Roboto Slab

Try Roboto Slab

Weights and styles

• Thin 100Roboto Slab Thin
• ExtraLight 200Roboto Slab ExtraLight
• Light 300Roboto Slab Light
• Regular 400Roboto Slab Regular
• Medium 500Roboto Slab Medium
• SemiBold 600Roboto Slab SemiBold
• Bold 700Roboto Slab Bold
• ExtraBold 800Roboto Slab ExtraBold
• Black 900Roboto Slab Black

Roboto Slab is a variable font: the download holds the whole weight range in one file, and the named weights above are positions on that range.

About Roboto Slab

Roboto Slab is a slab serif family that adds square, unbracketed serifs to the Roboto design. The official notes describe the shared skeleton as mechanical and largely geometric, with open curves and letters that keep their natural widths, and position the slab as a companion to Roboto and Roboto Condensed. In the specimen the serifs are flat slabs about as thick as the stems, and contrast between strokes is low. The family is variable in weight from 100 to 900, with nine named weights from Thin to Black; the weight axis arrived in November 2019. There is no italic. Its 1,154 glyphs cover Latin, Latin Extended, Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese sets. Christian Robertson is credited as designer. Roboto Slab is published under the Apache License 2.0, not the SIL Open Font License.

Where Roboto Slab works

Article headlines over Roboto text

It shares Roboto's skeleton, so slab headings sit naturally above sans serif body copy.

Editorial pull quotes

Thin and Light at large sizes turn the slabs into fine horizontal lines that set a quotation apart from the text.

Presentation titles

Bold to Black give slide titles heavy, square-footed letters.

Russian, Greek and Vietnamese headings

Cyrillic, Greek and Vietnamese sets let titles in those scripts use the same slab style.

Glyphs

Language support

The family contains the core letters these languages are written with:

• English
• French
• German
• Spanish
• Portuguese
• Italian
• Dutch
• Swedish
• Norwegian
• Danish
• Finnish
• Icelandic
• Catalan
• Turkish
• Polish
• Czech
• Slovak
• Hungarian
• Romanian
• Croatian
• Slovenian
• Lithuanian
• Latvian
• Estonian
• Vietnamese
• Russian
• Ukrainian
• Bulgarian
• Greek

Writing systems with glyphs in the family besides Latin: Cyrillic, Greek. These are listed as scripts, not as a promise for every language written in them.

Character sets found in the files: cyrillic, cyrillic-ext, greek, latin, latin-ext, vietnamese. The language list is a check of required letters against the font, not a promise of typographic quality in each language.

License

Fonts that pair with Roboto Slab

Suggestions come from simple rules on the records: a contrasting classification and enough weights to carry body text. They are a starting point, not a verdict.

Use Roboto Slab on the web

Download the family and host the files on your own site, then declare them in CSS. Please do not link to the files on trendhub.net: preview files here are subsets and their addresses change.

@font-face {
  font-family: "Roboto Slab";
  src: url("/assets/fonts/RobotoSlab-VariableFont_wght.ttf") format("truetype");
  font-weight: 100 900;
  font-style: normal;
  font-display: swap;
}

body {
  font-family: "Roboto Slab", serif;
}

Or load it from the official source. Google Fonts serves Roboto Slab with this markup:

<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto+Slab:wght@100..900&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

Things to know

No italic

Roboto Slab has upright styles only.

Apache License 2.0

Copies carry the license text and existing notices, and modified files state that they were changed.

One variable file

RobotoSlab-VariableFont_wght.ttf covers Thin 100 to Black 900.

FAQs

Collections with Roboto Slab

• Fonts for presentations and slides

  Sans-serif and slab-serif families that stay readable on a projector or a shared screen, with strong bolds for slide titles.

• Type systems with matching sans, serif and mono families

  Families designed to be used together: a sans, a serif or slab and often a monospace that share proportions, weights and character.

Similar fonts

Other families in the same classification, ordered by shared use tags. All slab serif fonts