Roboto font comes from Android and Google designed it really well. It looks awesome on desktops and laptops. But getting it working as a default system font in Linux is quite a task because the font package of Roboto available has multiple font forms declaring same type of text style.

The standard Roboto package consists of following fonts:

• Roboto-BlackItalic
• Roboto-Black
• Roboto-BoldCondensedItalic
• Roboto-BoldCondensed
• Roboto-BoldItalic
• Roboto-Bold
• Roboto-CondensedItalic
• Roboto-Condensed
• Roboto-Italic
• Roboto-LightItalic
• Roboto-Light
• Roboto-MediumItalic
• Roboto-Medium
• Roboto-Regular
• Roboto-ThinItalic
• Roboto-Thin

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