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roboto is a Google font family.

Roboto is a Google font family.

Roboto has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton and the forms are largely geometric. At the same time, the font features friendly and open curves.

Roboto has been the standard typeface on Android. Since Froyo, Noto has been the standard typeface on Android for all languages not covered by Roboto. Noto is also the standard typeface for all languages on Chrome OS.

Google recommends using Roboto for languages that use the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts and Noto for all other languages.

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As the Roboto font family is updated, do its metrics ever change?

As pointed out here and here, Google updates the Roboto font periodically to respond to criticism, add glyphs, improve legibility, and so on. Are the metrics locked? Do any of these changes cause text to flow differently? In other words, can an…
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font roboto doesn't work

I am trying to add the roboto-regular and roboto-light but it doesn't seem to work, i don't now how to do it so I'm asking for guidance... This is a link to my code https://jsfiddle.net/omer1234/rmje7xz3/12/ HTML:
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Font-variant: small-caps rendered wrong for Roboto Condensed in Firefox only

I am trying to force small-caps effect on my company's website and everything works great except in Firefox (nevermind version). Firefox renders Roboto and any other font properly - no problems with language-specific characters as long as font…
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How to have roboto font in bookdown::pdf_document2?

Anyone suggestions on how to get roboto font in bookdown::pdf_document2? The code below works fine, when I change the font to Roboto it does not, see also picture. The Roboto and the Comic Sans MS font are in my c:\Windows\Fonts, I use Miktex for…
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Convert local font to Google Fonts CDN

I have a bunch of Robot fonts on my website. I want to use Google fonts CDN instead of it just for performance issues. there is an issue that I have when I put google CDN url in url("@import…
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CSS - Roboto Font discrepancy in Chrome and Firefox

I have created a button and have used Roboto fonts. While testing on various browsers (chrome and firefox), I have noticed that the text appears to be different. The problem occurs when I use font-weight: bold. CHROME: This is what the font looks…
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WPF - Problem accessing Roboto fonts by font name

I have downloaded the Roboto font from dafunt.com. In my application, I require to use three Roboto-fonts: Roboto Bold Roboto Medium Roboto Regular But I have trouble identifying how to access the correct font by its font name in my…
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Can not figure out where these google web fonts are coming from

I'm trying to optimize my website with different kind of tools such as Yellow Lab Tools and GTmetrix, and when I was checking what web fonts are loaded in the top page, I found these two web fonts links that I do not…
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Roboto with 14px results in different sizes chrome/firefox

I discovered a strange sizing phenomenon. The element in the following snippet results in different height with Chrome and Firefox only with font-family:Roboto and font-size:14px. When I set the font-size to 15px or use a different font,…
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Roboto supporting capital sharp s (ẞ)

According to this article, the german capital sharp s (ẞ) is official. (https://medium.com/@typefacts/the-german-capital-letter-eszett-e0936c1388f8) Google's Roboto for Android is already supporting the…
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Using Roboto in offline app

I have a Cordova/Angular2 app, based on angular-cli, also using Material Design. I note that when I build I get files in my dist directory such as roboto-v15-latin-regular.eot roboto-v15-latin-regular.svg roboto-v15-latin-regular.ttf …
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Codename One : Text not showing using Roboto or Keep Calm Medium font on iOS

I am using different fonts in my Codename One app. If I include and use Roboto-Bold.ttf or Oswald font from Google fonts or Keep Calm Medium from dafont.com the text is displayed on Android and Codename One Simulator (as reported on this SO…
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html2pdf AddFont Roboto does not work

Hy there, I'm using html2pdf v3 to create a PDF. That works pretty good. But now I wanted to use Google Fonts inside the PDF. So I downloaded Roboto-Regular.ttf and renamed it to roboto.ttf. Then I converted it to .php and .z (Encoding: cp1252):…
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Bug with Roboto font and break-word (on desktop Chrome)

It seems like a particular bug of desktop Chrome and Roboto font. I've detected this issue on desktop: beta Chrome version 51 Chrome 53 (canary) And the problem is, when I have div (see css below) with lowercase rt it displays in a very strange…
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Roboto Condensed google font falls back in all browsers

I have several google fonts which I import into stylesheet with using @import rule. All of them render fine except of Roboto Condensed. It falls back to default sans-serif font, in my case Helvetica. @import…
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