summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/fonts/roboto/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'fonts/roboto/README')
-rw-r--r--fonts/roboto/README122
1 files changed, 76 insertions, 46 deletions
diff --git a/fonts/roboto/README b/fonts/roboto/README
index face859d85..92e7b87503 100644
--- a/fonts/roboto/README
+++ b/fonts/roboto/README
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
This is the README for the roboto package, version
-2019-12-11.
+2022-05-08.
-This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
-support for the Roboto, RobotoCondensed, RobotoMono and
-RobotoSlab families of fonts, designed by Christian
-Robertson for Google, who says:
+This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and
+LuaLaTeX support for the Roboto, RobotoMono, RobotoSlab
+and RobotoSerif families of fonts, designed by Christian
+Robertson and Greg Gazdowicz for Google, who say:
- Roboto has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton
+ Roboto (Sans) has a dual nature. It has a mechanical skeleton
and the forms are largely geometric. At the same time,
the font features friendly and open curves. While some
grotesks distort their letterforms to force a rigid
@@ -15,20 +15,20 @@ Robertson for Google, who says:
natural reading rhythm more commonly found in humanist and
serif types.
+ Roboto Serif is designed to create a comfortable
+ and frictionless reading experience. Minimal and
+ highly functional, it is useful anywhere (even for app
+ interfaces) due to the extensive set of weights and widths
+ across a broad range of optical sizes. While it was
+ carefully crafted to work well in digital media, across
+ the full scope of sizes and resolutions we have today, it
+ is just as comfortable to read and work in print media.
+
In addition to some condensed variants, there are four
weights in a slab-serif family. Roboto and RobotoCondensed
have small-capitals.
-To install this package on a TDS-compliant
-TeX system download the file
-"tex-archive"/install/fonts/roboto.tds.zip, where the
-preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org.
-Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree,
-likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the
-file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map
-files by enabling the Map file roboto.map.
-
-To use, add
+To activate the sans-serif fonts, add
\usepackage{roboto}
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ font, use
\usepackage[sfdefault]{roboto}
-To use RobotoMono, add
-
-\usepackage{roboto-mono}
-
-LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or
-who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option.
Other options include:
@@ -53,32 +47,48 @@ medium
black
light
thin
-
-These are implemented by defining macros recognized
-by commands defined in the mweights package (without
-re-defining \bfdefault or \mddefault).
-
condensed
Only light, regular and bold weights are available in the
-condensed family.
+condensed sans family.
Defaults are regular and bold (uncondensed).
Italics (slanted) are available in all variants.
-rm
+rm, slab
-This option activates the slab-serif variants as the main
+These options activate the slab-serif variants as the main
text font. The weights available are thin, light, regular
and bold, but there are no italics.
Options scaled=<number> or scale=<number> may be used to
adjust the sans fontsizes to match a serifed font.
+LuaLaTeX and xeLaTeX users who might prefer type1 fonts or
+who wish to avoid fontspec may use the type1 option.
+
+To activate RobotoMono, use
+
+\usepackage{roboto-mono}
+
+To activate RobotoSerif, use
+
+\usepackage{roboto-serif}
+
+The following options are supported:
+
+regular
+bold
+medium
+black
+light
+thin
+condensed
+
The default figure style is proportional-lining but the
-following options may be used to get other styles (in
-Roboto and RobotoCondensed):
+following options may be used to get other styles
+in Roboto, RobotoSerif and the condensed variants:
oldstyle (or osf)
tabular (or t)
@@ -86,30 +96,50 @@ tabular (or t)
The following allow for localized use of non-default figure
styles:
-\robotoLF{...} (proportional lining)
-\robotoTLF{...} (tabular lining)
-\robotoOsF{...} (proportional oldstyle)
-\robotoTOsF{...} (tabular oldstyle)
+\robotoLF{...} \robotoserifLF{...} (proportional lining)
+\robotoTLF{...} \robotoserifTLF{...} (tabular lining)
+\robotoOsF{...} \robotoserifOsF{...} (proportional oldstyle)
+\robotoTOsF{...} \robotoserifTOsF{...} (tabular oldstyle)
The following commands allow for localized use of
non-default weights:
-\robotoThin{...} \robotomonoThin{...}
-\robotoLight{...} \robotomonoLight{...}
-\robotoRegular{...} \robotomonoRegular{...}
-\robotoMedium{...} \robotomonoMedium{...}
-\robotoBold{...} \robotomonoBold{...}
-\robotoBlack{...} \robotomonoBlack{...}
+\robotoThin{...} \robotomonoThin{...} \robotoserifThin{...}
+\robotoLight{...} \robotomonoLight{...} \robotoserifLight{...}
+\robotoRegular{...} \robotomonoRegular{...} \robotoserifRegular{...}
+\robotoMedium{...} \robotomonoMedium{...} \robotoserifMedium{...}
+\robotoBold{...} \robotomonoBold{...} \robotoserifBold{...}
+\robotoBlack{...} \robotomonoBlack{...} \robotoserifBlack{...}
+
+Commands
+
+\roboto
+\robotocondensed
+\robotoboldcondensed
+\robotoslab
+\robotolgr
+\robotoslablgr
+\robotomono
+\robotoserif
+\robotoserifcondensed
+\robotoserifboldcondensed
+
+select those font families or series.
Font encodings supported are OT1, T1, TS1, LY1 and LGR.
-Commands \roboto, \robotocondensed, \robotoboldcondensed,
-\robotoslab, \robotolgr, \robotoslablgr and \robotomono select
-those font families or series.
+To install this package on a TDS-compliant
+TeX system download the file
+"tex-archive"/install/fonts/roboto.tds.zip, where the
+preferred URL for "tex-archive" is http://mirror.ctan.org.
+Unzip the archive at the root of an appropriate texmf tree,
+likely a personal or local tree. If necessary, update the
+file-name database (e.g., texhash). Update the font-map
+files by enabling the Map file roboto.map.
The original truetype fonts are available at
http://www.google.com/webfonts and are licensed under the
-Apache License, (version 2); the text may be found in the
+Apache or OFL licenses; the texts may be found in the
doc directory. The opentype and type1 versions were created
using fontforge and cfftot1. The support files were created
using autoinst and are licensed under the terms of the LaTeX