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

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About Noto Sans Yi Font

Noto Sans Yi is an unmodulated (“sans serif”) design for texts in the East Asian Yi script. Noto Sans Yi contains 1,251 glyphs, and supports 1,250 characters from 4 Unicode blocks: Yi Syllables, Yi Radicals, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms. Supported writing systems Yi Yi (Modern Yi, ꆈꌠꁱꂷ ) is an East Asian logo-syllabary, written horizontally left-to-right (modern) or vertically right-to-left (traditional). Used for the Nuosu Yi language (2 million users) in the Liangshan Yi region of China. Yi signs are made from five basic strokes; dot, horizontal line, vertical line, arch and circle. Attested 500 years ago, believed to be use for perhaps even 5000 years. 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 Yi Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Sans Yi
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Sans Yi Regular
Version2.002
Weight400 (Regular)
Glyph Count1591 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoSansYi-Regular
DesignerMonotype Design Team
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size323.6 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Sans Yi 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 Yi supports 284 languages.

How to Install Noto Sans Yi Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

  1. 1Download the Noto Sans Yi 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 Yi is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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What pairs well with Noto Sans Yi Font?

Noto Sans Yi 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 Yi Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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