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Full range of font weights (thin to black) is not available in Western font, although it is in CJK versions #88

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
Noto Sans Japanese, for example, is available in seven weights: Black, Bold, 
Medium, Regular, DemiLight, Light and Thin. This includes the Western / Latin 
characters. However, the basic Noto Sans is only available in Regular and Bold.

It seems to me that the work is already done, and these extra weights could be 
made available by packaging the Western sets from the CJK fonts.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by hugh.spi...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2014 at 12:34

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
The Western glyphs in Noto Sans CJK are based on Source Sans Pro, not Noto 
Sans, so re-packaging those glyphs as separate Noto Sans font resources is a 
non-starter. There is some history behind the development of Noto Sans CJK that 
resulted in a total of seven weights, but that is out of scope of this 
discussion.

Original comment by ken.lu...@gmail.com on 22 Jul 2014 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
As Ken says, the LGC that is in Noto CJK is not directly related to the Noto 
LGC fonts. This is outside the scope of the current project.

Original comment by stua...@google.com on 23 Jul 2014 at 12:41