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+This is the source repository for Roboto: Google’s signature family
+of fonts, the default font on Android and ChromeOS, and the
+recommended font for Google’s visual language, Material Design.
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+It also contains the toolchain used in creating Roboto.
+
+The font family supports all Latin, Cyrillic, and Greek characters in
+Unicode 7.0, as well as the currency symbol for the Georgian lari, to
+be published in Unicode 8.0.
+
+The fonts are currently available in eighteen different styles.
+
 # Setup
 
 #### Create a clean directory for roboto: