Noto Sans

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Weights and styles

• Thin 100Noto Sans Thin Thin Italic
• ExtraLight 200Noto Sans ExtraLight ExtraLight Italic
• Light 300Noto Sans Light Light Italic
• Regular 400Noto Sans Regular Italic
• Medium 500Noto Sans Medium Medium Italic
• SemiBold 600Noto Sans SemiBold SemiBold Italic
• Bold 700Noto Sans Bold Bold Italic
• ExtraBold 800Noto Sans ExtraBold ExtraBold Italic
• Black 900Noto Sans Black Black Italic

Noto Sans is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file per style, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Noto Sans

Noto Sans is a sans serif family with even strokes, open letter shapes and a tall lowercase, as the specimen shows. It is the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek member of Noto, a collection that aims to cover the world's writing systems, and the official notes present it as the companion for the script-specific Noto Sans fonts. That role explains the size of the character set: 4,503 glyphs, with subsets for Latin Extended, Cyrillic Extended, Greek Extended, Vietnamese and Devanagari. The family is variable on two axes, weight from 100 to 900 and width from 62.5 to 100. Roman and italic each have nine named weights, 18 styles in total. Google is credited as designer; the name table lists the Monotype Design Team. Noto Sans was added to Google Fonts in 2013.

Where Noto Sans works

Products shipped in many languages

One family sets Latin, Cyrillic and Greek text, and sister Noto Sans fonts continue the design into other scripts.

App and web interfaces

Open shapes and a tall lowercase keep labels and menus readable, with Medium and SemiBold for controls.

Documents and reports

Regular with italics and nine weights covers body text, headings and footnotes from one family.

Dense tables and sidebars

The width axis narrows the letters to 62.5 where columns are tight.

Fallback for missing characters

A large glyph set reduces the empty boxes that appear when a font lacks a character.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Devanagari, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, devanagari, greek, greek-ext, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Noto Sans

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Noto Sans on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Noto Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NotoSans-Italic-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: italic;
  font-display: swap;
}
@font-face {
  font-family: "Noto Sans";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/NotoSans-VariableFont_wdth%2Cwght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Noto Sans", sans-serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Noto Sans with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Noto+Sans:ital,wght@0,100..900;1,100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

Sister fonts cover other scripts

Scripts beyond Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Devanagari are served by separate families in the same collection.

Width only narrows

The width axis runs from 62.5 to 100; there is no expanded setting.

Large files

The variable files carry 4,503 glyphs, so subsetting helps on the web.

FAQs

Collections with Noto Sans

• Fonts for subtitles and video captions

  Plain, sturdy sans-serif families for subtitles and captions, chosen for clear letters at small sizes and, in most cases, wide language coverage.

• Humanist sans-serif fonts for readable text

  Sans-serif families with open, pen-influenced letterforms that stay comfortable in paragraphs, documents and interface text.

• Font families with nine weights and italics

  Complete families running from Thin to Black with an italic for every weight: eighteen styles for a full typographic system.

• Type systems with matching sans, serif and mono families

  Families designed to be used together: a sans, a serif or slab and often a monospace that share proportions, weights and character.

• Fonts that support Devanagari

  Open-license families for Hindi, Marathi, Nepali and other Devanagari-script languages, each with Latin letters in the same files.

• Fonts that cover several writing systems

  Families that set Latin together with three or more other scripts in one design, for multilingual sites, apps and documents.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All sans serif fonts