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Google’s Roboto Flex is a fully customizable font or variable font as you might know it, that you can use to replace even all your fonts (if you don’t use too many).
The future is here, Google is doing it as we write this article.
They just released Roboto Flex, a completely customizable Roboto font.
If you don’t know too much about Roboto, here is some cool information.
- Roboto is the most used Google font.
- It is the default font on Android devices which are over 2.5 billion users.
So of course, Google picked Roboto to supercharge it with this Flex varianta that lets you do all the customizations you want, transforming Roboto in the font you need for all your projects.
Everything you need to know about Roboto Flex
Roboto as you know today is a bit different from the Roboto that was launched back in 2011.
Since then, Google constantly tweaked and improved Roboto, and they also launched different variants – sans Roboto, Roboto Serif, Roboto condensed, Roboto slab, and others.
Now Roboto gets a huge upgrade, the biggest upgrade ever made by Google.
And this is not just an upgrade in my opinion, it is a revolution in the font industry.
Roboto Flex now can be fully customized from all points of its design:
– Weight
– Width
– Optical sizes
As Google says: “Adapt the style to specific text sizes. At smaller sizes, letters typically become optimized for more legibility. At larger sizes, optimized for headlines, with more extreme weights and widths. In CSS this axis is activated automatically when it is available.”
– Fine tuning
The biggest difference between Roboto Flex and other variable fonts is the fact that with Roboto Flex you can huge flexibility.
The font comes with a wide range of weights and widths and you can use in different optical sizes.
This is important, as you can customize Roboto Flex for every size, every device, every application, every style, and every mood.
“The extremely light and narrow, or bold and wide styles that are now available in Flex’s largest optical sizes are so extreme, they are astonishing to me,” said Dave Crossland, Lead UX Programs and Operations Manager for Google Fonts. “And you don’t have to worry about them being illegible at small sizes, because the 1,000 weight at 144pt is not as extreme at 10pt. Everything in between is smoothly balanced too, for a very even typographic color, and this really simplifies producing high-quality typography.”
Google’s Roboto Flex Is A Fully Customizable Font – here is how to use it
As you see in this picture, there are lots of things you can customize.
With Roboto Flex, you can change pretty much everything, over 10 design options:
– Optical size
– Weight
– Width
– Slant
– Ascender height
– Counter width
– Descender height
– Figure height
– Grade
– Lowercase height
– Thin stroke
– Uppercase height
Now that you know everything you can change, you understand perfectly the power of Roboto Flex.
And it is 100% free to use.
It is like having an all-in-one free to use font, for all your projects.
If you haven’t played already with Roboto Flex, you should do it know here.
Conclusions
Variable fonts represent the future, and soon we will see them everywhere.
Google made a huge forward step with Roboto Flex and I bet it will hit the font industry hard with this awesome product.
Don’t forget that Roboto font is already super popular all over the world, and now people have the possibility to easily customize the font as they need, in just a few seconds, with a few clicks.
