Comments on: Droid fonts from Google (Android SDK)

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:13:27 +0000

Ascender just released OpenType Pro versions of the Droid fonts here: http://www.droidfonts.com . This might be interesting to creative professionals who would like to use the Droid fonts in their design projects.

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By: me

me — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 23:44:55 +0000

grab the fonts here:

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so much fuss about nothing…

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By: cosmix

cosmix — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:25:38 +0000

According to Ascender the fonts are under the Apache licence.

You can extract them from a running emulator very easily — start the emulator, open a shell to the running ‘android’ system (with ./adb shell or ./emulator -console) , find the files in the android filesystem and then use adb pull to copy the 8 font files to the host machine.

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By: Simos

Simos — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:49:18 +0000

@Angel: Check out Benno’s blog entry,
http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/14/android-filesystems

It’s in the system.tar.gz archive.

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By: Angel Veglektsis

Angel Veglektsis — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:48:11 +0000

Apparently the Download link has been temporarily removed.
Is there any other download link?

Thanks

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By: Thanos

Thanos — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 14:29:59 +0000

The fonts look quite good for Greek, except from the Gamma glyph, “γ”. I hope they are under a free license. I’ll give the sdk a spin.. Thanks for the info Simos

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By: Simos

Simos — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:06:11 +0000

@Damien: Thanks, I updated the post.

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By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:02:44 +0000

I can’t take credit for the clever extraction, that was Benno @ http://benno.id.au/blog/2007/11/14/android-filesystems

I just copied the files out from there and repackaged them.

[)amien

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