It looks like they are using the OLD version of Roboto. Google updates Roboto and the new one looks a lot better in my opinion. I haven’t tested the avatar letters but I’d be willing to guess a lot of these issues have already been solved in the latest version of Roboto. https://www.google.com/fonts/specimen/Roboto (look at the difference between the letter G here and in the avatar pic).
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