Noto Sans Display
Noto Sans Display is a sans serif font in 9 weights with italics, also available as a variable font. Its lowercase letters are 3% narrower than the typical sans serif font. Last updated 10 September 2025.
Editing a PDF that uses Noto Sans Display
Most PDFs embed only the letters they already use. Type a new letter and many editors either refuse or swap in a different font. MythosPDF recognises Noto Sans Display from the widths stored in your PDF, loads the complete open font, and sets your new text in Noto Sans Display itself. The rest of the page is carried over untouched.
Measured metrics
| Average lowercase letter width | 501 units per 1000 em |
|---|---|
| Average capital letter width | 598.7 units per 1000 em |
| Word space | 244 units per 1000 em |
| Digits | tabular (every digit is 537 units wide, so columns of numbers line up) |
| Spacing | proportional |
| Width of i compared with m | 28% |
| Printable ASCII characters covered | 94 of 94 |
| Category | Sans serif |
Weights and styles
- Noto Sans Display Thin Italic
- Noto Sans Display Thin
- Noto Sans Display ExtraLight Italic
- Noto Sans Display ExtraLight
- Noto Sans Display Light Italic
- Noto Sans Display Light
- Noto Sans Display Italic
- Noto Sans Display Regular
- Noto Sans Display Medium Italic
- Noto Sans Display Medium
- Noto Sans Display SemiBold Italic
- Noto Sans Display SemiBold
- Noto Sans Display Bold Italic
- Noto Sans Display Bold
- Noto Sans Display ExtraBold Italic
- Noto Sans Display ExtraBold
- Noto Sans Display Black Italic
- Noto Sans Display Black
Languages beyond basic Latin
Open fonts closest to Noto Sans Display
Measured on every printable character both fonts contain. A smaller difference means the same words take the same space, so lines break in the same places.
- Khula Regularsimilar widths (15.9 units)
- Noto Sans Ethiopic Regularsimilar widths (19.4 units)
- Noto Sans Cherokee Regularsimilar widths (19.5 units)
- Noto Sans Georgian Regularsimilar widths (19.5 units)
- Noto Sans Regularsimilar widths (19.5 units)
- Noto Sans Arabic Regularsimilar widths (19.5 units)
- Noto Sans Symbols Regularsimilar widths (19.5 units)
- Noto Sans Thai Regularsimilar widths (19.5 units)
Compare Noto Sans Display
Questions people ask
+Can I edit a PDF that uses Noto Sans Display?
Yes. Drop the PDF into MythosPDF and click the text. New letters are set in Noto Sans Display itself, loaded from the open font, so the edit matches the rest of the page.
+Is Noto Sans Display free to use?
Noto Sans Display is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, an open licence that allows free use in documents, including commercial ones. Check the licence text for your exact use.
+Which font is closest to Noto Sans Display?
By measured letter widths, Khula is the closest match among open fonts (a mean difference of 15.9 units per 1000 em). Text set in one takes almost the same space in the other.
+Which languages does Noto Sans Display support?
It includes these character sets: Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Greek Extended, Latin, Central European, Vietnamese.
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