Dave Crossland For the past 5 years, the Google Fonts team has led development of the next generation of the OpenType font format as part of MPEG. Within our “OpenType 2.0” program we’ve also developed new typefaces, to convert the potential of these new technologies into realized typographic form. The biggest outcome so far is a new version of Roboto: Roboto Delta.
We invited Font Bureau to create this masterpiece that showcases how parametric axes can leverage avar2 technology to create massive file-size savings. Roboto Delta offers 2,079 glyphs in Latin Greek and Cyrillic and is composed of 38 axes, yet is smaller than just a handful of Roboto static fonts.
This presentation reviews why the project was commissioned, the theory and tools required to make it happen, and how designers can adopt it in Material, the design system for Google products and platforms, and in all kinds of visual design.