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Noto is a free font family comprising over 100 individual , which are together designed to cover all the scripts encoded in the Unicode standard. , Noto covers around 1,000 languages and 162 writing systems. , 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.
Google's aim for Noto (whose name is derived from no tofu) is to remove this kind of 'tofu' from the Web.
Noto is also derived from the Latin word noto, meaning "I write, I mark, I note", signifying Noto's goal of the ability to write in every language.
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.
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.Noto Color Emoji provides multi-color emoji symbols up to Unicode 16.0 in the OpenType CBDT format. It works in Android, Google Chrome, Linux, Microsoft Windows 10 from 1607 including Cygwin, and in apps that support the OpenType CBDT format.
The Noto fonts cover 162 out of the 168 scripts defined in Unicode version 16.0 (released in September 2024), 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 alchemy signs, , numbers and letters enclosed in circles for lists, playing cards, domino and Mahjong tiles, chess piece icons, Greek, Byzantine and regular musical notation 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 February 2025, the Noto fonts in the GitHub repository have this coverage of Unicode 16:
| + Unicode coverage of Google Noto fonts (April 2021) |
| 95.0% |
| 32.7% |
| 54.0% |
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 replaced Verdana as the corporate typeface.
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