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Problems of Google Noto CJK Fonts
Other languges: 中文
Google Noto is one of the largest font sets, which contains sans serif fonts of all languages. Simple Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean fonts are beautiful, and have 7 types of font weight: demi-light, light, thin, regular, medium, semibold, black.
But Google Noto CJK fonts are not perfect, if you have a 14 inch, 1366x768px screen and use KDE. KDE default font size is 9pt to display fonts, about 12 px in regular desktop and laptop screen. Conversion Chart In this font size, most characters of Noto Sans CJK fonts cannot display clearly.
You can change KDE font setting to a bigger size: 11pt is good enough.
If you are using GNOME, do not worry about it. GNOME default font size is big enough for Noto Sans CJK fonts.
If you have a high-dpi screen, 9 pt equals 24px or bigger, it is perfect too. Nono Sans CJK fonts seem sharp and clear.
According to some user reports, KDE 4 with Noto Sans CJK fonts cannot show UI components in correct size. Some of buttons will be too small to contain text.
This might be caused by font height calculating. Noto Sans CJK fonts are usually heigher than other fonts and font baseline are also higher. Try to use Noto Sans + Noto Sans CJK as sans serif font. Don't mix with other fonts.
Similar problem happens to Konsole and KWrite, caret doesn't follow text correctly and show before or behand text editing position.
To solve this issue, you can change monospace font to other fonts, like DejaVu Sans, Droid Sans.