![]() You never know which personality you’ll get.įor now, I can only speculate on how this beast came to be. When an alphabet has such unrelated glyphs it can taste completely different depending on the word. The crime is in the way they were combined: grabbing ideas from the Grotesk model, along with a Univers-inspired ‘a’ and ‘G’, welding them to letters from the Humanist model, and then bolting on three straight-sided caps à la DIN. There’s nothing wrong with combining elements of these two styles to create something new. Its parents are a Grotesk sans (like a slightly condensed Helvetica) and a Humanist sans (like Frutiger or Myriad). Roboto indeed has a mixed heritage, but that mix doesn’t have anything to do with the gibberish from the press release. I’m all for the strategy of developing a unique identity typeface, and I commend Google for employing type designers in house, but this is an unwieldy mishmash. I know it when I see it because I’ve had to write a few glowing descriptions about typefaces that don’t really glow. At the same time the font’s sweeping semi-circular curves give it a cheerful demeanor.” - GottaBeMobile It has a mechanical skeleton and the forms are largely geometric. ![]() Google describes it has having a “dual nature. It was built from scratch and made specifically for high density displays. Just in time for Halloween, from the depths of the Android 4.0 laboratory emerges a frightening cross-breed creature called Roboto. ![]() Written by Stephen Coles on October 19, 2011
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