| September 19, 2017 |
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| Phase 3 font update |
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| We're releasing updated versions of about 75 Noto families, built from sources |
| using our open source pipeline. Many of these have additional weights, and some |
| have multiple widths as well. The result is the number of font files has |
| increased about 10x over the previous set. |
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| Most of the new fonts follow the original designs, but a few are new designs. |
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| A number of families have not yet been updated, we will get to those as the |
| phase 3 work progresses. Others are obsoleted by newer designs. We will |
| eventually move the fonts that will not get new updates to a new location to |
| more clearly distinguish them. |
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| The new fonts, although .ttf, are built on a 1000 upem grid. This means they |
| cannot be merged with the older fonts built with the standard ttf 2048 upem. |
| This is a problem for those who wish to build a single font file from multiple |
| Noto fonts. Eventually this will improve, for now our apologies. We are also |
| looking at other packaging to make using the fonts easier. |
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| September 29, 2015 |
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| All Noto fonts now licensed under Open Font License 1.1 |
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| With the new release we have moved from Apache 2.0 to Open Font License 1.1 (OFL 1.1). We |
| are making this change because it makes it easier for you, the end users of Noto, to use |
| the fonts that we produce. When we first released the Noto fonts the OFL license was |
| still a bit of an unknown entity and the Apache license looked familiar to us. Over the |
| years the OFL license has become the most commonly used and understood license to use for |
| open source fonts. |
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| All of our fonts going forward from this release will be available only under the OFL |
| license. If you still want the fonts under the Apache license you can get them from the |
| repo using the tag 'v2015-09-29-license-apache'. However, new fonts and updates to |
| existing fonts will use the OFL license. |
