Roboto is a sans-serif typeface family introduced with Android Ice Cream Sandwich operating system. Google describes the font as "modern, yet approachable" and "emotional". The font is licensed under the Apache license. The entire font family was officially made available for free download on January 12, 2012 on the newly launched Android Design website. The family includes regular and oblique styles of Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black, and Condensed widths.
The font was designed entirely in-house at Google by Christian Robertson, an interface designer for Google.
The font itself - as well as this little wrapper library - is distributed under the Apache License 2.0.
The file "COPYING.txt" contains the original license text that can be found next to the TTF files when downloading the font from the Android project's website.
This library provides a bundled version of these fonts that can easily be used in your Java/JavaFX-based applications.
A compiled and ready-to-use version of this library can be found in the Sonatype OSS Maven Repository (oss.sonatype.org). To use the library in your Maven based projects just add the following lines to your 'pom.xml':
<dependency>
<groupId>com.cathive.fonts</groupId>
<artifactId>fonts-roboto</artifactId>
<version>${fonts-roboto.version}</version>
</dependency>