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The Roboto family of fonts
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Why some glyphs are displayed incorrectlty if we use Roboto via google link? Is it possible to use all glyphs in the font via link? #339

Open SampetovaN opened 3 years ago

SampetovaN commented 3 years ago

For example, how infinity symbol looks like if we add file .ttf (or woff(2), whatever) in a project file-font But it doesn't work with the link font-link

Why? Or it should work like this?

josephrocca commented 2 years ago

Yeah I just stumbled across this problem too. I'm pretty sure it's just falling back to another font that you have on your system - which is why it's a different glyph than you expect. Otherwise you'd see "tofu" - i.e. a square block indicating a missing glyph.

The worse part is that they don't actually tell you on the Google Fonts page that you're only getting a partial version of Roboto. Confused me for a while. You can get the "full" versions of Roboto here: https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto/tree/main/src/hinted

I don't think it's currently possible to get the full version via Google Fonts.