Roboto
Designed by Christian Robertson, Paratype, Font Bureau
Styles
- Thin 100Roboto Text Preview
- Thin 100 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- ExtraLight 200Roboto Text Preview
- ExtraLight 200 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- Light 300Roboto Text Preview
- Light 300 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- Regular 400Roboto Text Preview
- Regular 400 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- Medium 500Roboto Text Preview
- Medium 500 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- SemiBold 600Roboto Text Preview
- SemiBold 600 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- Bold 700Roboto Text Preview
- Bold 700 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- ExtraBold 800Roboto Text Preview
- ExtraBold 800 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
- Black 900Roboto Text Preview
- Black 900 ItalicRoboto Text Preview
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.
Choosing web fonts: A beginner's all-in-one guide
A checklist for choosing type
Emotive considerations for choosing typefaces
Choosing reliable typefaces
Exploring typefaces with multiple weights or grades
Exploring width in type
Choosing typefaces that have optical sizes
Pairing typefaces
Pairing typefaces within a family & superfamily
Pairing typefaces by the same type designer or type foundry
Pairing typefaces using the font matrix
Exploring x-height & the em square
Adding fonts to Google Docs and Slides