Google has released a new font family – Noto which is designed to visually harmonise wayfinding and other signage, maybe international webpages too. Interesting idea, nice interactive site for playing with the different languages and previewing weights etc. Not sure if this is culturally effective — how much consultation was done with non-roman character using people as to the personality and respect of those faces? Always wary about choosing faces in character sets I know little about.
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