Comments on: Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender

By: Thomas Hervé // Graphiste indépendant » (An)droid - part. 2

Thomas Hervé // Graphiste indépendant » (An)droid - part. 2 — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 07:04:50 +0000

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By: Fonts in Ubuntu « My Thoughts and other Meaningless Nonsense.

Fonts in Ubuntu « My Thoughts and other Meaningless Nonsense. — Sat, 27 Sep 2008 03:40:03 +0000

[...] This has come a long way in the last 8 months; get them here: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender [...]

By: contort.com - tighten up

contort.com - tighten up — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 21:07:34 +0000

[...] Download Droid via Forbes permalink volition DEFINITION: (noun) The act or an instance of making a conscious choice or decision. SYNONYMS: willing. USAGE: Without volition I leaned toward her, as a tree is swayed by the wi… [...]

By: Droid fonts from the Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform « My Weblog

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:05:13 +0000

[...] Droid fonts from the Open Handset Alliance’s Android platform Droid is a font family specifically designed for the Android platform. The family consists for the usual serif, sans serif and monospace typefaces. I downloaded the font bundle from here. [...]

By: Professionelle Fonts zum kostenlosen Download | Allgemeines | Dr. Web Weblog

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 21:57:16 +0000

[...] Droid Font Family Google’s Android project, eine Open-Source-Plattform für mobile Geräte, enthält die Schriftfamilie Droid, die extra für optimale Lesbarkeit von Texten auf mobilen Geräten entworfen wurde. [...]

By: Crazy Monkey Gurls Unite » Blog Archive » The Emperor’s New Clothes

Sun, 10 Feb 2008 21:06:46 +0000

[...] you really want to see it in all its glory, go get yourself a copy of the Google/Ascender-developed font Droid. It’s free, and it’s available for Mac, Linux and Windows. It’s also pretty [...]

By: Eugene Zagidullin

Eugene Zagidullin — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 15:20:05 +0000

>way better on Mac OS X, regretfully

freetype under linux can produce the same output with hinting turned off and Cleartype-like subpixel filtering (this feature exists in freetype since 2.3.0, but needed patched Cairo and libXft to utilize it). Droid Sans in UI: http://www.ljplus.ru/img4/a/s/asphyx_lj/xfce_droid.png

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 20:00:27 +0000

@Kriston Because they are designed to be used on Google’s Android Platform for mobile phones that will always be anti-aliased.

[)amien

By: Kriston

Kriston — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:25:19 +0000

Awful fonts. Why aren’t they hinted for non-anti-aliased viewing?
I expect more.

By: Mack

Mack — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:52:16 +0000

Droid font family rocks! Thanks :)

By: room34.com | Room 34 Multimedia » Droid fonts

room34.com | Room 34 Multimedia » Droid fonts — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:37:52 +0000

[...] DamienG has provided a link to download the Droid font family. How [...]

By: Valis

Valis — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:24:41 +0000

The real difference is that on Mac Apple has given you a Text editor that has a few nicities and a decent level of flexibility with file formats and encodings. With Wordpad on Windows you have a perfectly acceptable font engine that isn’t being used in Wordpad because MS only tosses that in as a cut-down version of an ancient version of its cash cow MS Word (now only bundled in MS Office). The fully expect you to upgrade to Office (which would replace Wordpad’s file associations anyway) since everyone uses Office anyway, right??

By: Enlaces para el 2007/12/08

Enlaces para el 2007/12/08 — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 22:04:27 +0000

[...] Entre las fuentes anteriores destaca Droid, desarrollada por Ascender para Android. Esta fuente ha sido portada a Windows y Mac por Damien Guard. Se puede descargar Droid Font en la página de Damien, donde también esta su artículo al respecto: Droid font family courtesy of Google & Ascender. [...]

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:58:16 +0000

@Radomir: The Windows screenshot does not having smoothing disabled – it is using ClearType smoothing hence the sub-pixel precision you observe.

[)amien

By: Radomir Dopieralski

Radomir Dopieralski — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:03:28 +0000

Lets not exaggerate, Windows sucks but not that much, if you look closely you’ll see that the Windows rendering has simply disabled smoothing. Some people disable it, I have no idea why. (but Note that both screenshots have subpixel hinting enabled, which can give pretty bad effects for people not using LCD screen or using one with different subpixel layout.

The fonts are very nice, I especially like the monospace font, I’m glad that designers finally start to gravitate towards the original VGA fonts. Still, Terminus seems to me to be much better for programming and terminal, shame it’s not a real truetype font.