Roboto Serif
Designed By
Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz
18 Styles Serif
The pleasure
of a well-set
page.
Roboto Serif · Regular
Compare this serif family in headings and a continuous reading sample.
18 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.
Download Roboto Serif ↓TTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1
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A Page In Roboto Serif
Roboto Serif · Regular
Headings, labels and running text.
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.
A heading marks the next chapter. The margins leave room for a note while the text continues across the page.
18 Styles,
One Family
Every available style is shown below in its own font file.
Thin100
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Thin Italic100
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Extra Light200
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Extra Light Italic200
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Light300
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Light Italic300
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Regular400
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Italic400
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Medium500
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Medium Italic500
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Semi Bold600
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Semi Bold Italic600
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Bold700
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Bold Italic700
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Extra Bold800
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Extra Bold Italic800
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Black900
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Black Italic900
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Georgia was one of the first serifs drawn to make reading easier on the coarse screens of its day, and it was among the original Core Fonts for the Web. Google’s article introducing Roboto Serif starts there, and the comparison is fair: this is a serif for reading comfortably on today’s screens that is equally at home in print.
Greg Gazdowicz drew it at Commercial Type as the serif member of the Roboto superfamily, minimal and functional enough that Google suggests it even for app interfaces. The full design is variable across weight, width and optical size. Here you get 18 static styles, Thin through Black, each with its italic.
It is a broad face. A lowercase sentence sets close to 18% wider than Georgia, so it fills a line quickly; in a narrow column, drop the size a step.
What makes it good to work with is the figure set. Old style for running text, lining for headings, tabular for tables, proportional where spacing matters more than alignment, and a slashed zero for anything with codes in it. Add 6 stylistic sets and you can tune it a fair way. Latin, Cyrillic and Vietnamese are covered.
We would set an ebook or a long report in Regular with Light for captions, and use the Black only for the cover.
Characters & Figures
919 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !
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The Font Files
Download
Roboto Serif
18 TTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.
Download ZIP · 2.0 MB ↓- Version
- 1.008
- License
- SIL Open Font License 1.1
Install On Your Computer
Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.
Use On A Website
Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.
<link rel="stylesheet"
href="/fonts/roboto-serif-2/roboto-serif-2.css">
body {
font-family: 'Roboto Serif', sans-serif;
}Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.
Heading & Body
The family provides the heading; Inter carries the supporting text.
Roboto Serif Heading · Inter Body
Notes From The Reading Room
The reading room opens onto a quiet courtyard. Along the shelves, small handwritten labels mark the collections. A visitor leaves a book open beside the window, keeping a place for the next reader.