While fonts in XML is part of Android O, it will also work on devices running Android API 14 or higher (Android 4.0+) with Support Library 26.

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 ...

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.

Before you submit another resume, make sure you’re using one of these recruiter-approved fonts. Julia Gaynor, Monster staff Recruiters take six seconds to decide whether or not to toss your ...

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 ...

Roboto tends to be Google’s font of choice across many of its services and software, but some of the company’s websites—like YouTube—use the more common and standard Arial by default.

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 ...

To introduce the new font, Google has published a lengthy PDF introducing Roboto Serif. The PDF covers the design process behind the font and provides plenty of example uses for it, like ...

Courier 12 is the Type-O blood of fonts—works just as good for a N.Y. Times op-ed as a screenplay or a short story. Not only is it the easiest to convert, it’s the least pretentious, ...