Black 164 816 Noto Serif Gujarati 2.105 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 445 739 Noto Sans Gunjala Gondi 1.004 Variable [Regular-Bold] 399 585 Noto Sans Gurmukhi 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 436 615 Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI 2.001 Regular 154 344 Noto Serif Gurmukhi 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 436 627 Noto Sans Hanifi Rohingya 2.102 Variable [Regular-Bold] 392 510 Noto Sans Hanunoo 2.004 Regular 360 380 Noto Sans Hatran 2.001 Regular 362 367 Noto Rashi Hebrew 1.006 Variable [Thin-Black] 429 437 Noto Sans Hebrew 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 476 485 Noto Serif Hebrew 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 475 484 Noto Sans HK 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black] 20297 20940 Noto Serif HK 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black] 20299 20933 Noto Sans Imperial Aramaic 2.001 Regular 366 371 Noto Sans Indic Siyaq Numbers 2.002 Regular 424 430 Noto Sans Inscriptional Pahlavi 2.003 Regular 362 370 Noto Sans Inscriptional Parthian 2.003 Regular 363 379 Noto Sans Javanese 2.005 Variable [Regular-Bold] 428 738 Noto Sans JP 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black] 16088 17936 Noto Serif JP 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black] 16085 17923 Noto Sans Kaithi 2.005 Regular 427 656 Noto Sans Kannada 2.005 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 445 987 Noto Sans Kannada UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 164 655 Noto Serif Kannada 2.005 Variable [Thin-Black] 445 700 Noto Sans Kawi 1.000 Variable [Regular-Bold] 419 489 Noto Sans Kayah Li 2.002 Variable [Regular-Bold] 387 394 Noto Sans Kharoshthi 2.004 Regular 406 487 Noto Fangsong KSSRotated 1.000 Regular 497 1917 Noto Fangsong KSSVertical 1.000 Regular 497 1917 Noto Serif Khitan Small Script 1.000 Regular 813 11683 Noto Sans Khmer 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 487 681 Noto Sans Khmer UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 175 381 Noto Serif Khmer 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 487 677 Noto Sans Khojki 2.005 Regular 418 509 Noto Serif Khojki 2.005 Variable [Regular-Bold] 424 703 Noto Sans Khudawadi 2.003 Regular 419 445 Noto Sans KR 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black] 22451 24964 Noto Serif KR 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black] 22407 24910 Noto Sans Lao 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 421 466 Noto Sans Lao Looped 1.002 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 429 487 Noto Sans Lao UI 2.000 Regular 76 118 Unlooped. Noto Serif Lao 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 421 467 Noto Sans Lepcha 2.006 Regular 411 470 Noto Sans Limbu 2.004 Regular 409 416 Noto Sans Linear A 2.002 Regular 722 726 Noto Sans Linear B 2.002 Regular 603 608 Noto Sans Lisu 2.102 Variable [Regular-Bold] 390 395 Noto Sans Lycian 2.002 Regular 363 366 Noto Sans Lydian 2.002 Regular 363 368 Noto Sans Mahajani 2.003 Regular 399 404 Noto Serif Makasar 1.001 Regular 357 362 Not yet available on Google Fonts. Noto Sans Malayalam 2.104 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 467 697 Noto Sans Malayalam UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 187 364 Noto Serif Malayalam 2.104 Variable [Thin-Black] 467 687 Noto Sans Mandaic 2.002 Regular 368 467 Noto Sans Manichaean 2.005 Regular 391 488 Noto Sans Marchen 2.003 Regular 404 1083 Noto Sans Masaram Gondi 1.004 Regular 413 521 Noto Sans Math 2.539 Regular 2818 4610 Noto Sans Mayan Numerals 2.001 Regular 355 360 Noto Sans Medefaidrin 1.002 Variable [Regular-Bold] 426 431 Noto Sans Meetei Mayek 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black] 419 428 Noto Sans Mende Kikakui 2.003 Regular 549 563 Noto Sans Meroitic 2.002 Regular 458 466 Noto Sans Miao 2.003 Regular 485 700 Noto Sans Modi 2.004 Regular 426 542 Noto Sans Mongolian 2.003 Regular 545 1888 Noto Sans Mro 2.001 Regular 378 382 Noto Sans Multani 2.002 Regular 385 390 Noto Music 2.003 Regular 890 914 Noto Sans Myanmar 2.107 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 564 949 Noto Sans Myanmar UI 2.000 Thin, Extra-light, Light, Regular, Medium, Semi-bold, Bold, Extra-bold, Black 239 610 Noto Serif Myanmar 2.106 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 564 1079 Noto Sans Nabataean 2.001 Regular 375 380 Noto Sans Nag Mundari 1.000 Variable [Regular-Bold] 377 383 Noto Sans Nandinagari 1.002 Regular 422 1009 Noto Nastaliq Urdu 3.009 Variable [Regular-Bold] 668 1707 Noto Sans New Tai Lue 2.004 Variable [Regular-Bold] 436 442 Noto Sans Newa 2.007 Regular 434 945 Noto Sans N'ko 2.004 Regular 408 516 Noto Sans N'ko Todelist 2.001 Regular 79 184 Noto Sans N'ko Unjoined 2.004 Variable [Regular-Bold] 408 417 Noto Sans Nushu 1.003 Regular 730 734 Noto Traditional Nushu 2.003 Variable [Light-Bold] 767 774 Used for larger font sizes. Noto Serif Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong 1.000 Variable [Light-Bold] 75 76 Noto Serif NP Hmong 1.001 Variable [Regular-Bold] 407 411 Noto Sans Ogham 2.001 Regular 364 369 Noto Sans Ol Chiki 2.003 Variable [Regular-Bold] 384 390 Noto Sans Old Hungarian 2.005 Regular 445 695 Noto Sans Old Italic 2.003 Regular 374 400 Noto Sans Old North Arabian 2.001 Regular 367 371 Noto Sans Old Permic 2.001 Regular 382 390 Noto Sans Old Persian 2.001 Regular 385 390 Noto Sans Old Sogdian 2.002 Regular 376 396 Noto Sans Old South Arabian 2.001 Regular 367 372 Noto Sans Old Turkic 2.003 Regular 408 413 Noto Serif Old Uyghur 1.003 Regular 361 461 Noto Sans Oriya 2.005 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 434 877 Noto Sans Oriya UI 2.000 Thin, Regular, Bold, Black 150 513 Noto Serif Oriya 1.051 Variable [Regular-Bold] 433 1025 Noto Sans Osage 2.002 Regular 409 416 Noto Sans Osmanya 2.001 Regular 375 380 Noto Serif Ottoman Siyaq Numbers 1.006 Regular 392 396 Noto Sans Pahawh Hmong 2.001 Regular 465 470 Noto Sans Palmyrene 2.001 Regular 367 392 Noto Pau Cin Hau 2.002 Regular 392 396 Noto Sans Phags Pa 2.003 Regular 94 385 Noto Sans Phoenician 2.001 Regular 364 369 Noto Sans Psalter Pahlavi 2.002 Regular 368 433 Noto Sans Rejang 2.002 Regular 374 378 Noto Sans Runic 2.002 Regular 426 431 Noto Sans Samaritan 2.001 Regular 397 403 Noto Sans Saurashtra 2.002 Regular 419 429 Noto Sans SC 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black] 30393 31036 Noto Serif SC 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black] 30424 31058 Noto Sans Sharada 2.006 Regular 435 568 Noto Sans Shavian 2.001 Regular 383 388 Noto Sans Siddham 2.005 Regular 428 839 Noto Sans Sign Writing 2.005 Regular 1008 38218 Noto Sans Sinhala 2.006 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 453 979 Noto Sans Sinhala UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 170 645 Noto Serif Sinhala 2.007 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 451 976 Noto Sans Sogdian 2.002 Regular 380 680 Noto Sans Sora Sompeng 2.101 Variable [Regular-Bold] 371 376 Noto Sans Soyombo 2.001 Regular 419 658 Noto Sans Sundanese 2.005 Variable [Regular-Bold] 410 421 Noto Sans Syloti Nagri 2.004 Regular 397 419 Noto Sans 2.003 Variable [Thin-Black] 1107 1115 Noto Sans Symbols 2 2.005 Regular 2930 2951 Includes symbols that normally don't have different weights. Noto Sans Syriac 3.000 Variable [Thin-Black] 456 604 Three different varieties for Syriac with the first being of ʾEsṭrangēlā style [see Syriac for more information] Noto Sans Syriac Eastern 3.001 Variable [Thin-Black] 456 600 Noto Sans Syriac Western 3.000 Variable [Thin-Black] 150 296 Noto Sans Tagalog 2.002 Regular 362 367 Noto Sans Tagbanwa 2.001 Regular 359 364 Noto Sans Tai Le 2.002 Regular 390 406 Noto Sans Tai Tham 2.002 Variable [Regular-Bold] 466 1158 Noto Sans Tai Viet 2.004 Regular 409 413 Noto Sans Takri 2.005 Regular 415 428 Noto Sans Tamil 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 428 576 Noto Sans Tamil UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 147 244 Noto Sans Tamil Supplement 2.001 Regular 384 388 Additional Tamil characters. Noto Serif Tamil 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular],
Variable Italic [Thin-Black; Extra-codennsed-regular]
428 506 Noto Sans 1.506 Variable [Regular-Bold] 422 425 Noto Serif Tangut 2.169 Regular 7376 7381 Noto Sans TC 2.004 Variable [Thin-Black] 20305 20950 Noto Serif TC 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black] 20306 20940 Noto Sans Telugu 2.005 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 444 1291 Noto Sans Telugu UI 2.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 163 958 Noto Serif Telugu 2.005 Variable [Thin-Black] 444 1072 Noto Sans Test 1.000 Regular 2 3 Used for testing. Noto Serif Test 1.000 Variable [Regular-Bold] 2 3 Noto Sans Thaana 3.001 Variable [Thin-Black] 409 414 Noto Sans Thai 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 430 472 Noto Sans Thai Looped 1.001 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 448 515 Noto Looped Thai Older name of the font above. Noto Sans Thai UI 2.000 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 101 140 Noto Serif Thai 2.002 Variable [Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular] 430 471 Noto Serif Tibetan 2.103 Variable [Thin-Black] 552 2226 Noto Sans Tifinagh 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Adrar 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tiifinagh Agraw Imazighen 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Air 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh APT 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Azawagh 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Ghat 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Hawad 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Rhissa Ixa 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh SIL 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tifinagh Tawellement 2.006 Regular 76 275 Noto Sans Tirhuta 2.003 Regular 439 597 Noto Serif Toto 2.001 Variable [Regular-Bold] 367 373 Noto Sans Ugaritic 2.001 Regular 366 371 Noto Sans Vai 2.001 Regular 635 640 Noto Sans Vithkuqi 1.001 Variable [Regular-Bold] 403 408 Noto Serif Vithkuqi 1.005 Variable [Regular-Bold] 403 407 Noto Sans Wancho 2.001 Regular 395 415 Noto Sans Warang Citi 3.002 Regular 421 514 Noto Serif Yezidi 1.001 Variable [Regular-Bold] 387 391 Noto Sans Yi 2.002 Regular 1586 1591 Noto Sans Zanabazar Square 2.006 Regular 406 485
Usage[edit]
Some projects provide a package for installing Noto fonts, e.g. Debian, Arch Linux, Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux, CTAN. Since version 6.0, LibreOffice bundles Noto.
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.