In the digital age, the printing press has largely gone the way of Dodo, but we still treat the design of typefaces as being as permanent as if it was made up of centuries-old metal blocks. You just ...

Google's Matias Duarte says Android's new system font should help loosen up its techie image. Too bad about the name. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

Google just announced that it’s making Roboto, its signature font used in Android and across other Google products, open source for all. The font files for the Roboto family of fonts were first ...

Droid is a great font family which served Android well over the years, but it was designed and optimized for screens that were much lower in pixel density than today’s HD displays. To be legible at ...

Today's Ice Cream Sandwich announcement yielded a number of exciting enhancements, but not quite as distinctive as the new font Roboto. Indeed during the keynote, the presenter spent an inordinate ...

In context: The Roboto typeface was developed by Google to become the default font on the Android operating system, and later some of its most popular services like YouTube. The company recently ...

Android’s new font Roboto has drawn its share of critics and and fans, but if you want to get an in-depth look at it for yourself, you can download it on Android’s developer design guidelines website.

During last night’s Ice Cream Sandwich event, a new font was introduced into the lives of tech geeks everywhere. Roboto is what Google wants to call it. Supposedly built with the mindset of being ...

Little bits and pieces of the Android L software have been seeping out for use and install on other devices since the preview was made available to users. One of those things is the new Roboto font ...

As someone who is really into fonts, I know that most people don’t share my passion — but I genuinely think that anyone who cares at all about typography will have some interest in what Google ...