- Heading
- Montserrat Alternates
- Body text
- Roboto Slab
- A serif with a sans serif: clear contrast of structure
- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
- The heading font is made for headings
Roboto Slab
Size72px
Letter spacing0px
Line height1
About the font
Roboto Slab is a free font by Christian Robertson, released under the Apache-2.0 license. Of the 1069 languages we checked, 463 have every letter of their basic alphabet in this font. The x-height is 53% of the em and the capital height is 71%.
Roboto Slab is a serif font designed by Christian Robertson and released under the Apache-2.0 license, which allows free use. It is a variable font with nine styles and a weight range from 100 to 900. The font contains 1164 glyphs and supports Latin and Cyrillic scripts as well as Kazakh. It belongs to the Roboto family and can be used alongside Roboto and Roboto Condensed.
Author
Christian Robertson
License terms
Apache-2.0
Scripts
Cyrillic; Latin
Glyphs
1164
Character and uses
- Mood
- calm
- friendly
- Design
- slab serif
Marked from the shapes of the letters by an AI model, not by the author of the font.
Supported languages
Roboto Slab has every letter of the basic alphabet, capitals included, for 463 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
- Cebuano
- Kurdish
- Malagasy
- Romanian
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- 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
- Tajik
- 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
- 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 353 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 — Not included
- Russian Ruble — Not included
- Euro — Included
- Turkish Lira — Not included
- Ukrainian Hryvnia — Not included
- Indian Rupee — Not 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
- 901
- x-height
- 53% of the em
- Capital height
- 71% of the em
- Version
- 2.002
- Embedding in documents
- Allowed
OpenType features
Extras you can switch on in design software or in CSS with font-feature-settings.
- Standard ligatures
liga - Discretionary ligatures
dlig - Kerning
kern - Small capitals
smcp - Capitals to small capitals
c2sc - Lining figures
lnum - Fractions
frac - Case-sensitive forms
case - Superscript
sups - Ordinals
ordn - Stylistic sets (5)
License at a glance
A plain summary, not legal advice. What counts is the license text that comes with the download.
Apache-2.0
- 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
- Allowed
The Apache License 2.0 asks you to keep the copyright and license notices and to state significant changes if you share a modified font.
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+Slab
- Language data
- Google Fonts Languages
- Page last updated
FAQ
Is the Roboto Slab font free to use?
Yes. Roboto Slab is distributed under the Apache-2.0 license, which allows free use, including in commercial projects. The license text is in the download.
Does Roboto Slab support Cyrillic?
Yes, Roboto Slab includes Cyrillic glyphs.
How many languages does Roboto Slab support?
Roboto Slab covers 463 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 Slab a variable font?
Yes. Roboto Slab 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 Slab?
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 Slab?
Roboto Slab was created by Christian Robertson.
What is Roboto Slab good for?
Judging by its design, Roboto Slab suits: body text, interfaces, magazines and editorial, headings.
Pairs well with Roboto Slab
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- The same x-height: lowercase letters stand equally tall
- A shared mood: calm, friendly
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