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Product Sans is a contemporary geometric sans-serif typeface created by Google for branding purposes. [2] [3] It replaced the old Google logo on September 1, 2015.As Google's branding was becoming more apparent on multiple device types, Google sought to adapt its design so that its logo could be portrayed in constrained spaces and remain consistent for its users across platforms.
Open Sans is popular in flat design-style web design. [5] Open Sans is used in some of Google's web pages as well as its print and web advertisements. It is the official font of the UK's Labour, Co-operative, and Liberal Democrat parties. Used in WordPress 3.8 which was released on December 12, 2013. [6]
Google Fonts (formerly known as Google Web Fonts) is a computer font and web font service owned by Google. This includes free and open source font families, an interactive web directory for browsing the library, and APIs for using the fonts via CSS [ 2 ] and Android . [ 3 ]
The project was started in 2010 by Ulanovsky [2] and was released through the Google Fonts catalogue in 2011. Montserrat has become increasingly popular among web designers, and it is used on over 17 million websites. [3] Featuring a large x-height, short descenders and wide apertures, this typeface achieves high legibility even in small sizes.
Roboto is the default system font on Android, and since 2013, other Google services such as Google Play, YouTube, Google Maps, [5] Google Images, and more.. In 2017, Roboto was used on the LCD countdown clocks of the New York City Subway's B Division lines.
Overpass is a geometric sans-serif digital typeface, derived from Highway Gothic, but instead with a focus on usage as a webfont on digital screens for user interfaces and websites. It was designed by Delve Withrington with Dave Bailey, Thomas Jockin, Alan Dague-Greene, and Aaron Bell between 2011–2021. [ 3 ]
To ensure that all Web users had a basic set of fonts, Microsoft started the Core fonts for the Web initiative in 1996 (terminated in 2002). Released fonts include Arial, Courier New, Times New Roman, Comic Sans, Impact, Georgia, Trebuchet, Webdings and Verdana—under an EULA that made them freely distributable but also limited some rights to their use.
The ChromeOS core fonts, also known as the Croscore fonts, are a collection of three TrueType font families: Arimo (), Tinos and Cousine ().These fonts are metrically compatible with Monotype Corporation’s Arial, Times New Roman, and Courier New, the most commonly used fonts on Microsoft Windows, for which they are intended as open-source substitutes.