no full/ for Sans Mono · Issue #471 · notofonts/latin-greek-cyrillic · GitHub
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Serif does not have a full build. Sans has a full build for messy historic reasons.
Once upon a time when Google Docs/Workspace was young, they requested
Noto Sans but they also wanted it to work seamlessly with documents in
Hindi without people needing to change fonts, so they asked for the
version of Noto Sans in Google Fonts to contain a Devanagari glyphset.
Now Workspace's support for other languages is better but once you've
released a font with some glyphs in it, documents will break if you
take them out, so it's got to stay. So for the exceptional case of Noto
Sans, "full"/"googlefonts" builds mean "we added a Devanagari core".