Google’s gone to great effort to remove language as a barrier from communication on the web with its continually evolving translation technologies, and along a similar vein it just released a new open-source font called Noto.
Noto is an acronym for "No more tofu". And what is "tofu"? Tofu is the word for the empty box icon that shows up in a text when a character isn't recognized by your computer's software. Google eliminated "tofu" with an open source font system that gets rid of that character recognition problem.
Noto is the result of five years of work by Google in partnership with the type-related technology company Monotype, as well as Adobe and a network of volunteers. Noto is an open-source family of fonts that supports the display of some 110,000 characters from 800 languages.
