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 (April 2012), 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 (released in September 2022).
The Noto family is designed with the goal of achieving visual harmony (e.g., compatible heights and stroke thicknesses) 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 (typically small rectangles ▯). 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 (whose name is derived from no tofu) is to remove this kind of 'tofu' from the Web.
Noto is also derived from the Latin word , meaning , 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.
In 2026, Google updated its Noto Emoji library to a new 3D style.
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 (OTC) 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 about 200 kB 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 (released in September 2024), 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 (released October 2010) 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: + Unicode coverage of Google Noto fonts (April 2021) 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 August 2026, the following fonts exist: Font faceVersionStylesCharacters with distinct glyphGlyphsNotesNoto Sans2.015Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular), Italic Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)3094 (Variable) 3093 (Variable Italic)4669 (Variable) 4676 (Variable Italic)For Latin, Cyrillic and GreekNoto Sans Display2.003Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular), Italic Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)28403316 (Variable) 3327 (Variable Italic)Noto Sans Mono2.014Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)34903911Noto Serif2.013Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular), Italic Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)2965 (Variable) 2964 (Variable Italic)3818 (Variable) 3828 (Variable Italic)Noto Serif Display2.009Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular), Italic Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Black)28403256 (Variable) 3268 (Variable Italic)Noto Sans Adlam3.001Variable (Regular-Bold)346653Noto Sans Adlam Unjoined3.001Variable (Regular-Bold)346447Noto Serif Ahom2.007Regular332414Noto Sans Anatolian Hieroglyphs2.001Regular334924Noto Kufi Arabic2.107Variable (Thin-Black)5631066Noto Naskh Arabic2.016Variable (Regular-Bold)13571949Noto Naskh Arabic UI2.014Variable (Regular-Bold)10411597Noto Sans Arabic2.010Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)11611642Noto Sans Arabic UI2.004Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)11611563Noto Sans Armenian2.008Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)434441Noto Serif Armenian2.008Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)434440Noto Sans Avestan2.003Regular398409Noto Sans Balinese2.004Variable (Regular-Bold)460694Noto Serif Balinese2.005Regular458549Noto Sans Bamum2.002Variable (Regular-Bold)991996Noto Sans Bassa Vah2.002Variable (Regular-Bold)372384Noto Sans Batak2.003Regular395425Noto Sans Bengali2.003Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)4561030Noto Sans Bengali UI2.001Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)173695Noto Serif Bengali2.003Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)456925Noto Sans Bhaiksuki2.002Regular4341198Noto Sans Brahmi2.003Regular448592Noto Sans Buginese2.002Regular370376Noto Sans Buhid2.001Regular361379Noto Sans Canadian Aboriginal2.003Variable (Extra-light-Extra-bold)10621090Noto Sans Carian2.002Regular382387Noto Sans Caucasian Albanian2.005Regular392499Noto Sans Chakma2.003Regular429585Noto Sans Cham2.004Variable (Thin-Black)419450Noto Sans Cherokee2.001Variable (Thin-Black)511601Noto Sans Chorasmian1.003Regular362454Noto Sans Coptic2.004Regular520561Noto Sans Cuneiform2.001Regular15691574Noto Sans Cypriot2.002Regular436439Noto Sans Cypro Minoan1.503Regular433438Noto Sans Deseret2.001Regular415420Noto Sans Devanagari2.004Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)5521323Noto Sans Devanagari UI2.001Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular272922Noto Serif Devanagari2.004Variable (Thin-Black; Extra-condensed-Regular)5521153Noto Serif Dives Akuru1.001Regular75168Noto Serif Dogra1.007Regular401478Noto Sans Duployan3.001Regular, Bold491 (Both)10639 (Regular)