For screen reading, sans is often preferred. It's possible that this is somewhat outdated advice with the advent of High-DPI displays, but it certainly still holds true if you're targetting a diverse set of devices, including older screens.
And, since you went there first: "lieu".
D'oh! I mispelled "lieu" but corrected it within the edit window. Heh.
That's classic: I'm scolding the other fellow for not looking where he's going and I walk into a pole myself. Heh.
but... I'm a rando posting in anger. They're a brand company that just released a thing for Google with a typo in the "Brand Guide". (It's in the PDF, is it in the hardcopy? I'd be mortified if this was my project.)
I don't really have a response for your point about screen reading.
>That's classic: I'm scolding the other fellow for not looking where he's going and I walk into a pole myself. Heh.
Muphry's Law :)
> Roboto is a contemporary sans serif typeface designed for readability.
That's an oxymoron: "sans serif typeface designed for readability".
Thin sans serif body text is how you show you hate your reader's eyes.
And they didn't even run a damn spell-checker over the thing:
> For additional background and guideance (sic)
(Points for using the correct word "typeface" in lieu of "font" tho. Are you watching Woz!?)