{"id":182318,"date":"2016-10-10T09:33:26","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=182318"},"modified":"2016-10-10T09:35:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-10T07:35:11","slug":"googles-open-source-font-supports-every-unicode-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/182318-googles-open-source-font-supports-every-unicode-character.html","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s open-source font supports every Unicode character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/developers.googleblog.com\/2016\/10\/an-open-source-font-system-for-everyone.html\" target=\"_blank\">recently announced<\/a><\/strong> the launch of the Noto font family, which\u00a0provides a consistent type face for every symbol in the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/unicode.org\" target=\"_blank\">Unicode<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0standard.<\/p>\n<p>Short for &#8220;No\u00a0tofu&#8221;, Noto&#8217;s aim is\u00a0to eliminate\u00a0the blank boxes, called tofu, that appear when a computer or website isn&#8217;t able to display text.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Tofu can create confusion, a breakdown in communication, and a poor user experience,&#8221; said Google.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Google\u2019s open-source Noto font family provides a beautiful and consistent digital type for every symbol in the\u00a0Unicode\u00a0standard, covering more than 800 languages and 110,000 characters.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Google has made the Noto font family, design source files, and the font building pipeline available for free.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on fonts<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/154628-operator-a-new-font-for-programmers.html\"><strong>Operator: a new font for programmers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has announced the launch of the Noto font family.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[36,39254,167,39252],"class_list":["post-182318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-active","tag-fonts","tag-google","tag-noto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182322,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182318\/revisions\/182322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}