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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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Where to find symbols used in font?

So I'm working on a project where we use a symbol in our text and I'd like to extract it in high quality (or in vector graphic) from the font or wherever it resides... The problem is the pencil looks different depending on where it shows up.…
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Firefox an IE renders fonts badly, eg Roboto font

I use angular material design and so I have Roboto font in it. Aclually there are some other fonts but they have same issues. Roboto font looks like below in Firefox and IE(left) and Chrome(right): Why looks nice in Chrome but have that strange…
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Roboto Condensed google font not rendering correctly in Firefox

Yesterday a colleague of mine noticed a big inconsistency between the rendering of the google Roboto Condensed font on our site, when displaying on Firefox and Chrome. On Firefox the font doesn't seem to be the same at all. I did some reading here…
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Wc3 error: certificate invalid (google api): severe: prevents page rendering - what to do?

Website development: desired a universal font - chose to link to google online font resource (rightly or wrongly). Tested doc in W3C mobileOK Checker.... it listed: Invalid certificates will be rejected by mobile browsers, de facto preventing the…
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Android TextView custom typeset causes gravity to stop working

Update This only appears to be happening with Roboto-Italic.ttf. If you're running into this issue, try another font family. I'm running into an odd issue when applying a typeset to a TextView. The app name, "Contact" is in a LinearLayout with…
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google font Roboto, difference between Firefox and Chrome, ONLY MY PC

Using a Windows operating system, ONLY ON MY PC you see the difference? (see photo) Google Chrome is the same character on Roboto Roboto Condensed. Why? I do not understand. ONLY PROBLEM ON MY PC FIXED ONLY ON CHROME
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Microsoft Edge won't render the correct font

On all~~ websites, elements that with Roboto as font-family will instead render a courier-like font with missing special characters like ã or ç. Inspecting one of the elements, it shows both in the Styles and the Computed subtabs: font-family:…
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Why when I use custom Material 3 ThemeData for my widget like ElevatedButton, it displays font family Roboto-regular weight 500 instead Roboto?

Why when I use custom Material 3 ThemeData - main color is green- for my widget like ElevatedButton, it displays font family Roboto-regular weight 500 instead Roboto as default-Material 3 in system - main color is purple. I have two question? Why…
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Properly embedding font in PDF using PDFBox 3.0.0.alpha3 and incremental saving

I am using PDFBox 3.0.0.alpha3 to manipulate a PDF file and add text with the Roboto font and saving incrementally. The font is properly displayed when installed on Windows, but when opened on a different machine without the font installed, the…
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Removing non-used default font from flutter projects

If I prefer to use only custom or google fonts in my Flutter project, will my build still include default ones? (Roboto, SF, etc). My concern is just about decreasing output size.
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flutter: Failed to load font Roboto at https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/roboto/v20/KFOmCnqEu92Fr1Me5WZLCzYlKw.ttf

I have updated my Android Studio to Android Studio Electric Eel | 2022.1.1 Patch 1. While trying to run my Flutter starter app on Chrome web I got a blank web page with this error.
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Gmailapp (and/or Gmail?) doesn't show Roboto Light

I've recently been put into a position to handle communication for an organization, of which the global federation uses "Roboto Light" as brand font. Coincidentally, my employer uses the same font as brand font, so I had it installed on my laptop…
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Do I really need to load Roboto font when using MUI?

I can see from the Material UI documentation that the user is responsible for loading the Roboto font : Material UI is designed to use the Roboto font by default. You may add it to your project with npm or yarn via Fontsource, or with the Google…
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Roboto Italic Font is not working in Gmail for HTML Newsletters

I am facing a weird problem with Roboto Italic Font, it is not working when the Newsletters are opened up in Gmail. I am sharing the screenshot below to better understand the issue: In the above screenshot, you can see the font is not working for…
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When implementing localization in a WPF application, how would I know if Roboto would not be compatible with the language?

I have a WPF application that uses the Roboto FontFamily as the primary font, but there may be languages that are not compatible with Roboto (i.e. Chinese). How can I programmatically determine if the language is not compatible with Roboto so that I…
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