no more tofu
October 6, 2016 5:32 PM   Subscribe

 
It's not necessarily super clear in the article, but here's the download link for half a gigabyte of fonts
posted by DoctorFedora at 5:45 PM on October 6, 2016 [5 favorites]


Ugh I hate that about my car (probably the only thing). Anything that isn't ASCII shows up as an asterisk. Even Japanese, and it's a Japanese car!
posted by oceanjesse at 6:23 PM on October 6, 2016 [2 favorites]


I never knew people referred to the little "undefined character" boxes as tofu. As a flip-phone man in a world of emojis, I am served heaps of cold, disappointing tofu on a daily basis by my loved ones.
posted by duffell at 6:33 PM on October 6, 2016 [8 favorites]


This is great, although two of the fonts didn't want to install. Lao and another that I didn't think to note.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 6:39 PM on October 6, 2016


This is the only thing Google's done since its original search product that makes the world a better place.
posted by ArmandoAkimbo at 7:50 PM on October 6, 2016 [4 favorites]


My system balks at NotoColorEmoji.ttf, declaring it an invalid font file.
posted by fredludd at 8:29 PM on October 6, 2016


There are at least three different incompatible "standards" for color emoji fonts, and some font renderers don't support any of them.
posted by mbrubeck at 8:35 PM on October 6, 2016


This reminds me of Quivira, a project to encompass as many Unicode characters as possible in a single font (already discussed here).
posted by spheniscus at 10:37 PM on October 6, 2016


It's really unfortunate that it's next to impossible to customize font selection (default and fallback) and rendering settings on Windows. Having a single word or phrase rendered in multiple clashing fonts is infuriating. On Linux (is this possible on Mac?), a judicious use of fontconfig settings and a suitable family of fonts like Noto can ensure one language, one font (or a different but indistinguishable font).

OTOH, my dad (and I suspect a lot of people) really like the older, sharper-with-embedded-bitmap fonts, esp for CJK. They're more readable for a lot of people on low resolution screens than the heavily smoothed but less rigidly hinted fonts that's become popular with subpixel rendering.
posted by The arrows are too fast at 12:26 AM on October 7, 2016


Thanks for the direct link, DoctorFedora. Wired doesn't like ad blocker users.
posted by tommasz at 7:43 AM on October 7, 2016


Thanks for the direct link, DoctorFedora. Wired doesn't like ad blocker users.

Better for Safari seems to cope with it.
posted by acb at 8:48 AM on October 7, 2016


So, can that dude spell his name in Bengali, now, using this font? (Was reminded of it when I saw Bengali on the list.)
posted by one weird trick at 9:41 AM on October 7, 2016


Aditya Mukerjee
posted by one weird trick at 10:41 AM on October 7, 2016


Wow, what a task. I wonder how large the team was, even split over six years you only get like five minutes per glyph.
posted by lucidium at 2:14 PM on October 7, 2016


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