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

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About Noto Serif JP Font

Noto Serif JP is a modulated (“serif”) design for the Japanese language and other languages used in Japan. It supports Hiragana , Katakana , Kanji , Latin, Cyrillic, Greek and Hangul . Noto Serif CJK JP contains 65,535 glyphs, 25 OpenType features, and supports 43,029 characters from 53 Unicode blocks: CJK Unified Ideographs, Hangul Syllables, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension A, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B, CJK Compatibility Ideographs, Hangul Jamo, CJK Compatibility, Halfwidth and Fullwidth Forms, Kangxi Radicals, Enclosed CJK Letters and Months, Enclosed Alphanumeric Supplement, Box Drawing, CJK Radicals Supplement, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension E, Katakana, Hangul Compatibility Jamo, Hiragana, Latin Extended Additional, Latin-1 Supplement, Basic Latin, Enclosed Alphanumerics, Mathematical Operators, Hangul Jamo Extended-B, Cyrillic, Enclosed Ideographic Supplement, CJK Symbols and Punctuation, Miscellaneous Symbols, Greek and Coptic, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension C, CJK Compatibility Ideographs Supplement, Bopomofo, Geometric Shapes, CJK Strokes, General Punctuation, CJK Unified Ideographs Extension D, Block Elements, CJK Compatibility Forms, Latin Extended-A, Hangul Jamo Extended-A, Bopomofo Extended, Miscellaneous Technical, Small Form Variants, Arrows, Latin Extended-B, Letterlike Symbols, Katakana Phonetic Extensions, Kanbun, Ideographic Description Characters, Vertical Forms, Dingbats, Spacing Modifier Letters, Alphabetic Presentation Forms, Miscellaneous

Style & Use Cases

Overall Style
Ultra-light, Classic, Refined, Serif
Use Case
Editorial, Print
Ideal For
book covers, long-form text, and traditional branding
Pairs With
a clean sans-serif for captions

Noto Serif JP Specifications

Font FamilyNoto Serif JP ExtraLight
StyleRegular
Full NameNoto Serif JP ExtraLight
Version2.003-H1
Weight200 (ExtraLight)
Glyph Count17923 glyphs
PostScript NameNotoSerifJP-ExtraLight
DesignerRyoko NISHIZUKA 西塚涼子 (kana & ideographs); Frank Grießhammer (Latin, Greek & Cyrillic); Wenlong ZHANG 张文龙 (bopomofo); Sandoll Communications 산돌커뮤니케이션, Soohyun PARK 박수현, Yejin WE 위예진 & Donghoon HAN 한동훈 (hangul elements, letters & syllables)
FormatTTF (TrueType)
File Size13256.2 KB

OpenType Features

Noto Serif JP ships with 3 OpenType features you can switch on in apps that support them (Illustrator, InDesign, Affinity, Figma, CSS font-feature-settings).

  • Discretionary ligatures
  • Historical forms
  • Standard ligatures
  • Variable font · axes: wght

Languages Supported

Noto Serif JP supports 255 languages.

How to Install Noto Serif JP Font

Step-by-step instructions for every platform

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

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

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Noto Serif JP Font

by Google

Reviewed by the FontBoxDL team · Updated July 2026

License: Open Font License (OFL)
Free
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