Roboto Slab
Roboto with slabs bolted onto the same skeleton, and it behaves like it: the widths, the tall x-height and the flat-sided curves are all inherited, so it sets tighter and more evenly than a slab of this weight usually does. The serifs are cut square at close to stem weight with no bracket at all, which keeps the colour flat down a column. It is the least decorative slab in the archive and the only one anybody should consider for a long text.
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
Style
Weight — 400
Specification
- Designer
- Christian Robertson
- Released
- 2013
- Category
- Serif
- License
- Apache-2.0
- Commercial use
- Allowed
- Good for
- Headlines, Body text, Interfaces, Editorial display
- Weights
- 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
- Styles
- Normal
- Variable
- Yes
- Glyphs
- 1,164
- Languages
- Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek, Vietnamese
- Download size
- 150 KB
Size ladder
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Sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow
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
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 Slab';
/* 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-slab.woff2') format('woff2');
font-weight: 100 900;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: 'Roboto Slab', serif;
}License
Apache-2.0
You may use, modify and redistribute this font, including in commercial work, provided you keep the license and attribution notices with it.
Commercial use allowed
Questions
- Is Roboto Slab free for commercial use?
- Yes. Roboto Slab is released under the Apache License 2.0, 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 Slab in a logo?
- Yes. The licence covers the font software, not the artwork you make with it, so a logo set in Roboto Slab 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. What the licence stops you doing is redistributing the font file itself as a product.
- How do I install Roboto Slab?
- Download the zip and unzip it. On a Mac, select the 1 font file 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 Slab is a variable font: the single file carries 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 Slab that is the regular weight. If that happens, use the Static download on this page instead: it has 9 ordinary files, one per weight, and works everywhere.
- Does Roboto Slab support Turkish?
- Yes. Roboto Slab 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 Slab support Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese?
- Yes. Roboto Slab covers Latin, Latin Extended, Turkish, Cyrillic, Cyrillic Extended, Greek and Vietnamese, across 1,164 glyphs. Anything outside those alphabets is not included — the character map further up this page shows exactly what you get.