# UI Font in Tag Panel

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [May 2, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599 "2019-05-02T15:29:36Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![mikeg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mikeg/32/8853_2.png) [@mikeg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikeg)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599/1 "2019-05-02T15:29:36Z")

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In Ignition 7, the font used in the Tag panel supported a broad set of Unicode characters such that I could display, for example, Chinese text. With Ignition 8, the font does not support these characters, and boxes are displayed instead. This is hampering my testing of UTF / Unicode support for my client’s product. Any way to change the font?

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**Author:** ![paul-griffith](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/paul-griffith/32/37249_2.png) [@paul-griffith](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/paul-griffith)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 3:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599/2 "2019-05-02T15:33:13Z")

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CJK support is opt-in, because the language files are massive - you (currently) have to manually install Google Noto's CJK fonts for things to work properly, but we do want to improve this process in the future:

> [@Chinese characters are displayed as boxes](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/chinese-characters-are-displayed-as-boxes/23947/6):
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> this is expected. If you install the Google Noto CJK fonts on your system they should be visible just fine. We don’t bundle them due to their file size. There is a helpful article [HERE](https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/) about these fonts and CJK. At some point we would like a more graceful way to deploy these fonts from the Gateway but we currently don’t have real support for this. Thanks, Jonathan C

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**Author:** ![mikeg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mikeg/32/8853_2.png) [@mikeg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikeg)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599/3 "2019-05-02T16:00:29Z")

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No joy. Installed all the Noto fonts, and the Chinese text still isn’t showing.

Windows 10 Pro 1809 17763.437 64-bit, if it helps.

 ![fonts](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/6/6d43c3b335eb7024ea95f305cb32a3249bfe67c1.png)  
 ![tags](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/2X/5/5c78bde47976bfc21d10aacdab588f44c897c021.png)

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**Author:** ![mikeg](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/mikeg/32/8853_2.png) [@mikeg](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/mikeg)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 4:01pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599/4 "2019-05-02T16:01:55Z")

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Okay – just dove into other threads and saw all the stuff about installing in JVM files…

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**Author:** ![jcoffman](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/jcoffman/32/6429_2.png) [@jcoffman](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/jcoffman)\
**Post date:** [May 2, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-font-in-tag-panel/24599/5 "2019-05-02T20:33:20Z")

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@mikeg installing the fonts as fallbacks should do the trick here.