[gerardbloom]

The roboto font weight seems to be bolder/heavier than it should be..
The light weight seems to be normal that of typical Roboto.
I’ve drawn up a comparison.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39930/roboto-font-comparison.png

Also, are there plans to add the Roboto Thin weight option?

Thanks,

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Gerard

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hi Gerard,

Thanks for writing.

Where are you taking those fonts to compare? A graphic editor tool like Photoshop/Fireworks?

Have in mind that the text above the live search functionality has some shadow which can be a bit confusing in terms of font weights.

Best,
Juan.

[gerardbloom]

Photoshop. If you see the roboto font weight on Google, you’ll notice a difference.
http://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto

I do notice the slight shadow, but that shadow is dark and doesn’t seem to affect the boldness of the white text.

[Juanfra Aldasoro]

Hello Gerard,

Well, webfonts never look the same in photoshop as they do in a browser. They even differ on different browsers. For example, viewing a google font in Chrome doesn’t look the same than in Firefox.

What I mean with the text shadow is that it may affect the way you see it, like an optical illusion, not that it affects the boldness. For example, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Optical_illusion

Best,
Juan.