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Noto Serif CJK is here!

Monday, April 3, 2017

Posted by Xiangye Xiao and Jungshik Shin, Internationalization Engineering teamNoto Sans CJK released in 2014

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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	The best font for typesetting classic Korean documents in Hangul and Hanja such as Humninjeongeum manuscript, a UNESCO World Heritage. 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 Sandoll CommunicationsSIL Open Font License, Version 1.1 https://www.google.com/get/noto https://github.com/googlei18n/noto-cjkhttp://adobe.ly/SourceHanSerifhttps://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/tree/release/

Web Fonts, now more compressed

Monday, January 9, 2012

By Raph Levien, Engineer, Google Web Fontsour rapid user adoptionFonts.com Web Fontsprevious speed optimizationsMicroType Expressmonotypeimaging.com/aboutus/mtx-licensesfntlyRaph 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

Build great font tools and services with sfntly

Thursday, November 3, 2011

By Stuart Gill, sfntly ArchitectsfntlyGoogle Web FontsStuart 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

Integrate Google Web Font selection into your apps

Tuesday, September 27, 2011

By Jeremie Lenfant-Engelmann, Google Web Fonts EngineerGoogle Web FontsGoogle Web Fonts Developer APIdocumentationTypeDNA’s photoshop pluginFaviconistGoogle Web Fonts FamiliesJeremie Lenfant-Engelmann is a Software Engineer on the Google Web Fonts team.Posted by Scott Knaster, Editor

Streamline your web font requests: introducing “text=”

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

By Raph Levien, Engineer, Google Web Fontsannounced a new featureGoogle I/O<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

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Noto Serif CJK is here!

Web Fonts, now more compressed

Build great font tools and services with sfntly

Integrate Google Web Font selection into your apps

Streamline your web font requests: introducing “text=”

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