go noto universal
versal v7.0
Noto Fonts go universal! Did you ever want "one font for all languages"? Download pan-Unicode, Noto Fonts merged according to the time of usage (current, ancient) or geographical region (Africa-MiddleEast, Europe-Americas, South Asia, SE Asia).
We offer two types of combined fonts:
See caveats too.
If you simply want to use the fonts, go to Releases page and download what you need. If you're unsure what to download, you probably need GoNotoKurrent-Regular.ttf1. If you want better support for emoji and symbols, try GoNotoCurrent-Regular.ttf. A bold variant of the font is also available (-Bold.ttf).
Development builds are available from GitHub Actions page. Click on any workflow with green checkmark ✅ (pipeline passed) and under "Artifacts", download "GoNotoTemporalFonts.zip" and "GoNotoRegionalFonts.zip" (login required).
NOTE: Even if there are no regular commits to this repo, the CI pipeline builds new Go Noto fonts everyday, pulling the latest Noto Fonts from upstream (using a scheduled cron). So, download the "Artifacts" from the "Actions" page to get the best features and bug fixes from Noto Fonts.
If you want to build the fonts yourself, create a virtual environment (venv) and run the script you want:
python3 -m venv venv_fonty
source venv_fonty/bin/activate
./temporal_fonts.sh # generates GoNotoAncient.ttf and GoNotoCurrent.ttf
./regional_fonts.sh # generates GoNoto[AfricaMiddleEast|EuropeAmericas|...].ttf
deactivate
Font generation can take 15 to 30 min, depending on your computer's capabilities.
Each script is designed to be reentrant, so you can run it multiple times without altering the working state of the repository or downloading stuff again and again.
Latest CI status:
fonttools is automatically fetched and used. The main
programs we use are pyftmerge, pyftsubset and ttx.
Temporal, i.e., time-based fonts are:
Each of these fonts includes Noto Sans (Regular), Noto Sans Symbols, Noto Sans Symbols 2, Noto Sans Math and Noto Music so that notations, symbols and emoji are not missed out.
Serif variants of these are also included but their Unicode coverage is not as good as Sans Serif (lack of upstream Noto Serif fonts).
The exact fonts which are combined are too long to list here but can be seen from the source code.
These fonts are merged/combined as per the regions defined in the Unicode Standard (pdf). Chapter numbers below refer to that spec.
| Go Noto font | Coverage |
|---|---|
| GoNotoEuropeAmericas.ttf | "Europe" - ch. 7, 8, "Americas" - ch 20, "Notational Systems" - ch 21 |
| GoNotoAfricaMiddleEast.ttf | "Middle East" - ch. 9, 10, 11 and "Africa" - ch. 19 |
| GoNotoSouthAsia.ttf | "South and Central Asia" - ch. 12 and 13 |
| GoNotoAsiaHistorical.ttf | "South and Central Asia" - ch. 14 and 15 |
| GoNotoSouthEastAsia.ttf | "Southeast Asia" - ch. 16 and "Indonesia and the Philippines" - ch 17 |
| GoNotoCJKCore.ttf | UnihanCore2020 subset of CJK (~20K ideographs). Use Noto CJK for full coverage |
| GoNotoEastAsia.ttf | "East Asia" - ch 18. everything other than Han (CJK) |
Each of the above fonts includes LGC (Latin-Greek-Cyrillic) as default, same coverage as Noto Sans Regular. Each one also includes Noto Sans Math, Noto Music, Noto Sans Symbols and Noto Sans Symbols
2 to give you bonus coverage of beautiful notations, symbols and emoji :)
Following are included: Bengali, Chakma, Devanagari (Hindi, Marathi, Nepali, etc), Gondi, Gujarati, Gunjala Gondi, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Lepcha, Limbu, Malayalam, Masaram Gondi, Meetei Mayek, Mro, Nag Mundari, Newa, Ol Chiki, Oriya, Punjabi (Gurmukhi), Saurashtra, Sinhala, Tamil, Tangsa, Telugu, Thaana, Tibetan, Toto, Wancho, Warang Citi.
Urdu (Noto Naskh Arabic), though not written in an Indic script and not part of "South Asia" chapters in the Unicode spec, is included for practical reasons. Noto Nastaliq Urdu would be more appropriate but it is too big to fit in the merged font.
Following are included: Ahom, Bhaiksuki, Brahmi, Dives Akuru, Dogra, Grantha, Indic Siyaq Numbers, Kaithi, Kharoshthi, Khojki, Khudawadi, Mahajani, Makasar, Modi, Multani, Nag Mundari, Nandinagari, Old Sogdian, Old Turkic, Old Uyghur, Ottoman Siyaq Numbers, Phags-Pa, Sharada, Siddham, Sogdian, Sora Sompeng, Soyombo, Syloti Nagri, Takri, Tirhuta, Zanabazar Square.
Following are included: Balinese, Batak, Buginese, Buhid, Cham, Hanifi Rohingya, Hanunóo, Javanese, Kayah Li, Kawi, Khmer, Lao, Makasar, Myanmar, New Tai Lue, Nyiakeng Puache Hmong, Pahawh Hmong, Pau Cin Hau, Rejang, Sundanese, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Thai.
Everything covered by NotoSans (Latin-Greek-Cyrillic etc.) plus Anatolian Hieroglyphics, Armenian, Braille, Canadian Aboriginal, Carian, Caucasian Albanian, Cherokee, Coptic, Cypriot, Deseret, Duployan, Elbasan, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Linear A, Linear B, Lycian, Lydian, Mayan Numerals, Nyiakeng Puachue Hmong, Ogham, Old Hungarian, Old Italic, Old Permic, Osage, Runic, Shavian, Sutton Sign Writing, Vithkuqi.
The following are included: Adlam, Anatolian Hieroglyphics, Arabic (Naskh-style), Avestan, Bamum, Bassa Vah, Chorasmian, Cuneiform, Egyptian, Elymaic, Ethiopic, Hatran, Hebrew, Imperial Aramaic, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Inscriptional Parthian, Mandaic, Manichaean, Medefaidrin, Mende Kikakui, Meroitic, Nabataean, N'Ko, Old North Arabian, Old Persian, Old South Arabian, Osmanya, Palmyrene, Phoenician, Psalter Pahlavi, Samaritan, Sumero-Akkadian, Syriac, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vai, Yezidi.
Bopomofo, Hangul, Hiragana and Katakana, Khitan Small Script, Lisu, Marchen, Miao, Mongolian, Nüshu, Tangut, Tibetan, Yi, etc. excluding Han/CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). Vertical text writing is not supported.
Unihan IICore is a minimal, region-agnostic subset of Han/CJK specified in 2005 for memory-constrained systems. It standardizes about 9800 codepoints, covering basic use cases of Chinese (Traditional, Simplified), Japanese and Korean. Recently Unihan Core 2020 superseded and expanded the minimal subset to about 20000 codepoints. Go Noto CJK Core includes a superset of codepoints from both of these subsets.
The GoNotoCJKCore.ttf includes "locl" layout feature, so it can display Japanese or Korean glyphs just by switching the language in your editor/word processor/web browser etc. Hiragana, Katakana and Hangul are included.
Why use this instead of the upstream Noto CJK Fonts? Because our font also contains Noto Sans Math, Noto Music, Noto Sans Symbols, Noto Sans Symbols 2, plus everything in Noto Sans (Regular) -- so you can have emojis, mathematical notation, musical symbols and Latin-Greek-Cyrillic in a single font. But all the upstream Noto CJK Fonts have maxed out 65K glyphs, so they don't have space anymore for glyphs additions.
The only limitation is that Go Noto CJK Core does not support vertical text writing.
Font statistics are collected in tsv format (tab separated value) by the CI pipeline in every run and can be downloaded in build Artifacts.
Statistics below correspond to release v5.1.
| Go Noto Font | Unicode blocks | Characters | Glyphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| GoNotoCurrent.ttf | 197 | 32804 | 61207 |
| GoNotoAncient.ttf | 178 | 24556 | 32971 |
| GoNotoEuropeAmericas.ttf | 120 | 13391 | 53393 |
| GoNotoAfricaMiddleEast.ttf | 128 | 16055 | 20429 |
| GoNotoSouthAsia.ttf | 119 | 11632 | 21184 |
| GoNotoAsiaHistorical.ttf | 124 | 11100 | 18457 |
| GoNotoSouthEastAsia.ttf | 112 | 10813 | 15044 |
| GoNotoEastAsia.ttf | 109 | 18710 | 24525 |
| GoNotoCJKCore.ttf | 107 | 41132 | 61658 |
NotoSansSignWriting alone contributes about 37900 glyphs to GoNotoEuropeAmericas.ttf.
Note that each of the above include statistics of:
| Upstream font | Unicode blocks | Characters | Glyphs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Noto Sans | 37 | 2840 | 3748 |
| Noto Sans Math | 22 | 2472 | 2655 |
| Noto Music | 7 | 561 | 581 |
| Noto Sans Symbols | 15 | 840 | 1218 |
| Noto Sans Symbols 2 | 37 | 2655 | 2674 |
| Total | 111 | 9368 | 10876 |
vmtx/vhea.In the spirit of loka-saṃgraha, the scripts distributed in this git repository (the "Software") are dedicated to the public domain as per "The Unlicense". See UNLICENSE.txt.
However, the fonts generated by using the Software are licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1, as required by the upstream Noto Fonts Project.
FontTools package comes with nice utilities ttx (ttf to xml and back), pyftsubset (create font
with subset of given font) and pyftmerge (merging fonts, the workhorse of this repo).
libharfbuzz-bin offers CLI utilities hb-view and hb-shape which are useful for visualising
rendered characters.
otfinfo gives useful info about glyphs, codepoints, scripts and more.
The "K" in "Kurrent" stands for full Korean support, but lacks emoji and symbols. Conversely, "Go Noto Current" has poor Korean support but includes emojis and symbols. ↩
