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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 Family | Noto Sans Shavian |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Noto Sans Shavian Regular |
| Version | 2.001 |
| Weight | 400 (Regular) |
| Glyph Count | 388 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | NotoSansShavian-Regular |
| Designer | Monotype Design Team |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 52.8 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
- 1Download the Noto Sans Shavian font file (.ttf or .otf).
- 2Locate the downloaded file in your Downloads folder.
- 3Right-click the font file.
- 4Select "Install" to install for the current user, or "Install for all users" to make it available system-wide.
- 5Noto Sans Shavian is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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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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