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Google has a lot of free fonts on offer, but it's hard to know how they'll look on a website without putting them into HTML code or buying a preview tool. It's now much easier to experiment with ...
Google has announced Roboto Flex, a version of the font that it uses for everything that can be easily customized in a ton of ways. Roboto Flex gives you tons of design options. Skip to main content ...
Google Docs came out 18 years ago—it's old enough to vote—and yet by default it only offers a couple dozen fonts. But it's easy to add more.
A buried feature in Google Fonts, called font effects, is an amazing throwback to the days of Geocities and Microsoft’s infamous WordArt for your modern-day website. You remember what I mean, right?
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 ...
At press time, Google's Noto encompasses 800 languages and 100 written scripts, all in a single typeface. The company has been working on this font for the past 5 years – in relative secret ...
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 ...
Google drove the requirement that the font be open-source (under the Apache 2.0 license); that's the only practical way to make it universally available to developers.