Google Noto

For more than five years, hundreds of Monotype’s type designers, Google tech folk, linguists, anthropologists, historians, Buddhist monks and other specialists worked together on a quest to rid the internet of ‘tofu’ – the little blank squares that browsers throw up when they don’t have the characters to hand. The result of their labours is Noto – a family of typefaces designed to accommodate every language and script on earth. We flew to Silicon Valley to find out how it all came together…