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Sweet!

I'm making an android game and UTF8 emojis are great for UI icons. I'm currently using the Google Noto one but it's certainly not usable in games.

I'm waiting for Godot 4 to allow me to display android native emojis from the system font, but I'm not sure yet it will really work.

I now want to try if I can use this font for my icons, as long as godot allows me to load a font and pick UTF8 character by their codepoint.

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Why is noto a no-go for games? License?

Noto uses Apache-2.0 [1] which should be fine for most stuff.

[1]: https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-emoji/blob/main/LICENSE

So does that mean I can publish a game using those icons, and earn money with micro transactions?

Yes, under certain conditions. In particular pay attention to the requirements for redistribution under clause 4 and the lack of trademark license specified in clause 6.

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