---
title: "Noto fonts"
category: "Desktop and system"
tagline: "Fonts for nearly every language, color emoji, and the icon glyphs your terminal uses."
source: "pacman"
package: "noto-fonts"
website: "https://fonts.google.com/noto"
code: "https://github.com/notofonts"
links:
  - name: "Nerd Fonts"
    url: "https://www.nerdfonts.com/"
---

## What it is

Noto is a font family from Google that aims to cover every script in Unicode, so text in any language shows up instead of as empty boxes. noto-fonts-emoji adds Noto Color Emoji, the full set of color emoji. ttf-nerd-fonts-symbols adds the Nerd Fonts symbols: icons for files, folders, Git and programming languages that terminal tools draw with.

## Why it's here

- **No empty boxes.** Web pages and documents in any language display properly.
- **Emoji everywhere.** In chats, mail and the terminal.
- **Icons in the terminal.** The starship prompt and the `ls` aliases use them.

## On CoreDesktop

CoreDesktop installs all three packages from pacman. Nothing needs setting up: apps pick the fonts up automatically, and the icons show in the starship prompt and in `ls`, `ll`, `la` and `lt`, which run eza with icons, as described in the [shell setup](/system/#shell). `update` keeps them current.