Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman

Re:Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman by foobarbazetc on Monday January 02, 2012 @08:28PM (#3418214)

This article, like Roboto, is barely readable. :)

I was wondering why I had so much trouble reading this screen full of text, and it turned out the entire thing is typeset in Roboto. Argh.

Roboto is not (that) interesting. People need to stop going on about it.

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Re:Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman by AllenKids on Monday January 02, 2012 @09:32PM (#3418362)

In Roboto's defense (If there ever was one) it really is not fitted to be displayed on desktop OSes. Of course that kinda goes against Fleishman's argument that it is designed to be versatile across dpi configurations.

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Re:Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman by pak on Tuesday January 03, 2012 @09:04AM (#3419637)

The article mentions "low 100s of ppi to 300 ppi," which is about the range for smartphone screens these days. Most desktops and notebooks still have displays at around 96 dpi.

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Re:Roboto: Android font explained By Glenn Fleishman by AllenKids on Wednesday January 04, 2012 @02:32AM (#3423208)

On a 17" 1920x1200 display Roboto still looks like crap.

It has no desktop anti-alias feature. To me it never looks good, but on desktop especially crappy.

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