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| Prior Release Notes |
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| Noto Serif CJK 1.000 Release Notes |
| ================================== |
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| April 4, 2017 (addendum) |
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| Please note that due to GitHub restrictions the all-in-one Serif .ttc is not |
| available via this repo as it exceeds the 100MB GitHub limit. Please use the |
| links under "Super OpenType/CFF Collection (Super OTC)" on this page instead: |
| http://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk |
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| April 3, 2017 |
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| Introducing Noto Serif CJK 1.000 |
| |
| This introduces a serif-style companion to Noto Sans CJK. These fonts are again |
| offered in seven weights, though they are slightly different-- ExtraLight, |
| Light, Regular, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and Black. Unlike the Sans there are no |
| monospace (ASCII-only) versions of these fonts. |
| |
| The packaging options are the same as for the Sans: you can choose from an |
| all-in-one CJK TTC, seven weight-specific CJK TTCs, twenty-eight CJK OTF files |
| (four languages x seven weights) that default to one of the four supported |
| languages, and twenty-eight region-specific OTF files (four regions x seven |
| weights) that support a region-specific subset of the full character repertoire. |
| |
| The character repertoire is shared among all the Serif CJK fonts but there are |
| slight differences between them and the Sans CJK. About 50 characters, mostly |
| new in Unicode 8.0 and 9.0, have been added, and about 1700 Plane 2 characters |
| (mostly CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B) have been temporarily removed (Hong |
| Kong support will be added in Version 2.000). The Serif CJK fonts support |
| approximately 43,000 characters with 65535 glyphs, the maximum number of glyphs |
| possible in a single font. Most of the additional glyphs are regional variants, |
| there are also specific japanese variants, ideographic variation sequences, |
| vertical variants, precomposed Korean Jamo, and others. |
| |
| As with Sans CJK, Noto Serif CJK was developed under an open source license by |
| Adobe Systems, Inc. and is almost identical to their Source Han Serif. Please |
| see the detailed Adobe release notes for more information. |
| |
| Noto Serif CJK is licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1. |
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| Noto Sans CJK 1.004 Release Notes |
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| June 15, 2015 |
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| - Restore correct vertical Japanese Kana forms |
| |
| The vertical kana glyphs that are made accessible via the 'vert' GSUB feature were |
| inadvertently reverted to their Version 1.000 forms (except for those that were added in |
| Version 1.002, meaning CIDs 65496 through 65505) in Version 1.002, which affected CIDs |
| 65166 through 65251, 65256 through 65258, 65260 through 65352, 65354 through 65369, and |
| 65471 through 65484. The correct forms, which were present in Version 1.001, are now |
| included. |
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| Noto Sans CJK 1.003 Release Notes |
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| June 8, 2015 |
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| - Regularized the vertical metrics across all weights by setting the O/2.uWinAscent and |
| O/2.uWinDescent values to 1160 and 320 respectively and using those sames values in the |
| horizontal header (hhea) table. |
| - The ‘locl’ GSUB feature was reconfigured to be usable in a broader range of contexts. |
| |
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| Noto Sans CJK 1.002 Release Notes |
| ================================= |
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| April 20, 2015 |
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| This release includes a license change, the addition of several new font instances, and a |
| number of bug fixes. |
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| License Change |
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| The open source license is changed from Apache License, Version 2.0 to SIL Open Font |
| License, Version 1.1. |
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| New Font Instances |
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| In total eight (4 languages x 2 weights) monospaced half-width OTF fonts were added, in |
| regular and bold weights. |
| |
| - Noto Sans Mono CJK SC Regular and Bold |
| - Noto Sans Mono CJK JP Regular and Bold |
| - Noto Sans Mono CJK KR Regular and Bold |
| - Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Regular and Bold |
| |
| The monospace fonts differ from the existing ones only in that the default (encoded) |
| glyphs for ASCII (U+0020 to U+007E), U+00A0 ( ), U+00A5 (¥), U+2011 (‑), and U+20A9 (₩) |
| are half-width instead of proportional. |
| |
| The new monospace fonts can be found in: |
| - All-in-one CJK super OTC font (now includes 36 font instances) |
| - CJK OTF fonts with different default language (two additional font instances for each |
| language) |
| - NotoSansCJK-Regular.ttc and NotoSansCJK-Bold.ttc (four additional font instances in |
| each) |
| |
| Although eight new font instances were added, the footprint of the super OTC only |
| increased by 1M or so, mainly due to the four additional 'cmap' tables. Two of the seven |
| OTC now contain eight font instances. |
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| Bug Fixes |
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| The Noto issues that have been fixed include: |
| |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=74 |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=126 |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=136 |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=151 |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=182 |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=193 |
| - https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=266 |
| |
| In addition to the issues tracked at code.google.com/p/noto/issues, there are also a |
| number of fixes to issues tracked at https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans. |
| Please find the details in the release notes for Source Han Sans. |
| |
| |
| Noto Sans CJK 1.001 Release Notes |
| ================================= |
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| September 12, 2014 |
| |
| With this release there have been a number of bug fixes and some |
| reorganization of the packages. The package reorganization carries with it |
| a small name change that affects the name of the file, menu name, and the |
| internal PostScript name of the original OTF format font. This is a one |
| time name change only and names will be stable going forward. |
| |
| Bug Fixes |
| --------- |
| There have been a number of fixes but the two most obvious ones are the fix |
| in the alignment of the traditional Chinese punctuation and adjustment of |
| the designs used for traditional Chinese to align better for usage in Hong |
| Kong. |
| |
| https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=38 |
| https://code.google.com/p/noto/issues/detail?id=54 |
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| Package Reorganization |
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| With this release there was an expansion in the number of file formats and |
| combinations in which the fonts are being made available. |
| |
| There are now four major groups of font files by package in this release. |
| These are: |
| |
| * Super OpenType Collection (Super OTC) |
| - This is a new format this release that bundles all 7 weights for all 4 |
| languages into one large font resource. It is smaller overall than |
| the combination of the 28 fonts that would be used otherwise because |
| of resource sharing and it is much easier to install. |
| |
| * OpenType Collection (OTC) |
| - Each OTC fully supports each of the four languages. There are 7 of these |
| with one for each weight. |
| |
| * Language Specific OTF |
| - Each font file supports each of the four languages by using the OpenType |
| ‘locl’ feature. However, by default, when the ‘locl’ feature is not |
| used, each font file supports a specific language. That means that |
| there are 28 font files - 4 languages x 7 weights. |
| - This format of 4 language specific variants is new with this release and |
| replaces the previous single language variant that required the use of |
| the ‘locl’ feature. This is where the name change occurred as we now |
| tag the various versions with the name of the default language. |
| |
| * Region Specific OTF subsets |
| - Each font file supports a region specific subset of the full fonts. |
| These contain only the glyphs needed for the specific region. There |
| are 28 of these font files - 4 languages x 7 weights. |
