Noto Sans Samaritan

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What do I do with this?

Just want to use the font? Click "Get this font on Google Fonts" to download it or add it directly to a document, design tool (like Canva or Photoshop), or your computer's font list.

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Noto Sans Samaritan is a clean, upright sans-serif typeface designed specifically to render the ancient Samaritan script with clarity and precision. Its letterforms are calm and structured, reflecting the careful engineering behind Google's Noto project, which aims to eliminate blank boxes and rendering failures across global scripts. The design prioritizes legibility over decorative flair, giving it a neutral, functional personality that sits comfortably alongside modern multilingual typographic systems. It carries a quiet sense of historical weight without leaning into ornamentation, making it feel scholarly but accessible.

Given its specialized nature, Noto Sans Samaritan is most useful in academic publishing and research platforms where Samaritan texts need to be displayed accurately alongside Latin or other scripts. It also works well in digital archives and museum interfaces that present ancient manuscripts or religious documents in an online format. Additionally, it serves a practical role in multilingual Bible or Torah study applications, where rendering historically significant scripts correctly is a functional requirement rather than a stylistic choice.

Best suited for: Consider Noto Sans Samaritan for interfaces, navigation, landing pages, brand systems, and content layouts that benefit from a practical sans-serif foundation.

Design considerations: This ProFont page provides one available variant, so typographic hierarchy will need to come primarily from size, spacing, color, or a supporting family. Test Noto Sans Samaritan with real project copy at the intended scale before using it across multiple text roles.

Pairing guidance: Consider Noto Serif for editorial headings or longer supporting text, Noto Sans for body copy, navigation, or interface text, and Noto Sans Hebrew for body copy, navigation, or interface text, assigning each family a distinct role alongside Noto Sans Samaritan.

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Which languages does Noto Sans Samaritan support?

Noto Sans Samaritan includes 3 character sets:

• Latin: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and other Western European languages
• Latin Extended: Central and Eastern European languages such as Polish, Czech, Turkish, Romanian and Hungarian
• Samaritan

It does not include Cyrillic or Greek characters, so it can't set Russian, Ukrainian or Greek text.

Can I use Noto Sans Samaritan commercially?

Yes, it's free for personal and commercial use. Noto Sans Samaritan is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it in logos, websites, apps, videos, printed products and merchandise without paying or asking permission. The one thing you can't do is sell the font file on its own.

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