[Q] Custom font on rooted Droid X not working in bold - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I have a rooted Droid X which I'm trying (somewhat successfully) to change the fonts used by the OS. I'm using Type Fresh to rename custom fonts to DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf. It works with every single font I've tried with the exception of one (the one that I really want). Basically it works perfectly except any bold text comes up as extremely blurry and choppy, and just looks really bad in general. I've tried 5 other fonts and they all work fine in bold and regular.
Here's the link to the font. Is there anything special about this font that would make it work incorrectly, only in bold?
Well, never mind, I can't link because this is a new account on this site. You can find it by going to dafont.com and searching for Prototype.

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Larger font??

Has anyone figured out how to use a bigger system font on this phone? I tried the older font zip from the OG but the install fails.
The higher resolution in the 3d is nice, but the tiny system font is a problem for me.
Copy the fonts in using root explorer and change permissions to match the others.
You could raise the dpi, I don't know what it would look like though. I tried changing the font using that same method myself and the phone crashes on boot up. I didn't change the permissions, I didn't think I had to.
Flash the single font file
Those of us that just recently started needed reading glasses can sympathize.
Download Font Changer from the Market. It's pretty idiot proof as it always allows a reinstall of the default system font if you screw things up. Has a great "preview" feature that lets you see just how big the fonts are to install. It doesn't specifically say the 3D is supported but I can confirm it works with a rooted ViperROM. I didn't need to do any of the renaming things either.
Good collection of free fonts from here. Just download them and unzip the .ttf files to the .fontchanger directory on the SD card.:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/
Experimented with a few different fonts, a couple of the "bigger" fonts would be cut off on the bottom or top depending on what application I was in. I ended up settling with the Luxi-Sans font and am pretty happy with it. Don't need my glasses scrolling through my call directory anymore!
Here's the direct link to the Luxi-Sans font I'm using:
http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/download/Luxi-Sans
Rydah805 said:
Copy the fonts in using root explorer and change permissions to match the others.
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Thanks for the information guys!
I will try these ideas.
Rydah805, would you describe in more detail how to do the above?
Thanks again.

[Q] Rectangles instead of characters with Ubuntu Font

Hi everyone,
while I'm customizing my O1, I wanted to change the font.
So googling around I've found and wanted to try the ubuntu font.
All went well with fontchanger and a reboot, but now I have a problem: in long app titles, for example, little rectangles are shown after the three dots, looking ugly.
Looking around xda I've found another user with the same problem, but no fix.
I have even changed manually the other Droidxxxxx font with the same from ubuntu, the one remaining are the droidhebrew and droidthai, but all still the same.
Can someone give me an hand?
m4dbra1n said:
Hi everyone,
while I'm customizing my O1, I wanted to change the font.
So googling around I've found and wanted to try the ubuntu font.
All went well with fontchanger and a reboot, but now I have a problem: in long app titles, for example, little rectangles are shown after the three dots, looking ugly.
Looking around xda I've found another user with the same problem, but no fix.
I have even changed manually the other Droidxxxxx font with the same from ubuntu, the one remaining are the droidhebrew and droidthai, but all still the same.
Can someone give me an hand?
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I have that tried to and give up ... it doesnt matter what TTF you use, we
ends up with these ugly rectangles. maybe there is a TTF problem with pure android fonts and "windows/mac/linux" - fonts?
Happened to me to with the same font. I don't know why it happens.
It's really a pity because I like the look of this font on O1
Thanks anyway, I will look around for a possible fix and if i find it I'll publish it here too
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It's only a problem with some fonts. It all hapens because there are different types of fonts - for example Verdana and Tahoma are very often used in web pages and shouldn't display rectangles as they support almost all languages and characters, ALGERIAN and Pieces of Eight are design fonts and should display boxes in almost all occasions and Segoe UI and Ubuntu are interface fonts which means there should not be any problem with them.
I am currently using Segoe UI (Proprietary font, you can copy it from Windows Vista or 7 (or Windows 8 if you are a prerelease maniac)) and I have absolutely no squares or boxes or question marks - all because I am using only the default font. Not bold or semibold or italic, because the other ones give me boxes in rare occasions.
I'll try to find a fix for the Ubuntu font. I'll probably just search for a Ubuntu font where all boxes are replaced with emply spaces.
Edit: Just visited http://font.ubuntu.com and downloaded the fonts... applied the Light version (Ubuntu-L from the archive) and everything worked fine. It's maybe due to a version change or some other glitch... By the way, the standart Ubuntu font (Ubuntu-R) worked fine too. I've attached the fonts just in case you are too lazy to download the whole archive... Just remove the .docx extension.
Ianis G. Vasilev said:
... Just visited http://font.ubuntu.com and downloaded the fonts... applied the Light version (Ubuntu-L from the archive) and everything worked fine. It's maybe due to a version change or some other glitch... By the way, the standart Ubuntu font (Ubuntu-R) worked fine too. I've attached the fonts just in case you are too lazy to download the whole archive... Just remove the .docx extension.
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Well Ianis G. Vasilev, I'm not so noob: I've downloaded the latest whole font archive (0.80) with all the fonts inside: Medium, Regular, Italic and so on... Then with Font Changer I've applied only Ubuntu-R(egular) to see how it could look. After reboot all seems to be ok, but when I've opened Titanium Backup I noticed the little rectangles in trunked names after the 3 dots. So I've manually set the other .ttf from the advanced section of Font Changer, then reboot, but nothing changed. For me it's strange that some characters are missing from the Ubuntu font, since it's used all over the world with its distro, so I decided to ask here.
Now I can only try other font, with displeasure since I really like the look of the Ubuntu font on O1. And yes, I'm not the only one as you can see some posts above and from some search on XDA...
I think I'm coming back to the 300 fonts thread and start to look for other nice font to use instead of the stock
Hi all,
this is my first post in xda-developers. Rectangle shape means, that operating system is trying to display some character, but there is no glyph shape defined for that character inside ttf file. In this case operating system displays glyph shape of .notdef glyph. And .notdef glyph is usually defined as empty rectangle.
Simple solution is to change .notdef glyph in ttf file, so it does not contain any shape. I've prepared two ubuntu font files for you - Ubuntu-Light.ttf and Ubuntu-Regular.ttf, because I've found these two most aesthetics replacement for stock android DroidSans.ttf and DroidSans-Bold.ttf
Just for record - both fonts are from ubuntu font pack version 0.80

Gmail inbox becoming bold with new messages

I noticed recently that when I receive a new Gmail message, the new message is highlighted and bold, etc. just like normal...but every other message in my inbox is also bolded. And once I read the message and I have ZERO new messages, everything remains bold until the app is either force closed or ends by itself (by Android multitasking or whatever).
I thought it was due to the ICS theme I'm using, but I'm seeing now that every theme is doing this...I also installed the Roboto font sometime before the ICS theme, so maybe that's it? I used the font from the Font Installer app in the market.
I tried searching for more info, but it doesn't seem anyone has this problem. I've deleted data/uninstalled and reinstalled the Gmail app a few times and it still winds up happening. At first I thought it happened randomly, but I'm pretty sure I've narrowed it down to only when I get new emails.
Not a big problem, but annoying nonetheless. Does anyone know what could cause this and/or how to fix?
Having the same issue as well. Running the ICS theme by Sonny on CM7. I also installed the Roboto font. Kind of weird though I didn't notice this right off though. Seems like it took a few days after installing the ICS theme before it happened to me.
A fix would be nice, but as you said it's not a huge issue, but I'm curios as well as to the cause.
PacerguyDon said:
Having the same issue as well. Running the ICS theme by Sonny on CM7. I also installed the Roboto font. Kind of weird though I didn't notice this right off though. Seems like it took a few days after installing the ICS theme before it happened to me.
A fix would be nice, but as you said it's not a huge issue, but I'm curios as well as to the cause.
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Which Roboto are you using? Did you use a Market app to install it or a CWM zip or something?
I used the font installer included in Rom Toolbox, I do believe it's the same as Font Installer on the market by Jrummy (uses the same storage location on the Sd Card anyway)
To be honest, I'm not positive on which version of the Roboto font was installed. I placed all versions (Bold, Itallic and regular in my fonts folder). The font installer shows me a preview of only the Bolded version, which looks like what I'm getting in Gmail.
I'm going to download FontChanger from the market and see what happens with that.
Edit: Tried Font Changer. While it does give more options and the ability to choose whichever version the of the Font I want to install, still have the same issues. After a reboot, all my read email was perfect, as soon as I sent an email to myself, right back to all unread mail being bold again.
PacerguyDon said:
I used the font installer included in Rom Toolbox, I do believe it's the same as Font Installer on the market by Jrummy (uses the same storage location on the Sd Card anyway)
To be honest, I'm not positive on which version of the Roboto font was installed. I placed all versions (Bold, Itallic and regular in my fonts folder). The font installer shows me a preview of only the Bolded version, which looks like what I'm getting in Gmail.
I'm going to download FontChanger from the market and see what happens with that.
Edit: Tried Font Changer. While it does give more options and the ability to choose whichever version the of the Font I want to install, still have the same issues. After a reboot, all my read email was perfect, as soon as I sent an email to myself, right back to all unread mail being bold again.
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So are you only getting it with the Roboto font? What about other fonts/stock font/etc.?
Only with Roboto font. I tried a few other fonts and no problems. Weird
PacerguyDon said:
Only with Roboto font. I tried a few other fonts and no problems. Weird
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Hmmm lame.. I think I'm gonna try installing Roboto from another source then some time to see if that helps. I don't really see why a font would make this happen
Ok, now this is weird. I used Helvetica which is very similar to Roboto, and sure enough, the same thing happens. Bold read emails. I switch to Caviar Dreams font, and back to the normal Unbold read emails in Gmail. Wow this is really crazy
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Ok, now this is weird. I used Helvetica which is very similar to Roboto, and sure enough, the same thing happens. Bold read emails. I switch to Caviar Dreams font, and back to the normal Unbold read emails in Gmail. Wow this is really crazy
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Hmmm kinda seems like its just a problem with certain fonts that's gone mostly unnoticed before now! I was gonna flash the roboto font in zip form, but the flash failed so I'll have to figure that out next. What other options for installing roboto are there?
Map the font in this manner using fontchanger:
DroidSans --> Roboto-Regular or Roboto-Condensed
DroidSans-Bold --> Roboto-Bold or Roboto-CondensedBold
This should fix your issues.

What is the font logo in Android L?

Does anybody know the new font in Android Logo for the future versions of Android? Please refer the attached image of the new logo. Thanks
Here is it,looks similar,so i think its right
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-CALIBAN666- said:
Here is it,looks similar,so i think its right
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I already have it. I'm actually looking for the exact one. Anyway thanks buddy.
This has probably been answered elsewhere, but the Lollipop logo font is simply called 'and'. It has two typefaces, light and black. It was made bay a company called A2type specifically for Google. It's license makes it non-redistributable but it can be extracted from the Androidify apk under framework/res/fonts.
Unfortunately, the font is not available as a standard ttf to be installed as a system font on Android. and-light is available only as an .otf. and-black on the other hand is a ttf font which can be installed on Android, but both font typefaces suffer from an extreme vertical offset that causes text to be off center or cut off throughout the interface. In order to make the font usable, someone would pretty much have to copy the glyphs onto a new font with proper spacing in order for it to look correct, which would be a considerable undertaking. Which really is a shame, because and is a very attractive font and would make the perfect compliment to the new Lollipop UI.
Lollipop Logo Font
Update:
Well, if you want something done, you have to do it yourself. I took the liberty of "fixing" this font, and I created light, regular, bold and italic typefaces. Enjoy!!!
Note, there are a few bugs that occurred from the conversion process which I will fix as I find time.
Download the font here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/fdk38fti3bal925/Android%20Font.zip?dl=0
UPDATE 5/2/15
I've fixed quite a few errors like the trailing e at the end of words, the percent sign and various alternate characters showing up in the place of certain punctuations.
https://www.dropbox.com/s/b39y3hfqw287wdg/Android%20Light.ttf?dl=0
Did you only fix the Light version?

[Question] - I want to revert to the emoji from Samsung Experience 8.5

so there are a few specific emoji that are dear to me, and I've found that Samsung Experience 9.0 has completely changed a few of the ones I was fond of. How extensive of a process would this be? Would it involve flashing back to the older OS completely? Or is there a leaner solution?
Just looking for any help at all, your time is greatly appreciated. Mods, I apologize if I'm a) in the wrong place and b) formatted the title incorrectly.
Well, as the S9+ shipped with 9.0, getting it to run 8.5 is something that will never happen. I think changing the emoji would be possible with a wings font package.
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You want to uphold your second amendment right to bear emoji?
It can be done, but you will need to find the emoji font file from experience 8.5
I'm no expert at this, but I HATE the Samsung fonts so I replace them with the EmojiOne emoji's
I believe default its NotoColorEmoji.ttf but Samsung uses SamsungColorEmoji.ttf
Just to be safe I replace both
I rename the emojione ttf to SamsungColorEmoji.ttf & NotoColorEmoji.ttf
I have TWRP installed and root. So I simply replace SamsungColorEmoji.ttf & NotoColorEmoji.ttf in /system/fonts
i want to the same but for other reason. i like the old way icon badges worked (they count unread messages not the number of active notifications).
kartonick said:
i want to the same but for other reason. i like the old way icon badges worked (they count unread messages not the number of active notifications).
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