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[Q] Font suggestions

I had an idea for a screen setup (hooray for random moments of inspiration) but I don't want to do it with the default font on my phone. The more I look at it the more I realize it's pretty ugly. <.< So what would you guys suggest in terms of nice looking fonts? I would prefer free ones, but paid ones are ok as long as the prices aren't outrageous (no thousand dollar fonts, I'm sure their out there somewhere).
In terms of preferences;
Clean and minimal would be optimal, something that looks professional but not so flashy that your eye gets drawn away from everything else. Outside of that I don't have any other real "requirements".
I'm looking forward to getting some suggestions, hopefully I'll find something to spruce up my somewhat "bland" phone.

Asking what kind of font you should use without any other information is like asking what kind of car you should buy. There are literally thousands and thousands of fonts. What feel do you want your theme to have? Want it cartoony? Serious? Clean? Minimal? Serif or sans-serif? Tell us more!
All that said, I use Helvetica Nieu, that works for me. Clean, simple, awesome.
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StyrofoamTumor said:
Asking what kind of font you should use without any other information is like asking what kind of car you should buy. There are literally thousands and thousands of fonts. What feel do you want your theme to have? Want it cartoony? Serious? Clean? Minimal? Serif or sans-serif? Tell us more!
All that said, I use Helvetica Nieu, that works for me. Clean, simple, awesome.
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Hm, I probably should have added that, it didn't really occur to me at the time though.
Clean and minimal would be optimal, something that looks professional but not so flashy that your eye gets drawn away from everything else. Besides that I don't have any real preference, but if more information is needed I'll give some more specifications.

Google for "ubuntu fonts "
Hope you like it!
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demolition23 said:
Google for "ubuntu fonts "
Hope you like it!
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Thanks for the suggestion, but assuming this is what you meant, it doesn't really fit my tastes.

I use 'champagne & lumousines'. A weird name but I quite like the font
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mikep99 said:
I use 'champagne & lumousines'. A weird name but I quite like the font
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Hm, that looks pretty good. I'll have to give it a whirl, thanks for the suggestion.
Still open to other suggestions of course, the more the better.

Ubermusic Skin - One

The project is officialy DEAD due to the lack of interest. If you would like to continue the source is on github.
A few people asked for it so download is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7692676/android/One.apk
Based on work by Thiago Silva

Pretty slick looking. A little too iPhonish for my personal taste but it looks really sharp. Like the color scheme too. Excellent work.

Love that, please keep on it
HTC Desire Z - Tapatalk

Beautiful man. I used UberMusic and would defiantly love to use this theme.

cant wait id love to use that theme

Nice Nice Nice!
Can't wait for release!

Great theme!!!

WOWWWWWW!!! That is simply beautiful. If you need help testing it on an MDPI screen, I would be more than happy to do it. This blows out any theme I've seen for UberMusic.

I don't know hor far you're going with apktool, recompiling and this hacky stuff, but if you're good with this, you might find powerAmp a better app to start with.
Basically it has all or almost all features you need, so it would be a matter of rewireing the actuall app to the new ui you want to implement with a skin.
More complicated than making an ubermusic skin, but also more rewarding.
Thing is, nobody really likes reading bytecode, I guess.
Try with the UM skin first. I'll gladly try it. +1 for testing volounteers.
MDPI HTC Hero GSM, btw.
Ah, and btw, you might wanna try apk manager.

thats dope good work bro

Really nice brother i hope test it soon now

Nice! can't wait to see this... I've been using the metro skin for the whole time, and had (cubed) before that. It would be great to see a lighter skin

Very nice, will be watching for its completion.

Any release date for this??? im actually kind of tired of the skins they have for this in the market..not a wide variety of choice yet.

Man That's awesome!
Good Job..
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I WANT IT! XD
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solarus2011 said:
Pretty slick looking. A little too iPhonish for my personal taste but it looks really sharp. Like the color scheme too. Excellent work.
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I think it looks "iPhonish" because the tabs are on the bottom. If people want it I will make one with tabs-on-top.
shiromanjushri said:
I don't know hor far you're going with apktool, recompiling and this hacky stuff, but if you're good with this, you might find powerAmp a better app to start with.
Basically it has all or almost all features you need, so it would be a matter of rewireing the actuall app to the new ui you want to implement with a skin.
More complicated than making an ubermusic skin, but also more rewarding.
Thing is, nobody really likes reading bytecode, I guess.
Try with the UM skin first. I'll gladly try it. +1 for testing volounteers.
MDPI HTC Hero GSM, btw.
Ah, and btw, you might wanna try apk manager.
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I had a look at poweramp: it would be really hard to implement this interface. Playerpro has all the elements in it that are needed for this look (minus the letter separator but that's not a biggie). Anyway I finally figured out what was wrong with recompiling. I used apkmanager. That was the problem because it's bundled with a horribly out of date version of apktool, I updated it and now it works. Beta is coming soon so watch this thread
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Any release date for this??? im actually kind of tired of the skins they have for this in the market..not a wide variety of choice yet.
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It will be out in 2-3 weeks at last. It depends on the feedback from the beta that will be announced later this week.

I like it, a good skinned widget, unless it can't be themed, and I'm in anyway
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kevin2516 said:
I like it, a good skinned widget and I'm in
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Widget? Okay I seriously forgot about widget skins Any ideas?

This is very nice, I use Ubermusic and looking forward sporting this skin when it becomes available, keep it up my friend

Customization quandary

Is anybody else just at a complete loss of how to efficiently organize their homescreens in a manner that's aesthetically pleasing as well as efficient? I'm just not used to this much space. :V

I leave spaces where I swipe to make sure I don't open apps by accident lol
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my first screen all email and to-do list
My 1st screen contains 3 email widgets, Note and calendar widgets.
I have attached an image or a link to the image
https://plus.google.com/photos/103527527678489279036/albums/5767576432424806353

I always have this problem with my Android devices lol. Even my phones have open spaces because I don't know what to put in them. Sometimes I find myself just putting a large widget there I'm never going to use because of it.
This is no exception! I have like 2 screens with stuff, and one of them is the big Play Library widget that was already there in the first place. I must admit I've become quite fond of it.

I am having the same problem too. I have had nothing but phones from HTC with Sense so I am used to using widgets and UI that are more polished and feel the same. The different app widget designs with the Nexus bother me some.
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Well, I'd like to think that my screen is somewhat organized. It's simple, but it works.
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EmilVee said:
Is anybody else just at a complete loss of how to efficiently organize their homescreens in a manner that's aesthetically pleasing as well as efficient? I'm just not used to this much space. :V
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Easy fill up the background with fish & you won't notice the space.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...wsMSwyLDEsImZpc2hub29kbGUua29pcG9uZF9mcmVlIl0.
I love live wallpaper.

[GO SMS PRO] Interest Theme

Hello everyone,
Here is my latest work, a theme for Go Sms Pro called Interest. It is still a work in progress and if this works out well I may end up making more.
Here is the link to the paid market download (there appears to be a problem with play store device compatibility as it shows up as compatible with the evo 3d in the developer console but it says incompatible when i log in to playstore and view the description....)
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...sImNvbS5qYi5nb3Ntcy5wY3RoZW1lLkludGVyZXN0Il0..
But for my very dear xda peeps I will give it for free! (Click Here!)
If you like what I do consider buying the market version! Suggest it to your friends if you like it!

Shameless Bump 1!

Looks pretty nice, imo.
Maybe make a second one, with the only mod being a white background, the white text at the conversation list isn't easy to read with the multi-color stripes.
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"You can overclock as much as you want, your phone will always seem too slow."

You mean in the conversation view but list style instead of bubble?
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Whoops, my eyes must have spazzed or something, nevermind that, your theme is A+ !
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"You can overclock as much as you want, your phone will always seem too slow."

Would you be able to change the bubble color in the conversion to the peach color (that's on the top right hand corner) and the ICS blue color?

omnomnomkimiiee said:
Whoops, my eyes must have spazzed or something, nevermind that, your theme is A+ !
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"You can overclock as much as you want, your phone will always seem too slow."
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Thanks!
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Would you be able to change the bubble color in the conversion to the peach color (that's on the top right hand corner) and the ICS blue color?
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I tried a lot of combinations for the bubble colors and the current setup was the most satisfying but ill try what you said and see how it goes
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APK updated with a lot more themed
The peachish color works out pretty good along with the white!
Thanks for the suggestions

Just three days after I publish my theme look at what the ****tards at GOSMS did!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S5qYi5nb3Ntcy50aGVtZS5nZXRqYXIuY29sb3Jib3giXQ..
Anyone else think theirs looks like they copied mine?! Although mine is not as ugly as theirs!

thesparky007 said:
Just three days after I publish my theme look at what the ****tards at GOSMS did!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...S5qYi5nb3Ntcy50aGVtZS5nZXRqYXIuY29sb3Jib3giXQ..
Anyone else think theirs looks like they copied mine?! Although mine is not as ugly as theirs!
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lol i see the resemblance but its ok, no one in the market seemed to like their theme

Hey dude! This theme looks very nice but maybe make a version that's all grey instead of grey and white, to me it doesn't blend ahaaha but aweseome theme thanks
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Love the theme. No complaints about the color scheme but the type to compose box is crooked. Might wanna take a look at it.
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[THEME]Full Theme Red/Blue/BrownGold Completely revamped 08/18/2015

This will work on any rom except AOSP and CM12. I'm posting this now so you can get rid of that stock UI, I'm doing about 3 more apk's then a much more formal posting will be put up.
I also themed the HTC 9 camera that is available, the M9 has many more features, and takes much better pics than the Google camera. A seperate link will be posted below. I did not create the Zip,and i take no credit for it's creation, I just themed it. I don't want donations, but if you can HIT THE THANKS BUTTON I would really appreciate it.
If you allow app updates for any of the themed apk's it will untheme that apk, so uninstall updates for that particular app and the theme will return, i've done lot's of app updates, and hardly ever do I notice a difference in the app.
I completely revamped this on July 26. Colors are better blended, and took out some of the Gold, and removed some red. Hope you try it out, you will be impressed Also, make sure that your main Google app is updated or it will FC after flash
Themed M9 Camera.
Framework
Contacts
Calculator
System UI
Dialer
Settings
Calendar.
Flash in recovery, reboot and enjoy.
Download Link for M9 Camera: http://d-h.st/8BRf
Link for both odex and deodex: http://d-h.st/z1IC
More APK's and a more formal post to come in a couple days. Attention to detail was a constant in making this, and it looks great on the phone. Hope you enjoy.

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This will liven up your phone considerably

will you make other themes?

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Eventually yes, this one took almost 3 weeks so I need to recover a bit before I start another one. I just got calendar done and it looks awesome, I will post that tonight or tommorow morning

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Check it out

Well
Any thoughts anyone?

musicman625 said:
Any thoughts anyone?
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My honest thoughts: it's ugly and I wish you'd stop bumping the thread.
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Ryjabo said:
My honest thoughts: it's ugly and I wish you'd stop bumping the thread.
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After some good color theory reading by musicman his next theme will look like nice Not all of us are amazing with color:good::silly:

Hmmmm
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My honest thoughts: it's ugly and I wish you'd stop bumping the thread.
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Let me see you make a theme if this one is that distasteful. you cant because you don't know how

Pneuma1985 said:
Give him a chance its his first time on gpe comming from sense 6 so huge differences....:good::silly:
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I don't see what difficulty / learning curve has to do with color scheme.
musicman625 said:
Let me see you make a theme if this one is that distasteful. you cant because you don't know how
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What does me not liking your theme have to do with my theme making ability (or lack thereof)? Next you'll tell me that I can't say "Nickelback sucks" because I can't play guitar.
You asked for thoughts... so I shared mine. If you're going to create things and ask for feedback, you shouldn't get your feelings hurt so easily.
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I must agree with Ryjabo here. This is just constructive criticism coming from another graphical designer, but the color scheme is horrendous.
I do see the work you put in and everything you have themed and you have amazing potential to create amazing themes, just work on the color scheme to make it something elegant. This is an elegant device, the theming should represent and complement that designing style.
Look at other themes posted both on here and the Play Store to get some coloring ideas. Don't copy those themes, just use them as a base for your own creation.
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ummm....
protip 1: avoid mixing blue and red [emoji14]
and avoid mustard color altogether
Thanks for sharing though, you have potential as a themer and with enough practice (and less contrasts in your color schemes) you could end up making some nice looking work [emoji106]

Musicman may not be a professional designer, but as graphic artists.... We should lend suggestions or constructive criticism to help him as he makes his way into the material based GPE rather then just calling it ugly. As @DarK_DemoN stated he has potential he knows how to use VTS and work his way through the xml, its just getting the color scheme down.

Is cyanide 5.1.1 ROM deodex or odex ROM? Trying to figure out which theme link I need to flash
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musicman625 said:
Check it out
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He f

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Everything is so subjective when trying to determine what colors to use, what 5 people hate, 5 more people may really like so in a way picking out the proper colors is tough. If people took the time to flash it they may like it, a few screenshots can't paint the whole picture.
I don't mind at all constructive criticism, but to bark out "it's ugly" I must admit set me off a bit. LP was very hard to theme, and a great deal of time was put into that and I realize not everyone is going to like it.
Thank you for the input

musicman625 said:
Everything is so subjective when trying to determine what colors to use, what 5 people hate, 5 more people may really like so in a way picking out the proper colors is tough. If people took the time to flash it they may like it, a few screenshots can't paint the whole picture.
I don't mind at all constructive criticism, but to bark out "it's ugly" I must admit set me off a bit. LP was very hard to theme, and a great deal of time was put into that and I realize not everyone is going to like it.
Thank you for the input
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you should get suggestions from users

musicman625 said:
Everything is so subjective when trying to determine what colors to use, what 5 people hate, 5 more people may really like so in a way picking out the proper colors is tough. If people took the time to flash it they may like it, a few screenshots can't paint the whole picture.
I don't mind at all constructive criticism, but to bark out "it's ugly" I must admit set me off a bit. LP was very hard to theme, and a great deal of time was put into that and I realize not everyone is going to like it.
Thank you for the input
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Do the colors you like and if someone wants to use your theme they will. I applaud you for theming LP. Nice work.
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treIII said:
Do the colors you like and if someone wants to use your theme they will. I applaud you for theming LP. Nice work.
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Thanks, much appreciated

I was just flipping through here to see if I could locate a theme for stock rom. Ha. Tks bud!! Gonna give it a go!
Update after flash: I'm on stock LMY47Z light rom here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3059493 and dialer and settings fc won't allow me to access them..theme looks awesome though!!
Using the odex theme as rom I'm on is odexed..