The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
Free font
Roboto
A free alternative to DIN.
About Roboto
- Designer
- Christian Robertson (Google)
- Released
- 2011
- Available at
- Google Fonts →
- Featured on
- 3 paid font pages
Roboto is also a free alternative to…
- DIN → Largely geometric letterforms with the same clean, easy-to-read engineering DIN provides. The Android system font — vetted at every conceivable size, every conceivable surface, with a permissive open licence.
- Frutiger → Christian Robertson drew Roboto on humanist principles closely related to Frutiger's. Easy to read at any size, friendly without being soft — and battle-tested as the Android system font on every conceivable surface.
- Univers → Drawn on humanist principles closely related to Frutiger's own Univers and Frutiger work. The Android system font — vetted at every size, every conceivable surface; the workhorse pick for cross-platform deployments.
Display + body that work together
Quiet type that does the work
The display sets the register; the body follows through. When both halves of a pair pull in the same direction, the design disappears and the words come forward.
Modern · Editorial Roboto + Crimson Pro
Pages that earn the read
Crisp, even strokes give the display its punch. Quiet serifs underneath stay readable across thousands of words — used together by editors at the kind of paper that still prints corrections.