Google has just announced Roboto Serif, a new variant of its popular font family.
Its objective: to appease users’ online reading by allowing the font to adapt to any type of screen.
A font to improve reading comfort
Roboto is getting a makeover and for good reason. Eleven years after presenting his new make Android to the general public, Google unveils Roboto Serif, a font mixing Sans-Serif and Serif in a single design. A mix that is far from trivial since each of these types of writing improves reading comfort in its own way.
Serif fonts have long been considered more pleasant to read, in particular thanks to the “extensions” at the end of characters which make it possible to distinguish letters better and to identify words more quickly. The downside is that they take up more space than sans serif fonts and make sentences appear longer than they are.
It is on this point that Google has taken particular care, since Roboto Serif automatically modifies and optimizes the shapes of letters according to the size of the screen. What make reading articles, news and other voluminous texts much more pleasant. Roboto Serif is already downloadable from Google Fonts.
Source: Neowin
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