Licenses

Roboto Serif

Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz · Commercial Type · 2022 · OFL-1.1 · Variable

Commercial Type drew a serif to sit beside Roboto, and gave it four axes doing it: weight, width from 50 to 150, optical size from 8 to 144 point, and a grade axis that changes how heavy the letters look without changing how much space they take. That last one is the interesting one, because it is what lets an interface get darker on a light background without any text reflowing. Very few free families offer it.

Variable · 4.6 MB · 2 files

All weights in one file, for Figma, Illustrator, InDesign and the web.

Static · 10.8 MB · 90 files

One file per weight, works everywhere including older Word and Photoshop.

The license file is inside both zips.

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Alphabets

Style

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Weight — 400

Specification

Designer
Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz
Foundry
Commercial Type
Released
2022
Category
Serif
License
OFL-1.1
Commercial use
Allowed
Good for
Body text, Long-form reading, Interfaces, Editorial
Weights
100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
Styles
Normal, Italic
Variable
Yes
Glyphs
1,264
Languages
Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese
Download size
4.6 MB
Source
github.com/google/fonts/tree/main/ofl/robotoserif

Size ladder

96

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64

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

40

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

24

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

16

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

12

Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow

Roboto Serif character map

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 Roboto Serif on the web

Self-hosted

You serve the file yourself. Nothing depends on this site staying up, and you get the whole character set — all Latin, Latin Extended, Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese.

@font-face {
  font-family: 'Roboto Serif';
  /* 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-serif.woff2') format('woff2');
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: 'Roboto Serif', serif;
}

Hosted by us

One line, nothing to upload. Put this in your <head>:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://thatsmyfont.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://thatsmyfont.com/fontfiles/roboto-serif.css">

Then use it in your CSS:

body {
  font-family: 'Roboto Serif', serif;
}

One thing to know: the file we host is cut down to Latin characters so pages load quickly. Roboto Serif also covers Türkçe, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Vietnamese, and for those you need the download and the self-hosted route.

Roboto 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

Designed by Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz

Copyright 2020 The Roboto Serif Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/RobotoSerif)

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The license file is included inside the download.

Questions

Is Roboto Serif free for commercial use?
Yes. Roboto Serif 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 Serif in a logo?
Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Roboto Serif belongs to you — including if you later register it as a trademark. You do not need permission and you do not owe anything to Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
How do I install Roboto Serif?
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 Serif is a variable font: those files carry all 9 weights at once. Some older software — Word, Canva, and Photoshop before 2018 — reads only the one weight the file defaults to, and for Roboto Serif that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 90 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
Does Roboto Serif support Turkish?
Yes. Roboto Serif includes the characters Türkçe 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.
What languages does Roboto Serif support?
Yes. Roboto Serif covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended and Vietnamese, across 1,264 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.

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