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Curt:
New York Magazine has an article by a Kevin Roose, named "Google Is Designing the Font of the Future". It's quite interesting, but too long to merely copy & paste - so you will have to go yourself to read it:

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/google-is-designing-the-font-of-the-future.html

Google Is Designing the Font of the Future.
It's called "Roboto," and it works on everything.-nymag
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http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2014/07/google-is-designing-the-font-of-the-future.html

tomos:
always enjoy reading about / looking at fonts :up:


The thread title made me think of a slimmed down version...

"Google, designing the future"

40hz:
I love typography. :-*

That said, anything that increases readability is laudable in my book.

Some of the aesthetes and designers may be offended by placing readability ahead of art - or not paying sufficient homage to long tradition and those children of lesser gods who design typefaces. It's true that beauty and readability aren't mutually exclusive goals. But when push comes to shove, letters and text are meant to be read. Everything else comes second to that.

Unfortunately, there's a growing tendency on the part of some designers (many of which don't - or won't read ) to see type as "just another graphic element." Which is a perfect example of the tail wagging the dog.

IMHO, if Droid was anything to go by, I welcome Google's latest foray into type design. My only question is: where I can download it? :Thmbsup:


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You can download it here.

Deozaan:
You can download it here.
-40hz (July 17, 2014, 11:08 AM)
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Wha? What does Stephen Elop, Microsoft, or Nokia have to do with Google or the Roboto font?

I thought this thread was about Roboto, which can be downloaded here. (Click the down arrow in the top right corner for download options.)

EDIT: You can also get access to all the Google Web Fonts (and sources) here: https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/

40hz:
Wha? What does Stephen Elop, Microsoft, or Nokia have to do with Google or the Roboto font?
-Deozaan (July 17, 2014, 11:32 AM)
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Absolutely nothing. It's obviously a bad link I had that is now corrected. Thx. ;)

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