Google’s latest Roboto variant is a font customizable to its core

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Roboto Flex gives you tons of design options.

, you’ve seen Roboto. Now, Google’s introducing something called Roboto Flex. As the name implies, it’s a version of its famous font that you can tweak and customize in a ton of ways.

I can sense I might be about to lose a lot of people, so let’s try this: here’s a gif showing all the customizable parameters Roboto Flex has. There’s no trickery going on — I’m not changing a raster image with Photoshop or anything. Everything you see is built into the font itself and can be changed as easily as the font size.

Roboto Flex also has a few other interesting features that aren’t directly related to making it look cool. In, Google says it’s put a lot of balancing into the font to make sure that it looks right at specific sizes, so the text will look properly bold or thin, whether it’s taking up an entire page or is just a teeny footnote. Google’s announcement also gets into how the font’s designers made sure tiny details were right.

What this all means in practice is that designers have a lot of control over how their text ends up looking without having to do a lot of work . It’s also great for web designers who want a standard-looking font that they can tweak to make sure their headings and titles stand out, both from the rest of the text on the page and from other websites. It also doesn’t hurt that, because it’s a Google Font, you can add it to your site with one or two lines of code.Plus...

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