Comprehensive Language Support
Google Noto Sans aims to cover every written language and script in the world, making it an excellent choice for global projects.
Consistency Across Scripts
Noto Sans provides a consistent look and feel across different scripts, ensuring uniformity in multi-language documents.
Open Source and Free
Being open source, Noto Sans is free to use, modify, and distribute, which is ideal for both personal and commercial projects.
Regular Updates
Google actively maintains Noto Sans, providing regular updates and bug fixes to improve its quality and coverage.
Versatile Style Options
Noto Sans comes in various weights and styles, allowing for flexible use in different design scenarios.
* in computing, the rectangles that get shown when a font doesn't support a Unicode character (thus the Noto(fu) font: https://fonts.google.com/noto) I understand why the name change was needed, and "tofu" probably was the most straightforward alternative, but still... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago
Noto Sans: This is Google's Android font family, it supports just about every language and emoji, and looks pretty slick in every language I can read. Source: over 1 year ago
For the emojis I'm using Noto font available on Google Font - https://fonts.google.com/noto. Source: almost 2 years ago
It seemed simple at first, but I quickly ran into problems. Step 1 was rather easy, but I'm stuck at step 2. There is no font that can render all characters. However, there are font families that can display all of them. The most popular one seems to be Noto, but so far I still don't know how to use it, that is, I don't know how to download all necessary fonts. Another problem is that it seems some characters are... Source: almost 2 years ago
I suggest to take a look at the Noto fonts from Google. Source: almost 2 years ago
You can access the mappings by going to Font -> Composite Font Mappings... (at the bottom of the menu). The Noto fonts are freely available from Google here: https://fonts.google.com/noto and they have very wide Unicode coverage. Source: almost 2 years ago
What I'm personally using for this is Noto (short for "no tofu," with "tofu" referring to the missing character glyphs), accessible with noto-fonts and noto-fonts-extra (there's also noto-fonts-emoji which might be useful), though each pretty much needs to be added as a fallback separately. For CJK / Han characters, Babelstone (at babelstone-han) has good coverage, though the version in Nixpkgs isn't quite up to... Source: about 2 years ago
In a font that supports multiple writing systems, whether Latin, Cyrillic, or even Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters, the glyphs from different systems should be designed to harmonize. Having different visual weights is incorrect. See Google's Noto font family, for example. Source: about 2 years ago
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