- Heading
- Roboto Flex
- Body text
- Roboto Serif
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, serious
- The body font is made for reading
Roboto Flex
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Roboto Flex is a free font by Font Bureau, David Berlow, Santiago Orozco, Irene Vlachou, Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky, Mikhail Strukov, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 452 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 51% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Roboto Flex is a sans-serif font that extends the Roboto design. It is a variable font with 20 styles covering weights from 100 to 1000 and 948 glyphs. It supports Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh, with all the extra Cyrillic letters Kazakh needs. The font was developed by Font Bureau for Google and is free to use under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
Author
Font Bureau, David Berlow, Santiago Orozco, Irene Vlachou, Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky, Mikhail Strukov
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
948
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- serious
- Design
- grotesque
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Roboto Flex has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 452 languages of the 1069 we checked (language data: Google Fonts). The biggest languages come first.
- English
- Russian
- Spanish
- Portuguese
- German
- French
- Turkish
- Kazakh
- Swahili
- Indonesian
- Javanese
- Vietnamese
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
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- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Greek
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Rundi
- Serbian(Cyrillic)
- Danish
- Wolaytta
- Albanian
- Croatian
- Slovak
- Southern Sotho
- Tswana
- Luyia
- Guarani
- Finnish
- Ganda
- Norwegian Bokmål
- Bemba
- Northern Sotho
- Luo
- Tok Pisin
- Sukuma
- Tsonga
- Balinese
- Uzbek(Cyrillic)
- Norwegian
- Buginese
- Kamba
- Kalenjin
- Banjar
- Makhuwa
- Bosnian(Cyrillic)
- Bosnian(Latin)
- Sidamo
- Acehnese
- Galician
- Tiv
- Bikol
- Waray
- Efik
- Mongolian
- Sango
- Kyrgyz
- Aymara
- Nyankole
- Hmong
- Jamaican Creole English
- Gusii
- Pampanga
- Beja
- Batak Toba
- Lithuanian
- Chiga
- Soga
- Swati
- Tumbuka
- Meru
- Afar
…and 342 more languages that are not listed here.
Special characters
Characters people often look for. “Included” means the font has all signs of the group.
- Kazakhstani Tenge — Included
- Russian Ruble — Included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Included
- Indian Rupee — Included
- British Pound — Included
- Japanese Yen — Included
- US Dollar — Included
- Yo (Ё ё) — Included
- Numero sign — Included
- Guillemets (angle quotes) — Included
- En and em dashes — Included
- Ellipsis — Included
- Legal marks (© ® ™) — Included
- Arrows — Included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 826
- x-height
- 51% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 3.200;gftools[0.9.32]
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Kerning
kern - Proportional figures
pnum
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
OFL-1.1
- Commercial projects
- Allowed
- Embedding on a website
- Allowed
- Modifying the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Sharing the font
- Allowed, with conditions
- Credit and notices
- Keep the notices when you share the font
- Selling the font on its own
- Not allowed
Under the SIL Open Font License a modified font must stay under the same license and may not use the original name if the author reserved it. The font may be bundled with software but not sold by itself.
Read the license textHow to install
Install the .ttf or .otf files, not both versions of the same font; unzip the archive first.
Windows
- Unzip the archive.
- Right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install.
- Restart your program.
macOS
- Unzip the archive.
- Double-click the .ttf or .otf file.
- Click Install Font in the window that opens.
Linux
- Unzip the archive.
- Copy the files to ~/.local/share/fonts.
- Run fc-cache -f -v and restart your program.
Facts and sources
- Where the font comes from
- fonts.google.com/specimen/Roboto+Flex
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Roboto Flex font free to use?
Yes. Roboto Flex is distributed under the OFL-1.1 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Roboto Flex support Cyrillic?
Yes, Roboto Flex includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Roboto Flex support?
Roboto Flex covers 452 of the 1069 languages we checked: it has every letter of their basic alphabets, in both cases. The full list is in the Supported languages section of this page.
Is Roboto Flex a variable font?
Yes. Roboto Flex is a variable font: weight and other properties change smoothly inside one file instead of needing a separate file for each style.
How do I install Roboto Flex?
Download the family archive and unzip it. On Windows, right-click the .ttf or .otf file and choose Install; on macOS, double-click the file and click Install Font. Restart your program afterwards. Step-by-step guides are in the Guides section.
Who created Roboto Flex?
Roboto Flex was created by Font Bureau, David Berlow, Santiago Orozco, Irene Vlachou, Ilya Ruderman, Yury Ostromentsky, Mikhail Strukov.
What is Roboto Flex good for?
Judging by its design, Roboto Flex suits: interfaces, body text, headings, magazines and editorial.
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