Noto in Chrome?

[G. Necsa-Damacus]

Hi,

Just wanted to ask how can I get Chrome to use Noto. I am sick and tired
of Facebook showing me boxes instead of emojis and think Noto will solve
the issue. Thank you.

Sincerely yours,
George Necsa

[Jukka K. Korpela]

If you just install all the Noto fonts in your system, as instructed at
https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/install/

browsers should use them at least for characters that cannot be found

in any other font in your system. There are some bugs in browsers in

this respect, but I think Chrome handles the situation OK.

This may result in a stylistic mismatch, showing characters in

some Noto fonts in the midst of some text in a rather different font.

But this is still better than seeing tofu.

If you would like to use Noto fonts as primary fonts in some browsers,

either in general or for some sites, I think the best approach is to

install the Stylebot add-on and write a piece of CSS, with some font-family

declarations with long lists of Noto fonts. (I can post some CSS code for

this if it is relevant). So it’s more complicated, but not really rocket science.