Matias Duarte is the man behind Roboto, the newest font that will be grouped with Ice Cream Sandwich. You would not believe the passion that this guy has for fonts, especially the Roboto that you will see on the Galaxy Nexus. At the announcement of the G-Nex, Matias got on stage and talked about the Roboto font as if it was life changing. After reading more from him about the creation of this font, I’m not so sure that it isn’t. Matias writes why the change from DROID to Roboto was not only for looks, but as technology changed and higher resolution screens are now more dominate, the font needed to change as well. 

During last night’s Ice Cream Sandwich event, a new font was introduced into the lives of tech geeks everywhere. Roboto is what Google wants to call it. Supposedly built with the mindset of being “modern, yet approachable.” All we know, is it looks nice on a small screen and also blown up big like you are seeing up top. The folks over at XDA have done with it as they always do by making it available to all of you.

We have a flashable Clockwork zip, along with the font files for your PC. An added bonus has also been tossed in for Samsung phone owners that know about FlipFont.

Files and screenshots of the new font in action after the break.