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Looks like a straight up knockoff of Google's Roboto font: https://twitter.com/jm_denis/status/534802341770186752 https://twitter.com/jm_denis/status/5348023417
by mfkp 12y ago
Looks like a straight up knockoff of Google's Roboto font: https://twitter.com/jm_denis/status/534802341770186752 https://twitter.com/jm_denis/status/534802341770186752
Only big difference I can see is the 'Q'.
- mortenjorck 12y agoOnly if Backbone is a knockoff of Ember. A better comparison would be to say that they both fall into the same typographic category; they are both humanist sans families with a bit of geometric rigidity; both have been compared to the classic DIN type. That overlay isn't particularly useful; it only shows that the two families have comparable metrics and tend to follow the letterform patterns common to the category. A better visualization would be a closeup overlay of some characteristic letters, or a pangram set in each.
- bluthru 12y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DIN_1451
- sammularczyk 12y agoAt first glance, they look very similar. However, in use there's a big difference between the two. San Francisco is squarer which makes its x-height seem higher. The minor variations in lettering make a massive difference when used in application. 100% not a knockoff of Roboto. They're really, really different.