For The Love Of Type, a book about typefaces

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DESIGNER TIMELINE 2001 Graduates from Brigham Young University

2005 Visual Design Director at Punchcut

DESIGNER BIO

Christian Robertson Christian Robertson received his Bachelor of Fine Arts in Graphic Design at Brigham Young University and then went on to be the visual design director for Punchcut, an experience design company. After Punchcut, he started working at Google in 2010 and then created Roboto in 2011 and Roboto Slab in 2013. Robertson has also helped release the Ubuntu-Title typeface. He did this through his own type foundry called Betatype, located in San Francisco, California, which is where Robertson is also from.

2010 Android Visual Designer at Google

2011 Creation of Roboto for Android operating system

2013 Release of Roboto Slab

2020 Robertson works at Google and Betatype, his type foundry.

Robertson is currently still working at Google as an Android Visual Designer and at Betatype. Christian Robertson also has a family and in his off time enjoys tending to his garden and tomato plants.

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