| Noto CJK is available in multiple formats which have different uses. Each of |
| these font formats used below has the capability to display both horizontal |
| and vertical forms where appropriate. Any of the fonts that support |
| Japanese will also be able to support proportional kana. |
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| Note: New in release 1.002 are 'Monospace' versions. These provide half-width |
| instead of proportional widths for ASCII (U+0020 to U+007E) and the following |
| characters: U+00A0, U+00A5, U+2011, and U+20A9. These come in two weights |
| (Regular and Bold) for each of the four languages. These fonts have 'Mono' in |
| the family name, e.g. 'Noto Sans Mono CJK {JP, KR, SC, TC}'. |
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| Super OTC |
| ========= |
| This packaging form carries the fonts for each of Simplified Chinese, |
| Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean multiplied by all 7 weights for |
| each in one single font file. In addition, each language provides monospace |
| versions in Regular and Bold weights. Once installed it will appear in font |
| menus as 36 separate fonts. This format is the easiest to install of all the |
| formats and takes the least space due to sharing between the 36 pieces. |
| |
| This format works on recent versions of Mac and Linux but |
| unfortunately Windows does not support it. |
| |
| OTC |
| === |
| This packaging form carries the fonts for each of Simplified Chinese, |
| Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in a single font file. Once |
| installed it will appear in font menus as four or eight separate fonts. This |
| format is the easiest to install and compared to installing separate fonts |
| takes less space. There are 7 of these OTC font files with one for each weight |
| from Thin to Black. |
| |
| Two of these files (Regular and Bold) also contain new 'Monospace' versions for |
| each language. These files appear in font menus as eight separate fonts. |
| |
| This format works on recent versions of Mac and Linux but |
| unfortunately Windows does not support it. |
| |
| Multilingual OTF |
| ================ |
| This packaging form has 4 language specific variants that have all the same |
| glyph coverage as the OTC format but provide language coverage through the |
| use of the OpenType 'locl' feature. In each of these font files there is a |
| single default language which is used when the 'locl' feature isn't |
| specified. There are 28 of these files (4 language default variants * 7 |
| weights). |
| |
| Each language also provides Monospace variants in Regular and Bold. There are 8 |
| of these files (4 language default variants * 2 weights). |
| |
| Region-specific OTF |
| =================== |
| This packaging form provides monolingual subset versions of the fonts. There is |
| a separate font file for each of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, |
| Japanese, and Korean. If you want to install one language only then this |
| would be the option to consider. It will have the smallest space requirement. |
| It would also be the choice if you want to use the font on a system |
| (such as Windows) that doesn't support the OTC format and can’t use the OpenType |
| ‘locl’ feature to select language. |
| |
| The region-specific OTFs do not include the Monospace versions. |
