Droid (font)
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| Typeface | Droid Sans |
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| Category | Sans-serif |
| Designer(s) | Steve Matteson |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
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| Typeface | Droid Serif |
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| Category | Serif |
| Designer(s) | Steve Matteson |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
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| Typeface | Droid Mono |
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| Category | Monospace |
| Designer(s) | Steve Matteson |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform, Android. The font families, known simply as "Droid," are Droid Sans, Droid Serif, and Droid Sans Mono.
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[edit] Characteristics
Droid is a TrueType font family intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets. [1]
Variants of Droid are available to support complex character sets such as CJK in the small memory footprint available on mobile handsets.[2]
[edit] History
The fonts were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name is derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform name Android.
[edit] License
These fonts are licensed under the Apache License.
[edit] References
- ^ http://www.ascendercorp.com/pr/pr2007_11_12.html Ascender creates the new Droid font collection for Open Handset Alliance's Android platform
- ^ http://www.typophile.com/node/39036 Memory footprint for CJK
