Thread: What is 4.34's font list?
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Old 12-23-2022, 03:12 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by lensmann View Post
The Noto font family is created by Google. Google's main Noto Sans and Noto Serif fonts support Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek scripts. Each of the 90 other scripts supported by the font family is in a separate file. Google's official explanation for this is that OpenType fonts have a hard limit of 65,535 glyphs, and the full Noto font family has a lot more than that.

From Kobo's point of view, my guess would be that they don't want the added hassle of having to maintain a fork of the Noto fonts which combines the scripts they support into a single file -it's probably easier for them to just use the files provided by Google and add in whatever e-ink optimizations they put in.
Yeah, being able to take upstream code/data verbatim is rather important. Thanks for the pointer to Google's FAQ too!
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