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Documentation > Improve Noto Guidance

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A user wrote in this query about how Noto has become fragmented in Google Fonts.

We should improve the guidance when the current work to ship Noto is complete.

> I have a question about the different font-weight between fonts in computer to design and web font for R&D to coding, when I download noto font from this web : https://www.google.com/get/noto/#sans-lgc
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> ![screenshot 2018-09-06_15-04-55](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/45176332-82257780-b1c4-11e8-90d0-1aa716e943ac.png)
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> there is a lot of font weight, after I design all my sample, then make the font system,
> then R&D tell me we ca't do that as web font way, cause there only offer regular and bold,
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Sans
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> ![screenshot 2018-09-06_15-13-21 1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/45176334-82be0e00-b1c4-11e8-90c6-55fef835ed74.png)
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> then refer guideline
> https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/guidelines/
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> "It is recommended to use "Noto Sans CJK {JP, KR, SC, TC}" rather than "Noto Sans {JP, KR, SC, TC}", unless space/latency is very restricted. Each of the font families "Noto Sans CJK {JP, KR, SC, TC}" supports all four languages, but has a different default language. "
>
> and this doc
> https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/
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> Noto Sans CJK and Noto Serif CJK comprehensively cover Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean in a unified font family.
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> can I use this web font :
> https://fonts.google.com/earlyaccess
> Noto Sans TC (Chinese Traditional)
>
> ![screenshot 2018-09-06_14-54-56](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/45176336-8487d180-b1c4-11e8-871d-455e83a39841.png)
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> who has 7 font-weight to replace this ?
> https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Noto+Sans
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> ![screenshot 2018-09-06_15-13-21](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/45176339-85b8fe80-b1c4-11e8-9947-24397168a39c.png)
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> thanks for confiom for me,
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> hope we can fix the problem with using this instead and get different font-weight we need.
>
> @import url(//fonts.googleapis.com/earlyaccess/notosanstc.css);

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