Noto Font Loader
Noto Font Loader is a WordPress plugin that applies Noto font to your site. It loads the correct Noto font file from Google Fonts depending on the site’s locale and overrides theme’s font settings.
The Goal
Most of WordPress themes are designed to display western languages. When I try to use them on Japanese sites, it looks awkward due to lack of proper font settings (these languages need to use a font other than default in order to look cool). So when I met Noto font, I liked the font’s concept to cover every Unicode letters.
But the font files are separated for each language’s character set. I thought it might be handy if the site could automatically choose which Noto font to use based on the site’s locale.
When To Use
This plugin might be for you if you are in either of below situations:
- Your site is translated into Chinese, Japanese and/or Korean
- You just want to use Noto font
Covered Languages
The plugin currently handles the language-font combinations listed below:
- Japanese – Noto Sans/Serif JP
- Korean – Noto Sans/Serif KR
- Simplified Chinese – Noto Sans/Serif SC
- Traditional Chinese – Noto Sans/Serif TC
These are the languages graduated from Early Access directory and officially listed in Google Fonts. I intend to update the plugin when the more languages are added in the future.
For all other locales, it uses standard Latin subset (Noto Sans/Serif).
Settings
From admin panel, you can choose what style to use from these 4 options:
- Sans-serif
- Serif
- Headers: Serif / Body: Sans-serif
- Headers: Sans-serif / Body: Serif
Download & install the zip archive
The plugin package installer can be downloaded from the WP2E project tab called “code”.
1 – Select the version to download if this option is available otherwise the “latest” version of the main plugin will be used.
2 – After downloading the zip archive install the plugin package installer in you local environment and activate the script from the plugin list.
3 – Under the section “Plugins” of the admin dashboard you should see a new “Dependencies & Licenses” link. Follow the instructions from this panel to finalize the installation of the missing dependencies.
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- Give a name to your project
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- Download the Installer Package
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- Install & activate the plugin locally
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- Install the suggested dependencies
Tips: Use the WP2E panel to add/suggest new dependencies to the local installation. Press F5 in the list of dependencies if the changes are not displayed right away.