| Category | Sans-serif, Serif, Monospace |
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| Designer(s) | Steve Matteson |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
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Droid is a font family created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android[1] and licensed under the Apache License. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation. The name was derived from the Open Handset Alliance platform name Android.
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The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif:
Each typeface has an extensive character set including coverage of Western European, Eastern/Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish languages.[2]
In 12 February 2009, Ascender Corporation announced the retail version of the Droid fonts under the Droid Pro family.[3] The fonts were sold in OpenType and TrueType font format.
The planned Droid Pro family consists of Droid Sans Pro (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Condensed (Regular, Bold), Droid Sans Pro Mono (Regular, Bold), Droid Serif Pro (Regular, Italic, Bold, Bold Italic), Droid Sans Fallback. Initial releases include Droid Sans Pro, Droid Serif Pro. OpenType features include Old Style Figures.
Droid Sans Fallback is a font with CJK support.
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