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They say they keep updating it, which kind of makes me wonder what the best way is to keep up to date with the newest versions. Is there an automated way to do that? I don't like to manually check every other month if a font has a new version, and cloning the repo seems overkill if all I want is the output.


Oh wow, they got rid of the Helvetica-style R entirely. Good riddance, that's my least favorite thing about Helvetica.


I really appreciated they decided to blow away all the Helvetica characteristics and go straight for an inspired variation of Akzidenz-Grotesk. It looks great on print!


It's really come a long way since launch.

http://typographica.org/on-typography/roboto-typeface-is-a-f...

Kudos to Stephen Coles for keeping that article updated as the font has evolved and improved.


The K's with the flat middle were horrible. Interesting that they were the only characters poached from Ronnia and now replaced with something more familar.


You can use Monotype Skyfonts, which has a free service for downloading and syncing the Google Fonts collection:

http://www.fonts.com/web-fonts/google


Thanks for the tip! Too bad that I run Ubuntu, not Windows or OSX. I'll keep it bookmarked in case I ever switch again though :)


Install typecatcher from the archive, it's a graphical program that will let you fetch and install google fonts. It has previews and so on, nice app.


You say in another comment that you use Ubuntu. With Arch I'd make my own package to manage this, if one didn't exist. It's quite easy with Arch, but I'm not really sure whether that's the case with Ubuntu. I've definitely found packaging to be a skill worth having.




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