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Chris Simpkins (designer of the Roboto font) has passed away

I'm sadly posting here to share the news that Chris Simpkins, who had a successful career as an organ transplant surgeon before establishing himself as a font engineer, initially through his Hack programmer's font (a fork of DejaVu Sans Mono) and lately as a program manager peer of mine inside the Google Fonts team, has passed away unexpectedly at 51.

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