Noto Sans Shavian by Google — Sans Serif Font — preview 11 / 3
The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog

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About Noto Sans Shavian Font

Noto Sans Shavian is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the historical artificial Shavian script. Noto Sans Shavian contains 53 glyphs, and supports 52 characters from the Unicode block Shavian. Supported writing systems Shavian Shavian ( 𐑖𐑱𐑝𐑾𐑯 𐑨𐑤𐑓𐑩𐑚𐑧𐑑 ) is an artificial alphabet, written left-to-right. Created around 1960 by Ronald Kingsley Read for phonetic spelling of English. The winning entry in a competition posthumously funded by playwright Bernard Shaw. Also adopted for Esperanto. Needs software support for complex text layout (shaping). Read more on ScriptSource , Unicode , Wikipedia , Wiktionary , r12a .

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Clean, Modern, Sans Serif
Use Case
Body Text, UI
Ideal For
branding, interfaces, and modern layouts
Pairs With
a contrasting serif for headings

Noto Sans Shavian Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Sans Shavian
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Sans Shavian Regular
Version2.001
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count388 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoSansShavian-Regular
DesignerMonotype Design Team
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size52.8 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Sans Shavian ships with 1 OpenType feature you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Ordinals

Languages Supported

Noto Sans Shavian supports 283 languages.

How to Install Noto Sans Shavian Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Noto Sans Shavian font file (.ttf or .otf).
  2. 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
  3. 3Right-click the font file.
  4. 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
  5. 5Noto Sans Shavian is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Noto Sans Shavian Font?

Noto Sans Shavian Font is a versatile sans-serif font that works for both headings and body text. Pair it with a contrasting serif or slab serif font to add visual interest and a clear distinction between titles and body copy.

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Noto Sans Shavian Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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