Questions tagged [roboto]

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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Hosting Roboto Font in nextjs

I'm trying to host Google Roboto Font in my website. I have inspected the font-family, and the network. I think the font file is hosted and imported successfully. But I'm confused that the "Rendered Fonts" shown below is "PingFang SC". Where it came…
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Unicode playing card symbols not displayed in mobile browser

I have a html page where I want to use playing card symbols. My minimal example 🂡 displays the Ace of Spades in Firefox (92.0) on my desktop PC (Ubuntu 20.04) but an…
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Roboto Flex variable font in greek

I'm searching Roboto Flex with greek characters https://github.com/TypeNetwork/Roboto-Flex Does anybody knows how to find more charsets?
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angular with font module

I want to create a "Sign in with Google" button. For this I installed this module npm i roboto-fontface and added this line in angular.json "styles": [ { "input": "src/theme/variables.scss" }, { …
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Xamarin forms iOS apply same font but different style

I have a xamarin forms app. I want to make use of Roboto Font Family, from Google Fonts. Actually, Roboto Light and Roboto Regular. What's the name for Roboto Light and Roboto Regular for iOS?
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Maltese Cross Unicode not supported for Roboto font in JavaScript

I am trying to generate a PDF file with Maltese Cross and Circle E icons with Unicode U+2720 and U+24BA respectively. The pdf file is generated using pdfMake library for javascript. I am using Roboto which is the default font provided by pdfMake…
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Roboto Font face download only regular fonts

I am using angular 6 material and using "roboto-fontface" dependency. I am using only regular roboto fonts in my app. But its downloading all the regular,medium and bold fonts and its increasing my app size. Is there any way to download only…
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why some thin character roboto ?

ı use "roboto" and "san-serif" ,normal text "A.Ş" error text -->
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Browser loading fonts when I load home page

I am using angular 4 and roboto-fontface. When I load my page downloading fonts in browser. How can I stop downloading the fonts ? Below is my css. main.css @import '../node_modules/roboto-fontface/css/roboto/roboto-fontface.css'; body { …
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Google fonts non-english letters don't use font-weight attribute in safari

I have a problem with "Roboto" font in Safari (at least on ver. 9.0.3). The problem is that non-english letters like "ąčęėįšųūž" don't use font-weight value when I set font-weight below 400 weight. When it's above 400, it works fine. Website in…
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Font appear to be stronger on dark background

I'm trying to get around a irritating issue with fonts. Specific Googles Roboto font. The thing is that the font appear to be stronger (fat) on dark backgrounds in my tests (Chrome 62.0.3202.62 on OSX Sierra 10.12.6) while it play nice on googles…
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Roboto font issues in MFC based application

I have old MFC based application. Recently we moved from Trébuchent to Roboto font. From that time onwards on some machines we are finding weird characters in the application. I am using the CreateFontIndirect function to create the font. The IDE…
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Use roboto font in Yii PDF extension

I am converting a html to pdf using yii pdf extention but i don't want to use system font i wanna use roboto font in my html but can't able to use external file. I just included this google api for roboto font
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Webapp Roboto font anomaly only when live site is viewed from Windows

There's a webapp where we use Roboto font, it's loaded directly from Google: @import url(//fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Roboto:400,100,300,500,700,300italic); The website looks OK when viewing from OSX. The live website doesn't load Roboto…
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IE issue for font-awesome and Roboto not working on Server

I have used yeoman generator for the project structure and included bower components for font-awesome and Roboto. The fonts load fine on grunt serve. I have also tried running the index.html created in the dist folder which again works fine. Even…