YouTube Switches to Roboto

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YouTube Switches to Roboto
After a few months of experiments (http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2014/12/youtubes-roboto-experiment.html), YouTube changed its font from Arial to Roboto. In addition to Android, many other Google apps and services use Roboto, a typeface designed in-house at Google by Christian Robertson.

Here are some screenshots from Firefox for *******:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NiF8GEZqBQI/VVUGYYaa01I/AAAAAAACDGw/8GZuVNNhj5M/s1600/youtube-roboto-4.png

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uTTZU_YT16I/VVUC0O5qrLI/AAAAAAACDGQ/qGsT86nB3yU/s1600/youtube-roboto-2.png

I've switched back to Arial and got this GIF animation:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-65UMt0ePjGo/VVUI9zthT_I/AAAAAAACDG8/Va_A0tZsBfI/s1600/youtube-compare-fonts.gif

Here's a screenshot from Chrome for *******: it looks quite different.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HkSfl95Ro5k/VVUKox5F_wI/AAAAAAACDHI/a4azqsUFnUU/s1600/youtube-roboto-chrome.png

Browsers like Firefox and Chrome show a lot of information about fonts: you can select some text, right-click, pick "inspect element", switch to the Fonts or Computed tab and find the fonts that are used.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-JxazLUXwb_s/VVUE2wR2IDI/AAAAAAACDGk/ln5QpE4_sr8/s1600/youtube-roboto-3.png

9to5Google.com says (http://9to5google.com/2015/05/13/youtube-new-font-today/) that "the font comes in several weights, but the one Google has gone with is slightly lighter than what users may be used to compared to the Arial font. This will surely lead to some complaints about it being harder to read".http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/GoogleOperatingSystem/~4/xepBZ9Rd3OA