Noto fonts

Noto is a free font family comprising over 100 individual computer fonts, 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, 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.
The Noto family is designed with the goal of achieving visual harmony 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

When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes characters are displayed as substitute characters. 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 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.

Characteristics

Emoji

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 Voice, 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

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.

CJK

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 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

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, as well as various symbols and emoji which do not belong to a specific script.
As of October 2016, all scripts encoded up to Unicode version 6.0 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:

	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

As of February 2025, the following fonts exist:

Font face	Version	Styles	Characters with distinct glyph	Glyphs	Notes
Noto Sans	2.015	Variable, Italic Variable	3094 3093	4669 4676	For Latin, Cyrillic and Greek
Noto Sans Display	2.003	Variable, Italic Variable	2840	3316 3327	For Latin, Cyrillic and Greek
Noto Sans Mono	2.014	Variable	3490	3911	For Latin, Cyrillic and Greek
Noto Serif	2.013	Variable, Italic Variable	2965 2964	3818 3828	For Latin, Cyrillic and Greek
Noto Serif Display	2.009	Variable, Italic Variable	2840	3256 3268	For Latin, Cyrillic and Greek
Noto Sans Adlam	3.001	Variable	346	653
Noto Sans Adlam Unjoined	3.001	Variable	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	563	1066
Noto Naskh Arabic	2.016	Variable	1357	1949
Noto Naskh Arabic UI	2.014	Variable	1041	1597
Noto Sans Arabic	2.010	Variable	1161	1642
Noto Sans Arabic UI	2.004	Variable	1161	1563
Noto Sans Armenian	2.008	Variable	434	441
Noto Serif Armenian	2.008	Variable	434	440
Noto Sans Avestan	2.003	Regular	398	409
Noto Sans Balinese	2.004	Variable	460	694
Noto Serif Balinese	2.005	Regular	458	549
Noto Sans Bamum	2.002	Variable	991	996
Noto Sans Bassa Vah	2.002	Variable	372	384
Noto Sans Batak	2.003	Regular	395	425
Noto Sans Bengali	2.003	Variable	456	1030
Noto Sans Bengali UI	2.001	Variable	173	695
Noto Serif Bengali	2.003	Variable	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	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	419	450
Noto Sans Cherokee	2.001	Variable	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	552	1323
Noto Sans Devanagari UI	2.001	Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular	272	922
Noto Serif Devanagari	2.004	Variable	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	10639 10736
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	1468 + 21 private use	1879	Black and white version.
Noto Color Emoji	2.034	Regular	1444 + 22 private use	20652	Prioritizes Apple/Android interchange over strict Unicode reproduction.
Noto Color Emoji Compat Test	1.000	Regular	1417 + 1 private use	3701
Noto Sans Ethiopic	2.102	Variable	860	925
Noto Serif Ethiopic	2.102	Variable	860	923
Noto Sans Georgian	2.003	Variable	512	554
Noto Serif Georgian	2.003	Variable	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	445	1162
Noto Sans Gujarati UI	2.001	Thin-Black	164	816
Noto Serif Gujarati	2.105	Variable	445	739
Noto Sans Gunjala Gondi	1.004	Variable	399	585
Noto Sans Gurmukhi	2.004	Variable	436	615
Noto Sans Gurmukhi UI	2.001	Regular	154	344
Noto Serif Gurmukhi	2.004	Variable	436	627
Noto Sans Hanifi Rohingya	2.102	Variable	392	510
Noto Sans Hanunoo	2.004	Regular	360	380
Noto Sans Hatran	2.001	Regular	362	367
Noto Rashi Hebrew	1.006	Variable	429	437
Noto Sans Hebrew	2.003	Variable	476	485
Noto Serif Hebrew	2.003	Variable	475	484
Noto Serif Hentaigana	1.000	Variable	448	291
Noto Sans HK	2.004	Variable	20297	20940
Noto Serif HK	2.002	Variable	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	428	738
Noto Sans JP	2.004	Variable	16088	17936
Noto Serif JP	2.002	Variable	16085	17923
Noto Sans Kaithi	2.005	Regular	427	656
Noto Sans Kannada	2.005	Variable	445	987
Noto Sans Kannada UI	2.001	Variable	164	655
Noto Serif Kannada	2.005	Variable	445	700
Noto Sans Kawi	1.000	Variable	419	489
Noto Sans Kayah Li	2.002	Variable	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	487	681
Noto Sans Khmer UI	2.001	Variable	175	381
Noto Serif Khmer	2.004	Variable	487	677
Noto Sans Khojki	2.005	Regular	418	509
Noto Serif Khojki	2.005	Variable	424	703
Noto Sans Khudawadi	2.003	Regular	419	445
Noto Sans KR	2.004	Variable	22451	24964
Noto Serif KR	2.002	Variable	22407	24910
Noto Sans Lao	2.003	Variable	421	466
Noto Sans Lao Looped	1.002	Variable	429	487
Noto Sans Lao UI	2.000	Regular	76	118	Unlooped.
Noto Serif Lao	2.003	Variable	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	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
Noto Sans Malayalam	2.104	Variable	467	697
Noto Sans Malayalam UI	2.001	Variable	187	364
Noto Serif Malayalam	2.104	Variable	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	426	431
Noto Sans Meetei Mayek	2.002	Variable	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	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	564	1079
Noto Sans Nabataean	2.001	Regular	375	380
Noto Sans Nag Mundari	1.000	Variable	377	383
Noto Sans Nandinagari	1.002	Regular	422	1009
Noto Nastaliq Urdu	3.009	Variable	668	1707
Noto Sans New Tai Lue	2.004	Variable	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	408	417
Noto Sans Nushu	1.003	Regular	730	734
Noto Traditional Nushu	2.003	Variable	767	774	Used for larger font sizes.
Noto Serif Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong	1.000	Variable	75	76
Noto Serif NP Hmong	1.001	Variable	407	411
Noto Sans Ogham	2.001	Regular	364	369
Noto Sans Ol Chiki	2.003	Variable	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	434	877
Noto Sans Oriya UI	2.000	Thin, Regular, Bold, Black	150	513
Noto Serif Oriya	1.051	Variable	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	30393	31036
Noto Serif SC	2.002	Variable	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	453	979
Noto Sans Sinhala UI	2.001	Variable	170	645
Noto Serif Sinhala	2.007	Variable	451	976
Noto Sans Sogdian	2.002	Regular	380	680
Noto Sans Sora Sompeng	2.101	Variable	371	376
Noto Sans Soyombo	2.001	Regular	419	658
Noto Sans Sundanese	2.005	Variable	410	421
Noto Sans Sunuwar	1.000	Regular	371	374
Noto Sans Syloti Nagri	2.004	Regular	397	419
Noto Sans Symbols	2.003	Variable	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	456	604	Three different varieties for Syriac with the first being of ʾEsṭrangēlā style
Noto Sans Syriac Eastern	3.001	Variable	456	600	Three different varieties for Syriac with the first being of ʾEsṭrangēlā style
Noto Sans Syriac Western	3.000	Variable	150	296	Three different varieties for Syriac with the first being of ʾEsṭrangēlā style
Noto Serif Syriac	1.000		506	615	Includes Syriac Letters for Suriyani Malayalam
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	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	428	576
Noto Sans Tamil UI	2.001	Variable	147	244
Noto Sans Tamil Supplement	2.001	Regular	384	388	Additional Tamil characters.
Noto Serif Tamil	2.004	Variable, Variable Italic	428	506
Noto Sans Tangsa	1.506	Variable	422	425
Noto Sans Tangut	1.000	Regular	7376	7381	-
Noto Serif Tangut	2.169	Regular	7376	7381
Noto Sans TC	2.004	Variable	20305	20950
Noto Serif TC	2.002	Variable	20306	20940
Noto Sans Telugu	2.005	Variable	444	1291
Noto Sans Telugu UI	2.001	Variable	163	958
Noto Serif Telugu	2.005	Variable	444	1072
Noto Sans Test	1.000	Regular	2	3	Used for testing.
Noto Serif Test	1.000	Variable	2	3	Used for testing.
Noto Sans Thaana	3.001	Variable	409	414
Noto Sans Thai	2.002	Variable	430	472
Noto Sans Thai Looped	1.001	Variable	448	515
Noto Looped Thai	1.001	Variable	448	515	Older name of the font above.
Noto Sans Thai UI	2.000	Variable	101	140
Noto Serif Thai	2.002	Variable	430	471
Noto Serif Tibetan	2.103	Variable	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 Todhri	1.000	Regular	35	52
Noto Serif Toto	2.001	Variable	367	373
Noto Sans Ugaritic	2.001	Regular	366	371
Noto Sans Vai	2.001	Regular	635	640
Noto Sans Vithkuqi	1.001	Variable	403	408
Noto Serif Vithkuqi	1.005	Variable	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	387	391
Noto Sans Yi	2.002	Regular	1586	1591
Noto Sans Zanabazar Square	2.006	Regular	406	485
Noto Znamenny Musical Notation	1.003	Regular	515	527