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Noto CJK is available in multiple formats which have different uses. Each of
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these font formats used below has the capability to display both horizontal
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and vertical forms where appropriate. Any of the fonts that support
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Japanese will also be able to support proportional kana.
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Note: New in release 1.002 were 'Monospace' versions. These provide half-width
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instead of proportional widths for ASCII (U+0020 to U+007E) and the following
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characters: U+00A0, U+00A5, U+2011, and U+20A9. These come in two weights
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(Regular and Bold) for each of the five languages. These fonts have 'Mono' in
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the family name, e.g. 'Noto Sans Mono CJK {HK, JP, KR, SC, TC}'.
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Super OTC
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This packaging form carries the fonts for each of Simplified Chinese,
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Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese HK, Japanese, and Korean multiplied
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by all 7 weights for each in one single font file. In addition, each language
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provides monospace versions in Regular and Bold weights. Once installed it
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will appear in font menus as 45 separate fonts. This format is the easiest to
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install of all the formats and takes the least space due to sharing between the
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45 pieces.
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This format works on recent versions of Mac and Linux but
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unfortunately Windows does not support it.
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OTC
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This packaging form carries the fonts for each of Simplified Chinese,
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Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese HK, Japanese, and Korean in a single font file. Once
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installed it will appear in font menus as four or eight separate fonts. This
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format is the easiest to install and compared to installing separate fonts
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takes less space. There are 7 of these OTC font files with one for each weight
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from Thin to Black.
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Two of these files (Regular and Bold) also contain new 'Monospace' versions for
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each language. These files appear in font menus as eight separate fonts.
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This format works on recent versions of Mac and Linux but
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unfortunately Windows does not support it.
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Multilingual OTF
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This packaging form has 5 language specific variants that have all the same
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glyph coverage as the OTC format but provide language coverage through the
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use of the OpenType 'locl' feature. In each of these font files there is a
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single default language which is used when the 'locl' feature isn't
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specified. There are 35 of these files (5 language default variants * 7
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weights).
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Each language also provides Monospace variants in Regular and Bold. There are 10
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of these files (5 language default variants * 2 weights).
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Region-specific OTF
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This packaging form provides monolingual subset versions of the fonts. There is
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a separate font file for each of Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese HK,
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Japanese, and Korean. If you want to install one language only then this
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would be the option to consider. It will have the smallest space requirement.
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It would also be the choice if you want to use the font on a system
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(such as Windows) that doesn't support the OTC format and can’t use the OpenType
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‘locl’ feature to select language.
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The region-specific OTFs do not include the Monospace versions.
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