Google's Matias Duarte says Android's new system font should help loosen up its techie image. Too bad about the name. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote about processors, ...

You can peek into Android's future now, by installing the new Roboto font featured in Ice Cream Sandwich onto your current phone or tablet. Share on Facebook (opens ...

It was merely four years ago that Google debuted Christian Robertson’s titular Roboto family of fonts, if you can believe it. Since then, the typeface that’s come to characterize Android has made its ...

It's easy to take fonts for granted, but a huge amount of effort goes into crafting them just-so. A well-designed font is just as readable large as it is small, and the eye should effortlessly be able ...