Roboto is a san-serif font created by Christian Robertson and is the font used in the android mobile devices. Robertson, who is the interface designer for google, needed to make a new font for the updated android phones in 2012, with his previous work being the droid font, which was a humanistic style, he went with a neo-grotesque with very few width variations style for the newer version. Google said that the font was “modern, yet approachable, and emotional”, while other receptions describe it more as “clean and modern, but not overly futuristic -- not a science fiction font”. It recently went to an upgrade in 2014 with just mild changes to the glyphs such as shrinking and expanding some spaces, a few curve placements, and geometric changes to the punctuations. Ever since then it has expanded to be used in most if not all of google’s applications such as youtube, google maps, google play, and google search.
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