Roboto
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| Category | Sans-serif |
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| Classification | Neo-grotesque |
| Designer(s) | Christian Robertson |
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| Date created | 2011 |
| Date released | 2015 |
| License | Apache License |
| Latest release version | 2.001047;2015 |
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| Category | Serif |
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| Classification | Slab Serif |
| Designer(s) | Christian Robertson |
| Commissioned by | |
| Date released | March 2013 |
| Latest release version | 1.100263 |
Roboto is a neo-grotesque sans-serif typeface family developed by Google as the system font for its mobile operating system Android.
Google describes the font as "modern, yet approachable" and "emotional". The entire font family has been licensed under the Apache license and was officially made available for free download on January 12, 2012, on the newly launched Android Design website. It belongs to the neo-grotesque genre of sans-serif typefaces, and includes Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold and Black weights with matching oblique styles. It also includes condensed styles in Light, Regular and Bold, also with matching oblique designs.
Roboto supports Latin, Greek (partial) and Cyrillic scripts. On Android, the Noto font is used for languages not covered by Roboto, including Chinese (simplified and traditional), Japanese, Korean, Thai and Hindi.
The font was designed entirely in-house at Google by Christian Robertson, an interface designer for Google, who previously had released an expanded Ubuntu-Title font through his personal type foundry Betatype. It was released for the first time in 2011 with Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich". Compared to Android's previous system font, the humanist sans-serif design Droid, it adopts a more stark grotesque design with oblique styles rather than true italics, and a wider range of weights.
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