Go Noto Europe Americas 2.012 (NotEA), 13577 glyphs.Go Noto Current 2.012 (NotC), 32385 glyphs.Go Noto Ancient 2.012 (NotA), 25030 glyphs.We also have the Google Fonts collection as at 11 April 2022 analysed according to these criteria, as a spreadsheet (.ods). The user-selectable glyph coverage tables are below. Attempts to do it all programmatically and via Latex failed due to issues with PHP and Latex.įirst are sample images of each font, and abbreviation for the column headings in the table below.įont size for the letterforms is 28pt, while the sentences are 12pt. The text samples were made in LibreOffice, and then screenshotted (?). To be fair to these, the samplesīelow relied on LibreOffice and the OS font engine to do the bold and italic variations, rather than from dedicated fonts, which are usually not installed. However, fonts with wide glyph support often only come in a regular weight. Ideally you would want a font that also had bold and italic variants. I have included them because there are particular use cases where they could be appropriate.
Not all of these fonts are suited for your main text, especially the monospace ones. Some overlap with Kurinto Sans Music listed above, but the Europe Americas version has almost complete coverage of the Unicode blocks in my academic selections.Įach Noto Go font includes the following blocks by default: In 2024 I added three of the Go Noto universal fonts which are fonts made by combining selected separate Noto fonts. I did not include the usual Latex fonts because they are getting old and their glyph coverage is not keeping up. I have included Arial, Helvetica, Segoe UI Symbol and Times New Roman, since they are so pervasive. The mapping from these popular fonts to Kurinto is The Kurinto fonts are based on and extend popular free fonts like Arimo, Kelvinch, Cardo, Carlito, Noto Sans, Fira Sans, Junicode, Libertinus Sans, Tinos, Charis SIL, and Courier Prime. You could also check the full Kurinto fonts collection (some included here), and the TypoPro collection. "Smirnoff" highlights issues with r n looking like m, and how ff renders. These are highlighted in the custom sentence, which also gives a feel for the "darkness" of the font, and its typical kerning. The "defining features" of a font are usually in how certain letters are drawn, in particular capitals A C E G I J K M O Q R S W, lowercase a e g i j l o y, some punctuation like ?. Neither is really recommended for serious publications. Arial is included, but not Calibri, due to its peculiarities. Font styles are typically "classical" serif, with a few sans-serifs. The focus is on western academia, so I did not consider CJK-and-related coverage. This page shows the glyph coverage for various popular academic fonts.įonts were selected based on recomendations on various sites, or for having wide glyph coverage, particularly in mathematics and historical languages.