Open artsyhugh opened 1 month ago
All of this changed without much explanation anywhere, but the short answer for the names is that we introduced variable fonts and Google Fonts dropped the "CJK" fonts. Google Fonts used to only serve the static fonts and those have been swapped out with the variable fonts. And since the subset versions are smaller it makes more sense to serve those because in the end that should give anybody the benefit of faster loading even if using more than one region. There are still two versions available in this repo with the full set of glyphs (65535) or the subset version for each region. It has always been a little confusing for everyone to have multiple versions so it's maybe better for some users to have this simpler setup. If you really need the CJK version with 65535 glyphs you can download it from this repo, but for most situations the subsets served by Google Fonts should suffice.
Because these are the subsets the descriptions are wrong as you found out. The detailed information about everything is in https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-sans/blob/release/SourceHanSansReadMe.pdf and https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-han-serif/blob/release/SourceHanSerifReadMe.pdf
@chrissimpkins @davelab6 Who edits those pages like https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Sans+JP/about ?
Anyone can submit edits to that content here:
https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/notosansjp/DESCRIPTION.en_us.html
https://github.com/google/fonts/blob/main/ofl/notosansjp/article/ARTICLE.en_us.html
Defect Report
Title
The About information some Noto Sans on Google Fonts seems to be inaccurate.
Font
All fonts in the following families: Noto Sans/Serif, Noto Sans/Serif Japanese/Korean/Hong Kong/Traditional Chinese/Simplified Chinese
Where the font came from, and when
Google Fonts, July 2024
Issue
I tried asking this at https://groups.google.com/g/googlefonts-discuss, hoping to get a more direct answer from the approriate community, but I haven't gotten a response in quite some time. I figured that since the project is maintained here, somebody here might be responsible for updating About information.
The About information some Noto Sans seems to be inaccurate: