American tech giant Google has introduced its latest in-house font called Roboto Serif, designed to create a more readable serif companion to its Roboto Sans typeface.

As per ANI, the new font isn’t just the old Roboto letters with some serifs, rather each letter was redrawn from scratch to create a font that “thinks about Roboto, but is a new and original design.”

The new font still uses the same vertical proportions of Roboto Sans, making it possible to mix the serif and sans-serif versions in a single design.

The chunkier, retro-styled serif typefaces are coming back in style in a big way after years of minimalist sans-serif designs dominating.

Google has been using its Roboto font in one form or another for over a decade; it was first introduced alongside Android 4.0 as the default font for the company’s mobile OS.