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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 Family | Noto Serif JP ExtraLight |
| Style | Regular |
| Full Name | Noto Serif JP ExtraLight |
| Version | 2.003-H1 |
| Weight | 200 (ExtraLight) |
| Glyph Count | 17923 glyphs |
| PostScript Name | NotoSerifJP-ExtraLight |
| Designer | Ryoko 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) |
| Format | TTF (TrueType) |
| File Size | 13256.2 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
- 1Download the Noto Serif JP 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 Serif JP is now available in Word, Photoshop, Illustrator, and all other apps.
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