# notofonts/noto-cjk

Noto CJK fonts

Repository: https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/noto-cjk
Homepage: http://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk
Language: Python
License Family: other
Last push: 2025-12-16T05:18:51+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 57, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 4108, "days_push": 260, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 4028, forks 273 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:32.723209+00:00)

## What it is
The Noto CJK font family, providing high-quality Sans and Serif fonts covering Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, and Hong Kong Chinese. The repository hosts font binaries, download guides, and release notes, with a small PyPI package for on-demand installation.

## Use cases
- render Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text without missing glyphs
- bundle CJK fonts with a desktop or web application
- install Noto CJK fonts on demand via pip
- find a free high-quality CJK font for design work
- support multiple CJK regional glyph variants (JP, KR, SC, TC, HK)

## When to choose
- you need comprehensive, well-maintained open-source CJK font coverage
- you want per-region glyph variants for Japanese, Korean, or Chinese
- you need fonts installable programmatically from PyPI

## When to avoid
- you only need Latin or non-CJK scripts
- you need a variable-font-only workflow not offered here
- you require a specific commercial font license

## Facets
- artifact type: dataset
- maturity: active
- function: internationalization
- domain: cross-platform, developer-tools
- platform: cross-platform, python
- tags: fonts, cjk, typography, noto, open-source-fonts, localization

## Member repositories
- notofonts/noto-cjk (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.723209+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:23:52.466613+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/notofonts/noto-cjk (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:32.723209+00:00, sha b9d6622b3c72)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/noto-cjk/json (fetched 2026-08-29T09:16:29.979407+00:00, sha 7784097cbb18)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.