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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by vanderZwan on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:12PM (#9607329)
They say they keep updating it, which kind of makes me wonder what the best way is to keep up to date with the newest versions. Is there an automated way to do that? I don't like to manually check every other month if a font has a new version, and cloning the repo seems overkill if all I want is the output.
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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by sp332 on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:41PM (#9607511)
Oh wow, they got rid of the Helvetica-style R entirely. Good riddance, that's my least favorite thing about Helvetica.
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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by thrillgore on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @04:44PM (#9607536)
I really appreciated they decided to blow away all the Helvetica characteristics and go straight for an inspired variation of Akzidenz-Grotesk. It looks great on print!
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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by Steko on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @06:12PM (#9608025)
It's really come a long way since launch.

http://typographica.org/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-f...

Kudos to Stephen Coles for keeping that article updated as the font has evolved and improved.

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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by duncanawoods on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @07:34PM (#9608357)
The K's with the flat middle were horrible. Interesting that they were the only characters poached from Ronnia and now replaced with something more familar.
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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by tjohns on Tuesday May 26, 2015 @10:07PM (#9608912)
You can use Monotype Skyfonts, which has a free service for downloading and syncing the Google Fonts collection:

http://www.fonts.com/web-fonts/google

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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by vanderZwan on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @03:35AM (#9609894)
Thanks for the tip! Too bad that I run Ubuntu, not Windows or OSX. I'll keep it bookmarked in case I ever switch again though :)
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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by jcastro on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @11:51AM (#9612207)
Install typecatcher from the archive, it's a graphical program that will let you fetch and install google fonts. It has previews and so on, nice app.
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Re:Roboto: Google’s signature font is now open source by mkingston on Wednesday May 27, 2015 @06:04AM (#9610334)
You say in another comment that you use Ubuntu. With Arch I'd make my own package to manage this, if one didn't exist. It's quite easy with Arch, but I'm not really sure whether that's the case with Ubuntu. I've definitely found packaging to be a skill worth having.
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