Roboto
Roboto has been the Android system font since 2011, which makes it one of the most-read typefaces ever drawn and is also why it feels like no typeface at all — you have read millions of words in it without once noticing it. Its skeleton is mechanical and largely geometric, but the curves are open and unforced, and where a strict grotesque squeezes every letter into a rigid rhythm Roboto lets each one settle at its natural width. The variable file carries a width axis as well as weight, so what used to be a separate Roboto Condensed download is now this same file pulled in to 75 percent.
Alphabets
- Latin
- Latin Extendedaccented characters for most European languages
- Turkishincluding ı, İ, ğ, ş and the rest
- Cyrillic
- Cyrillic Extended
- Greek
- Vietnamesethe full set of stacked accents
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Foundry
- Released
- Category
- License
- Commercial use
- Good for
- Weights
- Styles
- Variable
- Glyphs
- Languages
- Download size
- Source
Size ladder
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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
Characters
Uppercase
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- X
- Y
- Z
Lowercase
- a
- b
- c
- d
- e
- f
- g
- h
- i
- j
- k
- l
- m
- n
- o
- p
- q
- r
- s
- t
- u
- v
- w
- x
- y
- z
Numerals
- 0
- 1
- 2
- 3
- 4
- 5
- 6
- 7
- 8
- 9
Punctuation & symbols
- .
- ,
- :
- ;
- !
- ?
- '
- "
- ‘
- ’
- “
- ”
- (
- )
- [
- ]
- {
- }
- /
- \
- |
- -
- –
- —
- _
- @
- #
- $
- %
- &
- *
- +
- =
- <
- >
- ~
- ^
- `
- €
- £
- ¥
- ©
- ®
- °
- §
- †
- •
- …
Use it on the web
@font-face {
font-family: 'Roboto';
/* The download contains .ttf files. Put yours wherever you serve static
files from and point this at it. Converting to .woff2 first cuts the
size by roughly 60% and every current browser supports it. */
src: url('/fonts/roboto.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}License
OFL-1.1
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work. You may not sell the font file on its own, and any modified version must be released under the same license and under a different name.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Roboto free for commercial use?
- Yes. Roboto is released under the SIL Open Font License 1.1, which allows commercial use with no fee and no attribution requirement. You can use it in client work, in products you sell, on the web and in print. The one thing you may not do is sell the font file on its own. The licence is inside the download.
- Can I use Roboto in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Roboto belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Christian Robertson, ParaType, Font Bureau. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Roboto?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 2 font files inside and open them, then press Install Font. On Windows, select them, right-click and choose Install. Restart any application that was already open before it will show up. Roboto is a variable font: those files carry all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — only reads the first weight and will show it as Regular. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 54 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Roboto support Turkish?
- Yes. Roboto includes the characters Turkish needs that plain Latin does not — the dotless ı, the dotted İ, and ğ, ş, ü, ö and ç in both cases. This was checked against the font file itself, not assumed from the fact that it covers Latin.
- Does Roboto support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Roboto covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese, across 1,326 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.
- Do I need to download Roboto Condensed separately?
- Not if your software reads variable fonts. The Roboto file here carries a width axis running from 100 percent down to 75 percent alongside its weight axis, and 75 percent is what used to ship as the separate Roboto Condensed family. In Figma, Illustrator, InDesign or on the web you set the width you want and the file draws it. In Word, Canva or Photoshop before 2018 you will only get the standard width, because those read one fixed instance and ignore the axes — there the separate Condensed family is still the way to get it.