Noto Sans JP does not use local fonts.

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#1,925 opened on Apr 8, 2019 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 1/5
Estimated time: Under an hour
Newbie friendliness: 75/100

Issue type: Bug
Clarity: Clearly specified
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: css
Domain: frontend

Research direction

Start with the Noto Sans JP CSS shown in the issue and inspect its src: local() declarations. Compare the local font names with the linked Google Fonts specimen and update the two outdated name patterns; done means the declarations use Noto Sans JP and NotoSansJP for the relevant weights.

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Description

I API / Website / Platform z_Noto

Please update src: local() as follows

Noto Sans Japanese => Noto Sans JP
NotoSansJapanese => NotoSansJP

Noto Sans JP currently trys to load 'Noto Sans Japanese <fontweight>' and 'NotoSansJapanese-<fontweight>'
https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Noto+Sans+JP

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Noto Sans JP';
  font-style: normal;
  font-weight: 400;
  src: local('Noto Sans Japanese Regular'), local('NotoSansJapanese-Regular'), url(...

But the local font faces are 'Noto Sans JP <fontweight>' and 'NotoSansJP-<fontweight>'

page: https://fonts.google.com/earlyaccess#Noto+Sans+Japanese
DL link: http://fonts.gstatic.com/ea/notosansjapanese/v6/download.zip

page: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Sans+JP?selection.family=Noto+Sans+JP
DL link: https://fonts.google.com/download?family=Noto%20Sans%20JP

"Noto Sans Japanese" is only used for older versions of early access fonts.
DL link: http://fonts.gstatic.com/ea/notosansjapanese/v1/download.zip

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