The Roboto font first appeared with the release of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich way back when in October 2011, becoming the stock font for Google’s apps. Since then, we’ve seen the Roboto font become the stock typeface for Chrome OS, and now Google’s signature font has become open source.
What do we mean by open source? Well, it means that the Roboto font and everything related to it is now available to tinker with on GitHub. Google has also included a revamped font production toolchain that is completely based on open source software. The Roboto font includes all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters, bringing the number of glyphs provided to more than 40,000. If you’d like to create your own interpretation of the Roboto font, here is its GitHub listing.
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