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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Hello, loyal A.V. Club readers. You might have noticed that these words look a bit different. Maybe you ascribed them to you yourself being transformed, or the larger world. And that may or may not be ...

Glenn Fleishman discusses the subtleties of Roboto, the new font created for Android 4.0. Glenn Fleishman discusses the subtleties of Roboto, the new font created for Android 4.0. Adi Robertson is a ...

You can peek into Android's future now, by installing the new Roboto font featured in Ice Cream Sandwich onto your current phone or tablet. Share on Facebook (opens ...

Google introduced Roboto in 2011 as Android’s new system font and gave it a big upgrade three years later. “Roboto Serif” is now the newest variation “designed to make reading more comfortable at any ...

Today Google announced that it’s opening up its Android font Roboto. Designed by Christian Robinson, the Roboto font files were first released in 2011 under the Apache license. Now, the company is ...

Roboto, the custom-designed font Google introduced in the Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system, is now available for free download for developers, designers and font geeks. Google has released ...