Noto Sans: Latin Extended-C-D-E characters required

[tarrinw]

There are a large number of research and related projects working on medieval texts that require characters found in the Unicode Latin Extended D range (also C and E and various other codecharts). The MUFI project (https://mufi.info) has worked over a number of years to get these characters into the Unicode standard.

The Cardo font covers a lot but not all Unicode additions, and in any case web applications require simple, high-quality fonts. Noto Sans aims for comprehensiveness so would be an ideal candidate for a font that supported these characters.

Potential projects that could make use of this font include:
http://clarino.uib.no/menota/catalogue
https://skaldic.abdn.ac.uk
https://onp.ku.dk
http://handrit.org

[thlinard]

Perhaps the best place for such a request is https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-fonts (otherwise, this issue is a duplicate of #1717).

Also worth checking is #2370.

[tarrinw]

Thanks - #1717 seems to be mostly about font variants rather than character coverage. #2370 is interesting — I've asked Peter previously if he would get his Junicode font in here. I'll add something there and post the original request to the noto repo as you suggest.

[thlinard]

#1717 is more generally about getting the latest release of Noto Sans on Google Fonts (they are way behind). There is no point in having improvements made to Noto Sans if they never get here.

[psb1558]

I mentioned in #2080 that Junicode needed a lot of work before it would pass the QA and other tests required here. That work is underway (now that, in lockdown, I've not got a lot else to do!). Tarrin, I'd like very much to get your impression of Elstob #2370, the idea of which is not comprehensive coverage (I don't know how one could do all of MUFI in a variable font), but rather selecting the things in Unicode (avoiding the PUA) most likely to be useful to medievalists.