Support for 42 New Writing Systems!
In the browser Coggle uses the fonts from your computer, and since we support Unicode you can use any language you like, as long as you have a font for it installed. We think it's important that people any where in the world can use Coggle, so Coggle has always been designed to support text in any language.
When you request a download of a PDF or PNG file for your diagram however, that's generated on our servers, not on your computer. This means that Coggle needs a font for the language (or, more technically, the script) you're using to create your diagram!
To support as many languages as possible we use Google's Noto fonts, which are a library of high quality fonts aiming to provide coverage of all spoken (and many ancient) languages. We've just updated our font support to cover the almost complete range of scripts included in the Noto project, including 42 additional scripts that we didn't support before.
We've added new fonts for: Urdu, Adlam, Balinese, Bamum, Batak, Buginese, Buhid, Chakma, Cham, Cypriot, Gothic, Gurmukhi, InscriptionalPahlavi, InscriptionalParthian, Javanese, Lepcha, Limbu, LinearB, Malayalam, Mongolian, Myanmar, NewTaiLue, Ogham, OlChiki, OldItalic, Oriya, Osage, PhagsPa, Rejang, Runic, Samaritan, Saurashtra, Sundanese, SylotiNagri, SyriacEastern, SyriacEstrangela, SyriacWestern, Tagbanwa, TaiLe, Thaana, Vai, and Yi
This brings the total list of scripts supported by Coggle to: Latin Languages (English, Spanish etc.), Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Urdu, Adlam, Armenian, Avestan, Balinese, Bamum, Batak, Bengali, Brahmi, Buginese, Buhid, Canadian Aboriginal, Carian, Chakma, Cham, Cherokee, Coptic, Cypriot, Deseret, Devanagari, Ethiopic, Georgian, Glagolitic, Gothic, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Hanunoo, Hebrew, Imperial Aramaic, Inscriptional Pahlavi, Inscriptional Parthian, Javanese, Kaithi, Kannada, Kayah Li, Kharoshthi, Khmer, Lao, Lepcha, Limbu, Linear B, Lisu, Lycian, Lydian, Malayalam, Mandaic, Meetei Mayek, Mongolian, Mono, Myanmar, N'Ko, New Tai Lue, Ogham, Ol Chiki, Old Italic, Old Persian, Old South Arabian, Old Turkic, Oriya, Osage, Osmanya, Phags Pa, Phoenician, Rejang, Runic, Samaritan, Saurashtra, Shavian, Sinhala, Sundanese, Syloti Nagri, Symbols, Syriac Eastern, Syriac Estrangela, Syriac Western, Tagalog, Tagbanwa, Tai Le, Tai Tham, Tai Viet, Tamil, Telugu, Thaana, Thai, Tibetan, Tifinagh, Ugaritic, Vai, and finally, Yi.
Which we think is pretty impressive!
We know people all over the world use Coggle, and we think mind mapping is a great tool to use in every language, so we try to support every writing script that we can.
If you have any feedback about the fonts we use for your native language that's always really helpful for us, as we're only familiar with a small number of them!
Posted by James, Feb 2020.
