This is the source repository for Roboto: Google’s signature family of fonts, the default font on Android and Chrome OS, and the recommended font for Google’s visual language, Material Design. 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. [A subset of an earlier version of Roboto](https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto) is available from Google Fonts, and can be used as a web font. ## Setup Create a clean directory for Roboto: ```bash mkdir -p $HOME/roboto-src cd $HOME/roboto-src ``` Download the Roboto tools and sources: ```bash git clone https://github.com/google/roboto.git ``` Create a virtual Python environment (optional but recommended): ```bash pip install --user virtualenv virtualenv roboto-env source roboto-env/bin/activate ``` Download and install the dependencies: ```bash cd roboto pip install -r requirements.txt ``` #### Optional additional setup for running tests Download the latest tarball release of HarfBuzz [here](http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/HarfBuzz/) and extract it into the **home** directory as `$HOME/harfbuzz` (alternatively, you can download the latest source from GitHub via `git clone https://github.com/behdad/harfbuzz.git`). Build and install HarfBuzz: ```bash cd $HOME/harfbuzz ./configure make sudo make install cd $HOME/roboto-src/ ``` On Ubuntu (or other distributions of GNU/Linux, using the appropriate package manager), make sure eog is installed: ```bash sudo apt-get install eog ``` ## Run ```bash cd roboto make ```