Open licence · Sans serif
Roboto
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Roboto webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Roboto.
Measured character
Measured from the outlines, not from a description. Each band is a third of the open catalogue: “tall x-height” means taller than two thirds of it, which is a fact about the measurement rather than an opinion.
Fonts similar to Roboto, measured
Ranked by the same engine the app uses, on the ten features it measures, within the sans serif pool. The line under each names how it differs from Roboto, in words, never a percentage.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Heebo webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Heebo.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Vazirmatn webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Vazirmatn.
Quiet luxury, approachable
The Coda webfont did not load here — this is a fallback face, not Coda.
These are the first 3 of 992 ranked. The full list, and the same ranking against every font you own, is part of founding access.
What $39 buys →Roboto as a free alternative to
Roboto is suggested on 13 licensed families’ profiles. The basis is named on each: metric-compatible means the advance widths match, so a swap keeps the line breaks; derived means it was drawn from the same source; the rest are judgement, labelled as such.
- AG Book W1G commonly substituted
- Akzidenz-Grotesk commonly substituted
- Akzidenz-Grotesk Next commonly substituted
- Arial commonly substituted
- Forma DJR commonly substituted
- Helvetica commonly substituted
- Helvetica Now commonly substituted
- Neue Haas Grotesk Display commonly substituted
- Neue Haas Grotesk Text commonly substituted
- Neue Helvetica commonly substituted
- Neue Helvetica eText commonly substituted
- Univers commonly substituted
- Univers Next commonly substituted
In the app
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