“Along with the Material Design guidelines we released a new version of the Roboto type family. A lot of things have changed as we tuned the font to work across more screen sizes and conditions, from ...

In context: The Roboto typeface was developed by Google to become the default font on the Android operating system, and later some of its most popular services like YouTube. The company recently ...

Google has put a lot of emphasis in recent times on the design of Android, particularly around Material Design. Part of the picture is the Roboto family of fonts, and Google has just announced these ...

In the digital age, the printing press has largely gone the way of Dodo, but we still treat the design of typefaces as being as permanent as if it was made up of centuries-old metal blocks. You just ...

It's easy to take fonts for granted, but a huge amount of effort goes into crafting them just-so. A well-designed font is just as readable large as it is small, and the eye should effortlessly be able ...

Google's Matias Duarte says Android's new system font should help loosen up its techie image. Too bad about the name. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Roboto tends to be Google’s font of choice across many of its services and software, but some of the company’s websites—like YouTube—use the more common and standard Arial by default. That doesn’t ...

After years of defaulting to Google’s well-loved Roboto font, it seems the company is preparing to change ChromeOS to use a new default font in most cases. It was once possible to change your ...