With Android 12 making use of Variable fonts for the UI, especially for things like the Lock Screen clock. Has anyone looked into the font files themselves, and how it may affect future font replacements in custom ROMs.
I am assuming Roboto is using Roboto Flex, but the GoogleSans font currently exists in Standard, Display, and Text variations, but now these should all be combined into a single TTF file.
Has anyone accessed the font files from the System?
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Here is a Roboto replacement for Clockopia, the font used for the lockscreen clock.
As you may know, simply replacing Clockopia with your favorite font results in placement issues. See this thread on Rootzwiki for more details.
All I did was follow the instructions in the Rootzwiki post and replace each of the Clockopia glyphs with the ones from Roboto. This font now aligns perfectly on the pattern lockscreen.
To install, download and extract "Clockopia-Roboto.zip" below. Then use an app like Font Changer to install the font. You'll find Clockopia in the "Advanced" tab of Font Changer.
Alternatively, just replace /system/fonts/Clockopia.ttf with the attached file.
Added flashable version to my OP here: http://kan.gd/183p
Quick work, thanks. The flash is certainly faster to install, but I like going the TTF + Font Changer route because it is easier to experiment with different clock fonts.
I like to manually do my stuff bbut to each his own. Its quicker to copy and paste old font and move new font and change permissions imo. Thanks for the clocktopia font!
Great find, thanks!
Awesome man! thanks a lot! Now I don't have to settle.
claimui said:
Here is a Roboto replacement for Clockopia, the font used for the lockscreen clock.
As you may know, simply replacing Clockopia with your favorite font results in placement issues. See this thread on Rootzwiki for more details.
All I did was follow the instructions in the Rootzwiki post and replace each of the Clockopia glyphs with the ones from Roboto. This font now aligns perfectly on the pattern lockscreen.
To install, download and extract "Clockopia-Roboto.zip" below. Then use an app like Font Changer to install the font. You'll find Clockopia in the "Advanced" tab of Font Changer.
Alternatively, just replace /system/fonts/Clockopia.ttf with the attached file.
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how can i center the clock ?
This fontset replaces Roboto, DroidSerif and DefaultFont with a modified version of Segoe WP.
Originally Segoe WP did not have a full font family, so i have adapted Segoe UI to fill in the missing italic/bolditalic fonts.
I found the default Bold font to be too imposing, so it has been replaced with SemiBold instead, but the font names have been altered so it is a complete font family, and overcomes any issues I experienced in Opera Mini.
The metrics have also been changed to reduce the gap between lines, so you get more lines of text on your screen when viewing webpages etc,
I renamed the set to SegoeUI to replace the horrid DroidSerif due to issues freezing at boot, but it really is the same set of fonts.
I recommend backing up your existing font folder, then extract the .zip file to /system/fonts and overwrite.
This is easily done using Total Commander, and the ABD plugin to allow you to navigate the full phone filesystem.
Tested on NexusHD2 ICS.
Hello.
Maybe someone know the solution for applications that shows chinese characters on Huawei devices after font changing.
I love Product Sans font, and i installed them on Huawei P10 based on Android 8.0 (VTR-L29C432B360) but as you can see on screenshots. On default font is OK, all icons appear properly, after changing font through Themes application there are some characters. It is strange, but other applications working with their default fonts, system font does not affect applications.
Can someone help with this issue ?
Regards.
I noticed this, too.
I tried different fonts for Huaweis Theme App but every font has the same bug. Only the default font works properly.
The only solution working for me was to replace the font files in /system/fonts with them I wanted to have. But for this you need to be rooted.
Yes, There are tons of Product/Google sans fonts here but they all replace all the fonts to google sans which looks good, But the Pixels have both Roboto and Product sans used together in the UI.
How can I get them? The closest I could get was use @nongthaihoang unicode sans font with the headline only option.
TIA
On Pixel, SystemUI is coded to use GS for headers. The font can't do that by itself. It's like an app use its own font instead of system one. And this GS+Rbt is only applied to systemUI not third party apps.
Have some info followed by a question - geared more towards people with rooted Mi 11's:
Back when I was still using MIUI 10, then 11, then 12, they all had the same mechanism for picking the system font to be displayed. You use the font files of your choice, rename them as Roboto<whatever>.ttf (There are 20 or so of these files), replace the original ones in /system/fonts with these files, reboot, and you are done. A simple magisk module makes it much easier to bypass system restrictions to accomplish the font file replacements.
With MIUI 13 some changes become necessary, mainly because Google is now using VARIABLE FONTS. So we now only have 2 files to replace (on top of the emoji font file, that is):
Roboto-Regular.ttf --> This single .ttf now should now be a VARIABLE font, and should contain a rich set of font variations e.g. bold, italic, condensed, etc. all within this single file.
RobotoStatic-Regular.ttf --> This file provides backward compatibility for some apps that still require the traditional Roboto Regular font.
RobotoStatic-Regular.ttf is easy as it is the exact same thing as the previous Roboto-Regular.ttf in previous versions of MIUI. But for the new Roboto-Regular.ttf, I have no "variable font" version of the font that I have been using as my substitution of Roboto.
For now I have managed to download and use the new Google Product Sans font which is a variable font, and it actually looks pretty good. But my choice is still to use the same font I have been using for years - SF Pro Display (i.e. the iphone default font).
Anyone who knows where a copy of SF Pro Display "variable" font can be downloaded please let me know. Either that, or how to create a variable font .ttf file from a whole bunch of non-variable font files that belong to the same font family?
Thanks so much !!!
EDIT: Realized my emoji font substitution broke too, did some research, and figured out why. See my #3 response below
Found it.... https://github.com/sahibjotsaggu/San-Francisco-Pro-Fonts
Emoji broke too. This explains why:
Android 12 Will Get Out Emojis and Fonts From System Updates
Android 12 will get out emojis and fonts from system updates and this would be awesome. Both me and the rest of the world are waiting for this to happen.
www.whatfontis.com
Quick solution - if you can find your emoji file under /data/fonts/files/<whatever>, do your replacement there. It will get sucked into /system/fonts/
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Emoji broke too. This explains why:
Android 12 Will Get Out Emojis and Fonts From System Updates
Android 12 will get out emojis and fonts from system updates and this would be awesome. Both me and the rest of the world are waiting for this to happen.
www.whatfontis.com
Quick solution - if you can find your emoji file under /data/fonts/files/<whatever>, do your replacement there. It will get sucked into /system/fonts/
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Any chance you can share a Magisk module for these processes?
seemebreakthis said:
Found it.... https://github.com/sahibjotsaggu/San-Francisco-Pro-Fonts
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Does it contain SfProVF?
[MODULE] Oh My Font — Google Sans Prime — Custom Font Installer
Oh My Font Improve Android Typography GitLab OMF is the most advanced font module ever made. It is a collection of typefaces which are believed to improve the overall Android Typography experience.
forum.xda-developers.com
There's this which works very well (for those who know how to customize) but idk how to use it to get all iPhone fonts.
seemebreakthis said:
Found it.... https://github.com/sahibjotsaggu/San-Francisco-Pro-Fo I think he removed the attached files. When downloaded from Apple's site, it also downloads with the DMG extension. Where can I find SF-Pro full?
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Unknown.Guy said:
[MODULE] Oh My Font — Google Sans Prime — Custom Font Installer
Oh My Font Improve Android Typography GitLab OMF is the most advanced font module ever made. It is a collection of typefaces which are believed to improve the overall Android Typography experience.
forum.xda-developers.com
There's this which works very well (for those who know how to customize) but idk how to use it to get all iPhone fonts.
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It doesn't work on MIUI 13/A12.