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Posted by Xiangye Xiao and Jungshik Shin, Internationalization Engineering team Noto
Sans CJK released in 2014 . Like Noto Sans CJK, Noto Serif CJK supports
Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, all in one font.Song (宋体) in Mainland China,
Ming (明體) in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Minchō (明朝) in
Japan, and Myeongjo (명조) or Batang (바탕) in Korea. The names
and writing styles originated during the Song and Ming dynasties in China, when
China's wood-block printing technique became popular. Characters were carved
along the grain of the wood block. Horizontal strokes were easy to carve and
vertical strokes were difficult; this resulted in thinner horizontal strokes and
wider vertical ones. In addition, subtle triangular ornaments were added to the
end of horizontal strokes to simulate Chinese Kai (楷体) calligraphy. This style
continues today and has become a popular typeface style.
Design of '永' ('eternity') in Noto Serif and Sans CJK. This ideograph is famous for having the most important elements of calligraphic strokes. It is often used to evaluate calligraphy or typeface design.
It has comprehensive character coverage for the four languages. This
includes the full coverage of CJK Ideographs with variation support for four
regions, Kangxi radicals, Japanese Kana, Korean Hangul and other CJK symbols and
letters in the Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane of Unicode. It also provides a
limited coverage of CJK Ideographs in Plane 2 of Unicode, as necessary to
support standards from China and Japan.
Simplified Chinese
Supports GB 18030 and China’s latest standard Table of General Chinese Characters (通用规范汉字表) published in 2013.
Traditional Chinese
Supports BIG5, and Traditional Chinese glyphs are compliant to glyph standard of Taiwan Ministry of Education (教育部國字標準字體) .
Japanese
Supports all of the kanji in JIS X 0208, JIS X 0213, and JIS X 0212 to include all kanji in Adobe-Japan1-6.
Korean
Supports over 1.5 million archaic Hangul syllables and 11,172 modern syllables as well as all CJK ideographs in KS X 1001 and KS X 1002
Noto Serif CJK’s support of character and glyph set standards for the four languages
It respects diversity of regional writing conventions for the same
character. The example below shows the four glyphs of '述' (describe) in four
languages that have subtle differences.
From left to right are glyphs of '述' in S. Chinese, T. Chinese, Japanese and Korean. This character means "describe".
It is offered in seven weights: ExtraLight, Light, Regular, Medium,
SemiBold, Bold, and Black. Noto Serif CJK supports 43,027 encoded characters and
includes 65,535 glyphs (the maximum number of glyphs that can be included in a
single font). The seven weights, when put together, have almost a half-million
glyphs. The weights are compatible with Google's Material Design standard fonts, Roboto , Noto Sans and Noto Serif
(Latin-Greek-Cyrillic fonts in the Noto family).
Seven weights of Noto Serif CJK
It supports vertical text layout and is compliant with the Unicode vertical text layout
standard . The shape, orientation, and position of particular characters
(e.g., brackets and kana letters) are changed when the writing direction of
the text is vertical.
Iwata
Corporation , and Sandoll Communications .
SIL Open
Font License, Version 1.1 . We invite individual users to install and use
these fonts in their favorite authoring apps; developers to bundle these fonts
with your apps, and OEMs to embed them into their devices. The fonts are free
for everyone to use!
https://www.google.com/get/noto
https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk
http://adobe.ly/SourceHanSerif
https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/tree/release/
By Raph Levien, Engineer, Google Web Fonts our rapid user adoption . Today, we are announcing a new way to make web fonts smaller and faster, in collaboration with the Monotype Imaging Fonts.com Web Fonts team. Google Web Fonts now implements Monotype Imaging’s MicroType Express compression format, which yields an approximate 15% savings in file size over using gzip alone. This change will automatically speed up Google Web Fonts for Internet Explorer browsers (version 6 and up). We’re also actively working to offer improved compression with other modern browsers, including Google Chrome.previous speed optimizations as well, such as automatically stripping the hints (metadata used for improving rendering quality on Windows) when serving fonts to Mac, iOS, and Android clients. We expect that most future optimizations will also be automatic and transparent.MicroType Express available to the public at no cost; the license can be found at monotypeimaging.com/aboutus/mtx-license . We believe it’s friendly to both open source and proprietary implementations. sfntly library, adding to the existing WOFF compression. The sfntly library, developed by the Google Internationalization Engineering team, serves as the core conversion engine in Google Web Fonts for subsetting, hint stripping, and related functions of our dynamic serving path. We hope that all web font services, as well as people hosting their own web fonts, will use sfntly to optimize font serving across the web.Raph Levien is an expert on fonts and graphics technologies. Raph designed Inconsolata , one of the fonts available on the Web Font API. Raph enjoys photography and spending time with his family. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Stuart Gill, sfntly Architect sfntly font programming library as open source. Created by the Google Internationalization Engineering team, the sfntly Java and C++ library makes it easy for programmers to build high performance font manipulation applications and services. sfntly is really, really fast: Raph Levien, Google Web Fonts Engineer, says, "Using sfntly we can subset a large font in a millisecond. It’s faster than gzip'ing the result."Google Web Fonts team uses the Java version to dynamically subset fonts, and the Chrome/Chromium browser uses the C++ version to subset fonts for PDF printing.Stuart Gill is a Software Engineer in the Internationalization Engineering team at Google where he focuses on fonts and text. When not doing that he is playing the blues on his guitar, studying Japanese, or puttering about the house and garage. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann, Google Web Fonts Engineer Google Web Fonts . Such a feed would ensure that you can incorporate Google Web Fonts into applications and menus dynamically, without the need to hardcode any URLs. The benefits of this approach are clear. As Google Web Fonts continues to add fonts, these fonts can become immediately available within your applications and sites.Google Web Fonts Developer API , which provides a list of fonts offered via Google Web Fonts. Results can be sorted by alpha, date added, popularity, number of styles available, and trending (which is a measure of fonts growing rapidly in usage). Check out the documentation to get started.TypeDNA’s photoshop plugin as well as Faviconist , an app that makes generating favicons as simple as can be, and Google Web Fonts Families , a list of Google Web Fonts that have more than one style.Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann is a Software Engineer on the Google Web Fonts team. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
By Raph Levien, Engineer, Google Web Fonts announced a new feature on the Google Web Fonts Blog. Since we’re discussing this feature today at Google I/O , we’d like to share this news with Google Code Blog readers as well.<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Special+Elite &text=MyText' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>Raph Levien is an expert on fonts and graphics technologies. Raph designed Inconsolata , one of the fonts available on the Web Font API. Raph enjoys photography and spending time with his family. Posted by Scott Knaster , Editor
