Droid (font)

Droid (font)
Droid
DroidSerifSpecimen.svg
Category Sans-serif, Serif, Monospace
Designer(s) Steve Matteson
Foundry Ascender Corp.
Droid Serif Sample
Sample

Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android[1] and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform name Android.

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Typefaces

The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif:

  • The Droid Sans typeface consists of Regular and Bold fonts. Droid Sans regular font includes support for Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hebrew, and Thai support for the GB2312, Big 5, JIS X0208 and KSC 5601 character sets respectively.
  • The Droid Sans Mono typeface consists of only the Regular font. The design is similar to Matteson's closed source Andalé Mono typeface design. Taking advantage of the license under which the original typefaces were released, modifications of this Droid Sans Mono have appeared on the internet. Of particular note are those modifications that replace the plain zero glyph with dotted or slashed versions. Such modifications are particularly desired by users making heavy use of monospaced typefaces, including software developers, because they provide a more prominent differentiation between the two characters.
  • The Droid Serif typeface consists of Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic fonts. The design is similar to Microsoft's Georgia designed by Matthew Carter.[citation needed]

Each typeface has an extensive character set including coverage of Western European, Eastern/Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish languages.[2]

Droid Pro

In 12 February 2009, Ascender Corporation announced the retail version of the Droid fonts under the Droid Pro family.[3] The fonts were sold in OpenType and TrueType font format.

The planned Droid Pro family consists of Droid Sans Pro (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Condensed (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Mono (Regular, Bold), Droid Serif Pro (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), Droid Sans Fallback. Initial releases include Droid Sans Pro, Droid Serif Pro. OpenType features include Old Style Figures.

Droid Sans Fallback is a font with CJK support.

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