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Roboto Condensed

Designed by Christian Robertson

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Roboto has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton and the forms are largely geometric. At the same time, the font features friendly and open curves. While some grotesks distort their letterforms to force a rigid rhythm, Roboto doesn’t compromise, allowing letters to be settled into their natural width. This makes for a more natural reading rhythm more commonly found in humanist and serif types.

This is the Condensed family, which can be used alongside the normal Roboto family and the Roboto Slab family.

In August 2023, the family has been upgraded to a variable font.

To contribute, please see github.com/googlefonts/roboto-classic.

Designer

Choosing type

When you have some text, how can you choose a typeface? Many people—professional designers included—go through an app’s font menu until we find one we like. But the aim of this Google Fonts Knowledge module is to show that there are many considerations that can improve our type choices. By setting some useful constraints to aid our type selection, we can also develop a critical eye for analyzing type along the way.

Roboto Condensed - Google Fonts