Google introduces new version of Roboto font
Google latest in-house font is called Roboto Serif, designed to create a more readable serif companion to its Roboto Sans typeface.
Roboto Serif is a variable typeface family designed to create a comfortable and frictionless reading experience. Minimal and highly functional, it is useful anywhere (even for app interfaces) due to the extensive set of weights and widths across a broad range of optical sizes. While it was carefully crafted to work well in digital media, across the full scope of sizes and resolutions we have today, it is just as comfortable to read and work in print media.
The World Wide Web first started out with a measly collection of just 11 core fonts meant to make things as legible as possible on those low-res screens of yesteryears, but these days, virtually all websites and brands can choose whatever font they want to and that they feel is the best for both legibility and identity, with some even creating new typefaces of their own. As such, Google has just introduced a brand-new font to its family — meet Roboto Serif
Roboto Serif joins the other four fonts in the company’s growing lineup, Roboto Sans, Mono, Slab, and Condensed. It’s Google’s first serif font — one of those with those little lines and strokes attached to letters or symbols, like you know from good old Times New Roman. In contrast to classic serif fonts, Google wants things to be minimalistic, though, “with just a ‘whisper’ of a serif,” playing right into the company’s heritage as an internet-first business.
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