diff --git a/media-fonts/noto/noto-20160613.recipe b/media-fonts/noto/noto-20160613.recipe
index 816945f3f..0421a3874 100644
--- a/media-fonts/noto/noto-20160613.recipe
+++ b/media-fonts/noto/noto-20160613.recipe
@@ -1,21 +1,32 @@
 SUMMARY="The Noto font"
-DESCRIPTION="Noto's goal is providing a beautiful reading experience for everyone \
-and for all languages. With visual harmony when multiple languages share a page. With \
-multiple styles and weights. Freely available to all."
+DESCRIPTION="The Noto fonts have superseded the Droid fonts, which were \
+originally designed for the use in Google's Android. Noto's aim is to be a \
+free for everyone, with beautiful glyphs for all languages, looking good \
+especially when multiple styles and weights and even languages are mixed on \
+a page.
+
+This package contains the 'sans-serif' and 'serif' typefaces in various \
+styles, as well as a 'monospaced' version."
 
 SUMMARY_chroscore="The Noto font (Chrome OS core font)"
-DESCRIPTION_chroscore="Noto's goal is providing a beautiful reading experience for everyone \
-and for all languages. With visual harmony when multiple languages share a page. With \
-multiple styles and weights. Freely available to all.
+DESCRIPTION_chroscore="The Noto fonts have superseded the Droid fonts, which \
+were originally designed for the use in Google's Android. Noto's aim is to be \
+a free for everyone, with beautiful glyphs for all languages, looking good \
+especially when multiple styles and weights and even languages are mixed on \
+a page.
 
-This package contains the Chrome OS core fonts: Arimo, Cousine and Tinos"
+This package contains the Chrome OS core fonts: Arimo and Cousine have a \
+'sans-serif' typeface, Tinos is a 'serif' font."
 
 SUMMARY_regional="The Noto font (special language/region version)"
-DESCRIPTION_regional="Noto's goal is providing a beautiful reading experience for everyone \
-and for all languages. With visual harmony when multiple languages share a page. With \
-multiple styles and weights. Freely available to all.
+DESCRIPTION_regional="The Noto fonts have superseded the Droid fonts, which were \
+originally designed for the use in Google's Android. Noto's aim is to be a \
+free for everyone, with beautiful glyphs for all languages, looking good \
+especially when multiple styles and weights and even languages are mixed on \
+a page.
 
-This package contains the Noto fonts for:
+This package contains the Noto fonts ('sans-serif' and where applicable \
+'serif') for:
 
 Arabic, Armenian
 Bengali
@@ -70,6 +81,7 @@ INSTALL()
 	FONTDIR=$fontsDir/ttfonts
 	mkdir -p ${FONTDIR}
 
+	rm hinted/*UI-*.ttf			# remove unneeded UI versions
 	cp hinted/*.ttf ${FONTDIR}
 	
 	packageEntries chroscore \
diff --git a/media-fonts/noto_sans_cjk/noto_sans_cjk-1.004.recipe b/media-fonts/noto_sans_cjk/noto_sans_cjk-1.004.recipe
index 5f4e596b8..2d04bbc0b 100644
--- a/media-fonts/noto_sans_cjk/noto_sans_cjk-1.004.recipe
+++ b/media-fonts/noto_sans_cjk/noto_sans_cjk-1.004.recipe
@@ -1,16 +1,21 @@
-SUMMARY="The Noto font for CJK languages (default Japanese)"
+SUMMARY="The Noto font for CJK languages"
+SUMMARY_jp="The Noto font for CJK languages (default Japanese)"
 SUMMARY_kr="The Noto font for CJK languages (default Korean)"
 SUMMARY_sc="The Noto font for CJK languages (default Simple Chinese)"
 SUMMARY_tc="The Noto font for CJK languages (default Traditional Chinese)"
-DESCRIPTION="Noto's goal is providing a beautiful reading experience for \
-everyone and for all languages. With visual harmony when multiple languages \
-share a page. With multiple styles and weights. Freely available to all.
+DESCRIPTION="The Noto fonts have superseded the Droid fonts, which were \
+originally designed for the use in Google's Android. Noto's aim is to be a \
+free for everyone, with beautiful glyphs for all languages, looking good \
+especially when multiple styles and weights and even languages are mixed on \
+a page.
 
-This package supports Japanese, Korean and simple/traditional Chinese."
+This package supports Japanese, Korean and simple/traditional Chinese.
+Included are various weights and two 'monospaced' typefaces ('regular' and \
+'bold')."
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.google.com/get/noto/"
 COPYRIGHT="2012 Google Inc."
 LICENSE="SIL Open Font License v1.1"
-REVISION="1"
+REVISION="2"
 baseURL="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/googlei18n/noto-cjk"
 srcGitRev="f36eda03dfa5582a6d49abbfb5c83d0209584158"
 # Japanese
@@ -95,11 +100,18 @@ SOURCE_DIR=""
 ARCHITECTURES="any"
 DISABLE_SOURCE_PACKAGE=yes
 
+# noto_sans_cjk-$portVersion-any.hpkg is intentionally empty and can be removed.
+
 PROVIDES="
-	noto_sans_cjk=$portVersion	# Japanese default
+	noto_sans_cjk=$portVersion	# empty. ToDo: prevent creating empty hpkg
 	"
 REQUIRES=""
 
+PROVIDES_jp="
+	noto_sans_cjk_jp=$portVersion	# Japanese default
+	"
+REQUIRES_jp=""
+
 PROVIDES_kr="
 	noto_sans_cjk_kr=$portVersion	# Korean default
 	"
@@ -130,6 +142,9 @@ INSTALL()
 
 	cp ../sources*/*.otf ${FONTDIR}
 
+	packageEntries jp \
+		${FONTDIR}/*CJKjp*.otf
+
 	packageEntries kr \
 		${FONTDIR}/*CJKkr*.otf