Roboto
Designed by Christian Robertson, Paratype, Font Bureau
9 weights • Version 50 • On Google Fonts since 2013 • Popularity #1
Quick Summary
18
Styles · incl. italic
100-900
Weight Range
2
Variable axes
9
Languages / Subsets
© 2011 The Roboto Project Authors
The quick brown fox
About Roboto Fonts
Roboto has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton and the forms are largely geometric. At the same time, the font features friendly and open curves. While some grotesks distort their letterforms to force a rigid rhythm, Roboto doesn’t compromise, allowing letters to be settled into their natural width. This makes for a more natural reading rhythm more commonly found in humanist and serif types.
Updated July 2020: Upgraded to a variable font with Weight and Width axes, that closely match the previous static fonts released as two families, this one and a sibling Roboto Condensed family.
Roboto is part of a superfamily set that includes Roboto Slab and Roboto Mono
To report issues or contribute, see github.com/TypeNetwork/Roboto. This repository also contains further font builds for different platforms.
Who Designed Roboto?
Christian Robertson
Font Bureau
Formed in 1989, Font Bureau has been active in the design of typefaces, the development of tools for both type design and typography, and as a consultant in the development of font technology for both operating systems and applications.
Font Bureau’s custom fonts are seen in hundreds of publications world-wide. It’s retail font library is popular among designers of a wide range of projects, and its pioneering work in variable font technology has set examples for both the finessing of typography for better composition, and new levels of expression that type can bring to reinforce user interest in any design.
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