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Special characters, symbols, emotes #148

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I have been frustrated for some time on the crippling unavailability of any 
font which has both an aesthetically pleasing typeface and includes any 
significant amount of Unicode's special characters, symbols, and emotes. Many 
look excellent but lack wide support for Unicode's special characters. Others 
have most of Unicode's special characters, but either don't actually include 
language characters of any kind (as is the case with Noto Sans Symbols, which 
means the system default font is used for missing characters) or simply use 
ugly glyphs. Is there any way I can have both the symbols and my preferred 
language in one font?

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Onihik...@gmail.com on 13 Sep 2014 at 9:33

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Different people have different needs about what should be in that "one font", 
so short of putting every character in the font (which is impossible, since we 
will blow the glyph limit), the only solution is either using two or more fonts 
through fallback mechanisms such as CSS's font-family, or merging the 
characters you need from different compatible fonts.

The second can be done using fontTools 
(https://github.com/googlei18n/fonttools) and nototools (the nototools 
subdirectory in Noto's git repository). See pyftmerge in fonttools and 
merge_noto.pt in nototools for how this can be done.

Original comment by roozbeh@google.com on 14 Sep 2014 at 6:13