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Roboto

Christian Robertson · 2011

Roboto is a functional, open, and pervasive sans-serif typeface family designed by Christian Robertson for Google in 2011. It succeeded by solving a narrow problem well — legibility on early Android screens — then scaled through permissive licensing and platform integration.