Google makes a font?

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>Google and Monotype's new font, Noto, brings some written languages to the web for the first time

http://www.zdnet.com/article/googles-open-source-noto-free-font-covers-800-languages-including-dead-ones/

>Google has released a new open-source font called Noto, which supports 800 languages and covers 110 writing systems.

>Short for 'No more Tofu', the name of the new typeface is a nod to what people call the default white boxes that appear when a computer doesn't understand a character on a website.

>"One of the goals of the project was to support every language and every character, so one of the things we wanted to do was make sure there's no tofu for all our users," said Bob Jung, an director of internationalization at Google.

>The huge project was carried out by Google and type firm Monotype over five years, resulting in a single font in eight weights that covers 800 languages supported by the Unicode standard.

>Noto consists of 110,000 characters and 110 writing systems. To ensure consistency with Unicode, Google intends to update Noto as new characters are introduced to Unicode, such as the recent emoji updates. It's also available under an Open Font License, allowing developers to add to the design of scripts, and use them freely.

>According to Jung, the project started out as a necessity to eradicate tofu from ChromeOS and Android products and now Noto is used to display text, emoji and music symbols on these devices.
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link to font:
https://developers.googleblog.com/2016/10/an-open-source-font-system-for-everyone.html