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@fontsource/roboto-flex
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Self-host the Roboto Flex font in a neatly bundled NPM package.
The CSS and web font files to easily self-host the “Roboto Flex” font. Please visit the main Fontsource website to view more details on this package.
Fontsource offers multiple methods to import the CSS, including using a bundler like Vite or using SASS. You can find full documentation here.
npm install @fontsource/roboto-flex
Within your app entry file or site component, import it in.
import "@fontsource/roboto-flex"; // Defaults to weight 400
import "@fontsource/roboto-flex/400.css"; // Specify weight
import "@fontsource/roboto-flex/400-italic.css"; // Specify weight and style
Supported variables:
[400]
[normal]
[cyrillic,cyrillic-ext,greek,latin,latin-ext,vietnamese]
Note:
italic
may not be supported by all fonts. To learn more about what weights and styles are supported, please visit the Fontsource website.
Finally, you can reference the font name in a CSS stylesheet, CSS Module, or CSS-in-JS.
body {
font-family: "Roboto Flex";
}
Always make sure to read the license for each font you use. Most of the fonts in the collection use the SIL Open Font License, v1.1. Some fonts use the Apache 2 license. The Ubuntu fonts use the Ubuntu Font License v1.0.
Copyright 2017 The Roboto Flex Project Authors (https://github.com/googlefonts/roboto-flex) OFL-1.1
Font version (provided by source): v26
.
If you have any suggestions or ideas to improve the performance of font loading or expand the existing library, feel free to star and contribute to this repository. You can share your suggestions or ideas by creating an issue.
FAQs
Self-host the Roboto Flex font in a neatly bundled NPM package.
We found that @fontsource/roboto-flex demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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