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Roboto

Roboto is one of 91 families offering all nine weights from Thin to Black, each with an italic. It carries true small capitals, a feature present in 179 of the 1,899 families. It lists nine script subsets, more than 99% of the sans serifs.

Outlines drawn from the Roboto file at weight 400. The dashed line is the median x-height of the sans serifs.

Measure, per 1,000 em	Roboto	Median of 732 sans serifs
Ascender (top of d)	750	740
Cap height (top of H)	711	702
x-height (top of x)	528	519
Descender (foot of p)	−203	−213
x-height ÷ cap height	0.74	0.70
Average lowercase width	499	522
Ink coverage, a–z	45.4%	40.2%

Versions and companionsA shared designer and a shared name or matching measurements

Version	Compared with Roboto	Added
Roboto Condensed	lowercase narrower by 58	2023
Roboto Flex	x-height shorter by 15	2022

Where it sitsEvery sans serif family is a dot

X-height across the 716 sans serifs with ascenders

294672

Just below: Archivo Black, Reddit Sans Condensed; just above: Ramabhadra, Be Vietnam Pro; level with: Arimo, Comme, Gidole

Average lowercase width across the 732 sans serifs

1831,319

Just below: Asap, Asap Sharp; just above: Stick, Heebo; level with: Vazirmatn

Weights and styles

One variable file per style covers every weight from 100 to 900.

Axis	Tag	Range	In the library
Width	wdth	75 to 100	99 families
Weight	wght	100 to 900	545 families

ScriptsFamilies sharing each subset

Inside the file

In the measured file: 1,326 glyphs and 927 mapped Unicode characters; 26 OpenType feature tags.

Declared features: capitals to small capitals, old-style figures, lining figures, tabular figures, proportional figures, fractions, superscripts, subscripts, standard ligatures, discretionary ligatures and seven stylistic sets.

Measured neighboursClosest in proportion; differences per 1,000 em

Vazirmatnequal x-height, same width Heeboequal x-height, wider Sawarabi Gothictaller x-height, wider Reddit Sansshorter x-height, wider Litershorter x-height, same width

Outside the sans serif class

Codataller x-height, wider Cherry Swashshorter x-height, wider Battambangequal x-height, wider

Rank every family against Roboto

Same designer

Christian Robertson is also credited on Roboto Slab and Roboto Mono. ParaType is credited on 6 other families in the library, from PT Sans (2010) to PT Mono (2012); the closest of them in x-height and width is PT Serif.