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How to use Google Font Roboto

Posted: October 28, 2022 | by Michael Bright

Do this to use Google Font Roboto CSS as a code snippet.

@import url('https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto&display=swap');
font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;

Example using HTML.

//html
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com">
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=Roboto:wght@300&display=swap" rel="stylesheet">

The CSS

//css
body {
   font-family: 'Roboto', sans-serif;
}

Example using CSS font-face.

@font-face {
   font-family: 'Roboto';
      src: url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.eot');
      src: url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.eot?#iefix') format('embedded-opentype'),
           url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.woff') format('woff'),
           url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.ttf') format('truetype'),
           url('Roboto-ThinItalic-webfont.svg#RobotoThinItalic') format('svg'); 
      font-weight: 200;
      font-style: italic;
}

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