Google open-sources new font Roboto-serif, a variant of the Android system font

On February 16, Google launched a new open source font Roboto-serif, which is designed to make reading in any format (digital format, printed format) more comfortable and focuses on maintaining the same display effect on devices of different sizes. It is a member of Google's Roboto superfamily font family.

Google introduced Roboto as the new system font for Android in 2011. Over time, the number of Roboto variants increased, forming the Roboto superfamily, which includes Roboto Sans, Mono, Slab, and Condensed.

Roboto-serif is the newest member of this font family. As a variable font, Roboto-serif has four property values:

• Weight: 100–900
• Width: condensed, regular, extended
• Optical size: with or without size, 8–144
• Grade: -50–100

The official introduction is as follows:

Roboto Serif is a variable font family designed to create a comfortable, frictionless reading experience. It is minimal and powerful, and is useful everywhere (even for application interfaces) thanks to its wide range of weights and widths across a wide range of optical sizes. While it has been carefully designed to work well in digital media, it is equally comfortable to read and work in print media across all the range of sizes and resolutions we have today.

This font is open source based on the OFL (Open Font License) license and can be previewed or downloaded on the Google Fonts website.

“You are free to use them in your products and projects – print or digital, commercial or otherwise.”

Judging from its GitHub repository activity, Roboto Serif appears to have been completed last year, but was not released until February of this year.

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