Google introduced the Roboto font nearly four years ago as part of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. Since then, it's grown to be the default for Android and Chrome OS, and it's a big part of Google's overall Material Design language that we're seeing spread across many of its web services (like Inbox and Google Play Music) as well. Google released the font to the public not long afterwards, but today the company's taking things a step further and making the font open source — everything related to Roboto is now up on GitHub, including a "revamped font production toolchain" that was used to create the font in the first place.
It's an interesting move for Google — the company freely admits in its blog post announcing the release that...
Google's Roboto font for Android and Chrome is now open source
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