roboto

Is there a font nerd here who can describe what makes Roboto unique?

The thing most enjoyable about Roboto is how it's changes are a near perfect reflection of Google's design capability.

Consolas and Roboto look nice as well though.

I find myself liking the Roboto typeface more and more...

If Google kept Roboto (and other elements of Android) closed, mobile phone makers would worry that if Google turned evil they could be left with hardware with no operating system.

Roboto Mono - I live in jetbrains product (intellij, pycharm, phpstorm) and the font rendering on Linux is pretty bad yet Roboto Mono actually manages to look good, I'd post a screenshot but I'm away from my machine at the moment.

Compact is far closer to DIN or Roboto (with flattened vertical strokes on glyphs like the uppercase C, D and G), whereas UI is far more rounded, and looks a lot like Helvetica for some glyphs.

I was concerned based on what I'd seen of the typography of the Apple Watch that it'd be too cold and characterless (I really dislike Roboto on Android) to use across OS X and iOS, but by creating this separate UI variant they're able to make it feel like a gradual transition from Helvetica Neue.

Looks like the monospace font on that page is "Roboto Mono", which seems to be new.

I suppose you're talking about the "Roboto" font in #737373.

If anyone here is from the google fonts website, theres a typo in this document: "Bold 8.5/12pt Roboto supports 16 weights as well as advanced typographic features such as smallc aps "

I don't know specifics about this particular typeface (and I haven't been "into fonts" for a while), but Roboto is pretty much another typeface with some Grotesk (e.g.

Roboto does have the crossed zeroes, but it seems a bit less crisp than Droid Sans to me.

And by open sourcing Roboto, the world's font enthusiasts get to play with it.

Roboto has already evolved considerably within Google, and it's likely that this process will be accelerated with a wider set of participants.