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I was just testing fonts on my Android using an app called "Type Fresh" and bumped into a font called "Liberation", which I'm sure some of you are already familiar with.
I just wanted to point out that it looks incredibly good on Android, it feels native yet looks better than the original font Android ships with.
Attached are some screenshots, you can get the fonts here:
http://www.dafont.com/search.php?psize=m&q=liberation
Does anyone know how to change the system font? The font used throughout the system such as in the setting areas. The default font seems very unfinished.
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1) copy the fonts you want to use, to the NC (internal SD card, not external)
2) using adb, follow the steps below
Code:
D:\>adb shell
# su
# mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblkp2 /system
# cat /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf > /media/Old-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans.ttf
# cat /system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf > /media/Old-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
# cat /media/New-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf > /system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
# cat /media/New-Droid-Fonts/DroidSans.ttf > /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf
# mount -o ro,remount /dev/block/mmcblkp2 /system
# sync
# reboot
Let me know if you find a font that looks decent. I've tried both Segoe and the stock DroidSans fonts and neither made a big difference. DroidSans looks better than Segoe though.
I found a thread with a ton of fonts. It includes previews as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801160
wretchedlocket said:
I found a thread with a ton of fonts. It includes previews as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801160
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How would one install the fonts found in those zip files if we unzip them to a new fonts directory on our sdcards? (IOW, what commands from above?)
wretchedlocket said:
I found a thread with a ton of fonts. It includes previews as well
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801160
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Great find, wretchedlocket. Tons of junk, but there are some pearls like Cardo, Calluna, etc. Actually, the NC font repertoir is not that bad. it's just stock ("system") Android (Ascender's) Droid[whatever] are bland and poor compared to refined, expensive fonts of iPad/WP7.
Some ideas about better tablet readability you may find in my blog http://fineoils.blogspot.com, just scroll down -- a lot, lol.
paleh0rse said:
How would one install the fonts found in those zip files if we unzip them to a new fonts directory on our sdcards? (IOW, what commands from above?)
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Download the zip file containing the fonts you choose and extract the fonts. Rename the regular and bold face fonts to DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-bold.ttf. Copy to sdcard afterward.
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aludal said:
Great find, wretchedlocket. Tons of junk, but there are some pearls like Cardo, Calluna, etc. Actually, the NC font repertoir is not that bad. it's just stock ("system") Android (Ascender's) Droid[whatever] are bland and poor compared to refined, expensive fonts of iPad/WP7.
Some ideas about better tablet readability you may find in my blog http://fineoils.blogspot.com, just scroll down -- a lot, lol.
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I will have to read through you blog. I actually just discoverd the Zegoe font. Seems to render nicely on our displays. I certainly wouldn't recommend anything that strays too far away from a rounded Sans style font. They get old, real fast. The Zegoe font has good readability on most all of the standard Android UI. Beyond that, it appears that B&N forces their fonts to be used when it comes to the stock NC apps and UI.
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Yeah, Zegoe (Segoe for WP7) is a jem. Some may prefer Apple Helvetica of iPhone, and then, one needs to own iPhone, to kinda share it with NC. But for me, Helvetica is getting older and blander, Segoe (a tweaked Frutiger) is well-hinted and pre-kerned. "Free"/"donated" DroidSans by Ascender is quite poor and bland in comparison.
However, choice of Georgia for a default "ereader" serif in NC shows quite a taste of B&N designers. One day (and with the advent of Android 3.0) the choice of NC fonts will be wider and easier, plus hinting will become more sophisticated -- apart from present dumb "autohint" (stuck in light hinting for many Android devices of 2.0...2.2 versions)
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Yeah, Zegoe (Segoe for WP7) is a jem. Some may prefer Apple Helvetica of iPhone, and then, one needs to own iPhone, to kinda share it with NC. But for me, Helvetica is getting older and blander, Segoe (a tweaked Frutiger) is well-hinted and pre-kerned. "Free"/"donated" DroidSans by Ascender is quite poor and bland in comparison.
However, choice of Georgia for a default "ereader" serif in NC shows quite a taste of B&N designers. One day (and with the advent of Android 3.0) the choice of NC fonts will be wider and easier, plus hinting will become more sophisticated -- apart from present dumb "autohint" (stuck in light hinting for many Android devices of 2.0...2.2 versions)
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Android's font rendering reminds me of how Linux desktop distros in the old days. It's only been the last couple of years that font rendering started.to improve under gnome and KDE. Hopefully, Android will get there soon, as well. Hopefully, some decent design will start to take place within Android apps as well. I sometimes feel like Android app designers are afraid padding and margins.
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Android's font rendering reminds me of how Linux desktop distros in the old days. It's only been the last couple of years that font rendering started.to improve under gnome and KDE. Hopefully, Android will get there soon, as well. Hopefully, some decent design will start to take place within Android apps as well. I sometimes feel like Android app designers are afraid padding and margins.
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Yeah... those old days. I was into Linux fonts/readability since 2001. Worked on png fonts for extremely fast Links-hacked browser (was present in earlier versions of so called Damn Small Linux), re-cut around 400 glyphs for it. So I know a little about fonts. Tried to be helpful for my imaginary project of Google browser back in 2004 (I called it "Googler", it should be based on Google Earth, plus geolocation URL protocols), was rebuffed, wrote about in my older blog goolocalizations.blogspot.com -- together with a Nostradamus satire on Google -- got kicked out of AdWords, with >$200 in earnings confiscated. Access to it was reinstalled at its 5th anniversary though. But no AdWords though -- anymore. Oh well. So far, my predictions in my Goolocalization fossil of a blog are pretty close, so one day we might see Google Earth instead of Chrome, who knows?
As for the default Android Serif, I think it's a shame they use some obscure Ascender cutter with its bland product. They have a beautiful (if a tidbit "accidental") "Google" font (title of Google search engine), all it takes is ordering to some ITC, or Monotype to re-cut it into a full Unicode ~60,000 glyphs, and here we go, how is it difficult to understand. When someone has a brand worth of ~$200 bln, one needs the whole 9 yards, and not just swastika of their letter "G". Android 3.0 tablets (Xoom, and whatever else) will show up with 3 mln free Google books OCR'ed, what font they will be in?
Thank you for reading this far, but don't forget to visit my dead goolocalizations.blogspot.com blog.
Stock Style Beautiful Widgets Super Clock Skin I made, should be able to get it through the app soon.
Unzip and place in sdcard/data/beautifulwidgets/scskins
Enjoy.
Nice work, keeping with the theme I like it.
-smc
How about a clone of htc clock? Would greatly appreciate it.
suzook said:
How about a clone of htc clock? Would greatly appreciate it.
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Not mine but, heres one.
Beautiful Widgets: HTC Sense UI Skin
Woah nice job! I would totally use this, although lately I've been running without the superclock, due to the fact that there's already a clock on the lock screen and the top right corner. But wow, you don't see alot of skins of this quality within the BW app! Nice!
One thing I've been looking for is a superclock skin with the same font as the D3 lock screen. My fave font! Modern and simple.
mmcgee91 said:
One thing I've been looking for is a superclock skin with the same font as the D3 lock screen. My fave font! Modern and simple.
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Do you know the name of the font used? or where i could look in the system dump to find it? I can make one using that font.
Edit: Nevermind I Found It.
gabeevans88 said:
Do you know the name of the font used? or where i could look in the system dump to find it? I can make one using that font.
Edit: Nevermind I Found It.
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Heres a new one with the same font that is used on the lockscreen. Enjoy!
Not bad, are the skins hard to make? I've been thinking about making my own BW Skins and Themes. Just don't know if I have the patience to bust out Photoshop working so much.
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Not bad, are the skins hard to make? I've been thinking about making my own BW Skins and Themes. Just don't know if I have the patience to bust out Photoshop working so much.
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It pretty much depends on what you are doing, this took me about 3 hours because of the level of detail involved, I took the system dump, extracted the apk files until i found the .9.png that was used for the widget backgrounds, and i copied every single line and gradient down the pixel, so that takes a while. But many of my others where fairly simple. It also depends on your level of skill with Photoshop and you knowledge of the tools, I've been using Photoshop for many years, so I'm very familiar with it.
Plus loading it on the phone every time you make a small change can be a little annoying at times...
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It pretty much depends on what you are doing, this took me about 3 hours because of the level of detail involved, I took the system dump, extracted the apk files until i found the .9.png that was used for the widget backgrounds, and i copied every single line and gradient down the pixel, so that takes a while. But many of my others where fairly simple. It also depends on your level of skill with Photoshop and you knowledge of the tools, I've been using Photoshop for many years, so I'm very familiar with it.
Plus loading it on the phone every time you make a small change can be a little annoying at times...
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I'll give it a try eventually, lol.. I've got 6 years experience as a freelance designer and developer. I've just gotten to the point where if it isn't making me money I don't like to open up the programs.
This is now available to download from the application! I have also created a gingerblur toggle skin to match, which is also available! Enjoy!
Thank you so much for the skin. It looks great!
1 question though. My weather skin is still in stock and doesn't look like the one you are posting.
Would you mind posting your weather skin as well?
Thanks!
travisyeung said:
Thank you so much for the skin. It looks great!
1 question though. My weather skin is still in stock and doesn't look like the one you are posting.
Would you mind posting your weather skin as well?
Thanks!
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The weather skin is downloadable through the app, its not made by me its & called tick, sorry i forget to mention it.
I'm not a typography nut but I enjoy seeing how people nitpick over tiny details. Here is an interesting blog article titled Roboto is a Four-headed Frankenfont that criticizes the Roboto design. It also includes a response from Roboto's designer, Christian Robertson.
For those using Roboto fonts now (including me), this is an interesting quote from the designer:
Note that there are still some bugs in the font that has been extracted from the SDK. Many of these have been corrected already, and you can expect to see some fixes to minor kerning issues and some diacritical misalignments.
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with the exception of the major kerning issues with the lockscreen on older versions of android i really like the font, and though i do see what he's talking about i don't agree. And this is from someone who's just spent 6 months in a typography class.
i've only used 3 fonts on android. the default fonts, Zegoe (zune hd font) and now Roboto. And though certain things look a little better in Zegoe, overall i think roboto looks great and in many cases i do feel it's the easiest typeface i've seen on a phone as far as reading goes.
I just switched to Roboto from than33's modified Segoe, which I assume is more or less the same as the Zune's Zegoe. My opinion is pretty much the same as yours. Segoe had a little bit more immediate visual appeal and I kinda miss that. However Roboto looks clean and it is extremely easy to read, which is very helpful on my RSS feed widget.
What a pretentious "writer"...I'm guessing he didn't even try or see it on a phone screen.
Roboto is a joke and a ripoff.
http://bit.ly/oHa3UN
Mull1s said:
Roboto is a joke and a ripoff.
http://bit.ly/oHa3UN
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It's not really bro.. and u should check out the response.. or try using it on your phone. Personally, i'm very 'font conscious' and find this much much easier on the eyes. I've probably tried over 100 fonts in android. In the end, no one's gonna care if the font is a ripoff or an inspiration... just what works well.
Google Sans Text Beta
In Google Design’s Best of 2019 page, Google used a new font called "Google Sans Text" (which is in beta as per the font name).
The page and the look of the font can be viewed here.
I really liked the leaner look of the font on my OnePlus 6 as compared to Google Sans and would like to share it with the community.
Currently there are only the Regular, Bold, Italic, Medium, BoldItalic and MediumItalic versions of the font and I could not find other variants.
I have made the basic correction of fixing the colon on lockscreen clock (Char U+EE01).
Two Options for attached files below:
Replace Full body fonts - MAGISK Google Sans Text Beta font.zip
Replace Headline fonts only - MAGISK Google Sans Text Beta Headline only.zip
Please remove other font modules, if installed, first before installing mine.
I have only tested and used English language on OnePlus 6 and found the font to be satisfactory for daily use.
Big thanks to @nongthaihoang for improving the font! Do check out his thread for multiple combinations and variations of the font along with the original Google Sans.
Can you make it so that only the headline font is replaced?
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Can you make it so that only the headline font is replaced?
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First post updated with headline fonts only version.
exelinguy said:
First post updated with headline fonts only version.
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Woah! Thanks!
Seems promising. Thank for the font.
nongthaihoang said:
Seems promising. Thank for the font.
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Glad I could be of help. Awesome!
Best to leave it to the pro! Cam on anh!
exelinguy said:
Glad I could be of help. Awesome!
Best to leave it to the pro! Cam on anh!
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You sounds like a Vietnamese. I like that.
What do you think of helping me maintain the font?
I'll teach you everything I know so you can took over me. I'm looking for someone like that.
Btw, I like to have GS + GS text on my phone. It can't be better.
nongthaihoang said:
You sounds like a Vietnamese. I like that.
What do you think of helping me maintain the font?
I'll teach you everything I know so you can took over me. I'm looking for someone like that.
Btw, I like to have GS + GS text on my phone. It can't be better.
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I love Vietnam! It's a beautiful country.
Your offer is very tempting and I would love to learn and help out more but currently I am going through a very busy phase at work. May I reach out to you after March, if you are still looking for an intern then?
I really like GS as well. Used it for the longest time on my phone. Lato is my favorite on PC. But I also like the curvier and lighter look of GS Text. Makes text more readable for me, while keeping the spirit of GS. It's a subjective thing, that's why there are millions of fonts and that's the beauty of customization.
exelinguy said:
I love Vietnam! It's a beautiful country.
Your offer is very tempting and I would love to learn and help out more but currently I am going through a very busy phase at work. May I reach out to you after March, if you are still looking for an intern then?
I really like GS as well. Used it for the longest time on my phone. Lato is my favorite on PC. But I also like the curvier and lighter look of GS Text. Makes text more readable for me, while keeping the spirit of GS. It's a subjective thing, that's why there are millions of fonts and that's the beauty of customization.
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- Thank you for you kind words about Vietnam.
- I took it as a Yes. Contact me whenever you have time my telegram.
- I'm using Ubuntu Linux and Lato is my favorite font too. What a coincidence!
I like GS for headline and your GSText for content. Can you send me your font (the untouched one) so I can make it fully compatible with android? I'll send it back to you when it's done.
nongthaihoang said:
- Thank you for you kind words about Vietnam.
- I took it as a Yes. Contact me whenever you have time my telegram.
- I'm using Ubuntu Linux and Lato is my favorite font too. What a coincidence!
I like GS for headline and your GSText for content. Can you send me your font (the untouched one) so I can make it fully compatible with android? I'll send it back to you when it's done.
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Have DM'd.
exelinguy said:
Have DM'd.
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Thank you. I've done it. Check your PM.
Testing the font, looks very good. Only thing is I still have the rectangle instead of the colon on the lockscreen watch.
Google Pixel 3a.
That's really nice! Maybe the future of Android 11's font
@exelinguy
This is how it may look like. (PM)
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@exelinguy
This is how it may look like. (PM)
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Looks great! Please include this!
Have updated to v0.2 with more characters. Big thanks to @nongthaihoang for making the font much more robust.
j-a-d-z said:
Testing the font, looks very good. Only thing is I still have the rectangle instead of the colon on the lockscreen watch.
Google Pixel 3a.
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Have you selected the default font before installing the mod? Did you install any other font mods or maybe themes before installing mine that have not been removed? The clock font does not seem to have changed at all, judging by the digit for 2. Can you test with the attached file and let me know please? Thanks.
j-a-d-z said:
Testing the font, looks very good. Only thing is I still have the rectangle instead of the colon on the lockscreen watch.
Google Pixel 3a.
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exelinguy said:
Have you selected the default font before installing the mod? Did you install any other font mods or maybe themes before installing mine that have not been removed? The clock font does not seem to have changed at all, judging by the digit for 2. Can you test with the attached file and let me know please? Thanks.
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Nah. There is no need for a separate zip. Everything will be fine with the new update.
You should also remove what so-called "colon issue" in the OP. It does not even exist.
The font should work from the day you install it until your phone die.
Yes, new 0.2 works without errors I think. Colon on lockscreen ok. Thanks!
is it possible to download it in .ttf or .otf format ?