As competitors, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe are normally hard-pressed to agree with each other, and it’s especially rare when design is involved. But two weeks ago, these four frenemies signed ...

Fonts have personalities and convey different moods. A typeface or font matched to the personality or attributes of a specific individual or group can be the element that makes designs resonate with ...

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Google has officially released Google Sans Flex as an open-source resource, marking a massive milestone for a typeface that started as a simple internal design solution. This move allows designers and ...

Google has unveiled Roboto Serif, a new typeface for Android that it says should be ideal for reading text online. Roboto Serif is available now via Google Fonts and will come included with Android as ...

Google introduced Roboto in 2011 as Android’s new system font and gave it a big upgrade three years later. “Roboto Serif” is now the newest variation “designed to make reading more comfortable at any ...

In addition to introducing a new logo last year, Google Fonts added support for open source icons. Google’s Material Symbols are now available leveraging variable font technology. Many of these 2,500 ...

Fluid typography uses responsive scaling to ensure readability on both small and large displays, while variable fonts allow multiple weights, widths, and styles to be included within a single file.

This new feature was introduced in 2016 by major players in the type world. Since then, it has seen rapid adoption in software and web browsers: right now, it’s supported in Photoshop, Illustrator, ...