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Bolding text set in Noto Sans regular sets the text to Noto Sans Display Bold

  • July 15, 2025
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Dan_Dineen

Does anyone have any idea why the default bold variant for Noto Sans seems to be the ‘Display bold’ and not just ‘Bold’?

I can’t find a distinct ‘display bold’ font variant installed on my Mac and it doesn’t seem to be present as a selectable weight when I create a new text box and start typing - I just get ‘Regular’, ‘Bold’ etc. However, if I select some existing text set in Noto Sans and hit `command + B` I end up with the condensed, taller display weight variant.  

I genuinely have no idea where the display weights are coming from or how to turn them off. Does anyone have any idea? It is driving me a little crazy 😳

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    Jenil_Gogari
    • Jenil_Gogari
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    • August 5, 2025

    We have been facing this issue at Datadog for year now, Figma support has not been helpful and suggest we upload a custom font called “Noto Sans Datadog” to solve this, definitely not the most straightforward solution and not a feature of their product but a bug that they deny to fix.

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