Noto Serif
Designed By
18 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Noto Serif · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
18 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Noto Serif ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
Set Your Own Text
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Notes toward a common alphabet
A Page In Noto Serif
Noto Serif · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
18 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
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Black Italic900
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The script-specific Noto Serif fonts need a partner for the Latin, Greek and Cyrillic that sits around them, and Noto Serif is that partner, a modulated design for those 3 alphabets.
Those 3 alphabets carry a lot of history between them. Greek has written the Greek language since the 8th century BCE, and its 24 letters were standardized in the 4th century BCE; it was written with 3 accents until 1982, when Greece moved to monotonic spelling with a single diacritic. Cyrillic was created in the 9th century, traditionally credited to Saint Cyril, a monk from Thessaloniki working in Bulgaria, and Peter the Great reformed it in 1708. Latin, derived from Western Greek and attested in Rome in the 7th century BCE, now writes over 3,000 languages.
The family on this page is large:
- 18 styles, Thin at 100 to Black at 900, each weight with an italic.
- Small caps, old style and lining figures, tabular and proportional figures, a slashed zero and 3 stylistic sets.
- Latin with Vietnamese, plus Greek and Cyrillic, including the extended ranges.
The italic runs slightly narrower than the roman, so it sits a little tighter in a sentence. For a multilingual book or a scholarly site we would treat it as the default and only swap in something with more character for display. It has been on Google Fonts since 2013.
Characters & Figures
2,965 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Noto Serif
18 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 4.6 MB ↓- Version
- 2.015
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/noto-serif-2/noto-serif-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Noto Serif', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Noto Serif Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.