This is Nowar Sans, font packs for World of Warcraft and WoW Classic that support all client languages. Nowar Sans is based on Noto Sans and Source Han Sans.
Make Love, Not Warcraft.
要有爱，不要魔兽争霸。
要愛，不要魔獸。
Nowar Sans is shipped in 7 weights and several regional variants. More weights (any number from 200 to 900!) can be built form source.
- 300: Light
- 350: SemiLight
- 400: Regular
- 450: Book
- 500: Medium
- 600: SemiBold
- 700: Bold
Bliz and Neut are “standard variants” with regional Chinese character orthographies.
| European and 한국어 | 简体中文 | 繁體中文 | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bliz | Mainland China (UI) | Mainland China | Taiwan | Acts like WoW’s default fallback setting. |
| Neut | Classical (UI) | Mainland China | Taiwan | Prefers classical orthography on fallback. |
CL is the “classical variant” with classical Chinese character orthography (aka Kāngxī Dictionary forms).
| European and 한국어 | 中文 | |
|---|---|---|
| CL | Classical (UI) | Classical |
- European: English, Español (AL), Português, Deutsch, Español (EU), Français, Italiano, and Русский.
- UI: Ambiguous punctations are treated as Western; CJK puctations are half-width.
- Common fonts:
FRIZQT__andARIALN, which are hard-coded in some addons.
CyR (Cyrillic Romanisation), Pinyin and Romaja are “cross-language variants” for PTR realms that transliterate or transcript Cyrillic, Chinese and Hanguel characters to Latin letters.
| Variant | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| CyR | Replace Cyrillic letters with underlined smapp-capital Latin letters, using the ISO 9:1995 (or GOST 2002) system | R̲ᴜ̲s̲s̲ᴋ̲ɪ̲ᴊ̲ (Русский) |
| Pinyin | Append small-capital Hànyǔ Pīnyīn to Chinese characters | 汉ʜᴀ̀ɴ字ᴢɪ̀ |
| Romaja | Append small-capital Romaja to Hanguel characters | 한ʜᴀɴ글ɢᴜᴇʟ |
Due to the technical limitation, the CyR is implemented as feature variant and is applied to all languages (we can not distinguish cyrillic chat font from latin chat font – they are both ARAILN) while Pinyin and Romaja are implemented as regional variant and are applied to non-Chinese or non-Korean languages (applying to native language will heavily break UI layout).
| Variant | Implementation | Applied to |
|---|---|---|
| CyR | Feature variant | All languages |
| Pinyin | Regional variant (based on Neut) | All except 简体中文 and 繁體中文 |
| Romaja | Regional variant (based on Neut) | All except 한국어 |
As a result, the XLang variants can be confusing and thus are distributed under a dedicated tag with an -xlang suffix.
| Distribution | CyR | Pinyin | Romaja |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pinyin,Romaja,CyR | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pinyin,CyR | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Romaja,CyR | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Neut,CyR | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Pinyin,Romaja | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pinyin | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ |
| Romaja | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
Almost same as Nowar Sans, except that required Source Han Sans (subset) files are included, and customized regional variants are not supported.
Latin, Greek and Cyrillic characters are built from Noto Source, the source “code” for Noto Sans by Google.
CJK Ideographs, Kana and Hangul are from Source Han Sans by Adobe.
The traditional Chinese to simplified Chinese conversion table is from Open Chinese Convert project.