Noto: a font with 300,000 letters for 800 different languages

Publishing is global. This means that apart from world languages such as English and Spanish a global publisher needs to support 300 other languages. If you add all of these up you get 300,000 different characters. Google, which is making a name for itself with automated translation of web content, is facing this problem head-on. It is developing, together with font designer Monotype, a new font Noto which captures every letter of each of the approximately 20,000 spoken languages in the world. Noto, a combination of no more and tofu. Tofu is the name of the cube you get when your browser doesn´t recognize a symbol. Noto has 10 times as many symbols as Unicode. Via this link you can download the font for free. Undoubtedly Google will implement Noto in the new scale-able computer operating system which will be the heart of any computer device from IoT to smartphone to desktop computer. This is the link to an article on this new font.