- Heading
- IBM Plex Sans Devanagari
- 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
Roboto Serif
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Roboto Serif is a free font by Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz, released under the OFL-1.1 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 503 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 52% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Roboto Serif is a serif font with 18 styles and weights from 100 to 900, and it is a variable font. It contains 1264 glyphs and supports the Latin, Cyrillic and Kazakh scripts, covering the extra Cyrillic letters Kazakh needs. The typeface was designed by Commercial Type and Greg Gazdowicz to offer a comfortable, frictionless reading experience in both digital and print media. It is free to use under the OFL-1.1 license.
Author
Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz
License terms
OFL-1.1
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1264
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- serious
- Design
- humanist
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Roboto Serif has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 503 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
- Italian
- Filipino
- Nigerian Pidgin
- Polish
- Hausa
- Oromo
- Sundanese
- Dutch
- Ukrainian
- Igbo
- Uzbek(Latin)
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
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- Malagasy
- Romanian
- Nyanja
- Madurese
- Somali
- Zulu
- Czech
- Swedish
- Hungarian
- Shona
- Low German
- Quechua
- Kinyarwanda
- Wolof
- Congo Swahili
- Turkmen
- Iloko
- Xhosa
- Belarusian
- Luba-Lulua
- Azerbaijani
- Umbundu
- Afrikaans
- Hiligaynon
- Kikuyu
- Haitian Creole
- Tajik
- Catalan
- Kimbundu
- Serbian(Latin)
- Minangkabau
- Swiss German
- Bulgarian
- Fula
- 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
- Sicilian
- 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
…and 395 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 — Not included
- Math signs — Included
Characteristics
- Mapped characters
- 919
- x-height
- 52% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 1.008
- 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 - Old-style figures
onum - Lining figures
lnum - Proportional figures
pnum - Tabular figures
tnum - Fractions
frac - Slashed zero
zero - Superscript
sups - Subscript
subs - Stylistic sets (6)
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+Serif
- Designer’s page
- commercialtype.com
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Roboto Serif font free to use?
Yes. Roboto Serif 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 Serif support Cyrillic?
Yes, Roboto Serif includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Roboto Serif support?
Roboto Serif covers 503 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 Serif a variable font?
Yes. Roboto Serif 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 Serif?
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 Serif?
Roboto Serif was created by Commercial Type, Greg Gazdowicz.
What is Roboto Serif good for?
Judging by its design, Roboto Serif suits: body text, magazines and editorial, headings, interfaces.
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