When text is rendered by a computer, sometimes characters are displayed as “tofu”. They are little boxes to indicate your device doesn’t have a font to display the text.
Google has been developing a font family called Noto, which aims to support all languages with a harmonious look and feel. Noto is Google’s answer to tofu. The name noto is to convey the idea that Google’s goal is to see “no more tofu”. Noto has multiple styles and weights, and freely available to all.
Die meisten Anwender gebrauchen Schriften, die sich auf ihrem Desktop tummeln, ­ohne lange zu fragen. Schrift ist zum Allgemeingut geworden, und ohne Schrift lässt sich kein PC und kein Mac bedienen. Hier lesen Sie, was Sie ausserhalb der gestalterischen Aspekte wissen sollten.
Titillium is born inside the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino as a didactic project Course Type design of the Master of Visual Design Campi Visivi
The aim of the project is the creation of a collective fonts released under OFL to be promoted and shared through a web platform. Each academic year, a dozen of students are working on the project developing and solving problems. The type designers interested in the amendment or revision of Titillium are invited to cooperate or develop their own variants of the character according to the terms specified in the license. We also asking the graphic designers who use Titillium in their projects to send us some character´s imagines used in order to prepare a case histories database.