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.
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Hey guys, is it possible to change the tbolt font? With the OG Droid i was able to install a font.zip through rom manager without any issues but I am unsuccessful with the tbolt....
Thanks!
I use an app called Font Changer from the market. Its free, although there is a donate version. Just download the font you want (search "fonts" in the xda search bar and you shouldn't have any problems finding any), unzip it, and move it to the ".fontchanger" folder on your sd card. Then, open the Font Changer app and it should pull up all the fonts that you loaded. I didnt change the names if the fonts were already named, or changed the name for differentiation purposes, but this was merely for personal preference, as when you go into the app the fonts will show up as how they actually look. I moved all 3 files inside each font, but dont know for sure if you need all three. Hope this helps.
BTW, it will ask you to reboot, but always hit reboot later because it locks up when you have the app reboot it.
I use absolute system its like 99cents but does fonts bootanimations and ad blocker. Think it has a few other features but I don't use em.
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I appreciate it!!! Thanks a lot guys!!!
Just looking for font packs to flash only. Thanks will apply
Here's a thread from the OG EVO section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801160&highlight=Fonts
I haven't tested these, but they install to the same location, so I don't see why they wouldn't work.
triscuit1983 said:
Here's a thread from the OG EVO section:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=801160&highlight=Fonts
I haven't tested these, but they install to the same location, so I don't see why they wouldn't work.
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Gonna try a edify font now will report back.
Edify font scripts didn't take. Trying regular ones now
Edit: Nope
a lot of those fonts have been pulled due to infringement of some kind and that thread i believe doesn't get updated anymore.
if your looking for a certain font then thats where google comes to play. some fonts aren't able to be posted on the forums due to copyright. but im sure some searching will get you to what your looking for.
I hear font changer works but hangs and requires battery pull
If you don't have an Evo3d well ...
This flashable zip worked for me. Put the font files in the fonts folder of the zip and flash. Requires a little extra work on your part.
yeah font changer worked last night for me, it got hung up and I had to do a battery pull but the font changed. The flashable fonts don't work so take the files out of the zip and put them in the folder on the sd card that font changer says to.
Swyped from my eVo 3d
ryanalan82 said:
yeah font changer worked last night for me, it got hung up and I had to do a battery pull but the font changed. The flashable fonts don't work so take the files out of the zip and put them in the folder on the sd card that font changer says to.
Swyped from my eVo 3d
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What I have found to work REALLY awesome! not only for Fonts, but for boot animations, applications..etc.. its called Absolute System. You can look it up on google or market.. they have full versions avail in the usual places.. ;-)
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
Can someone tell me how I can make an APK so i can install fonts on my SGS2 and select them in the font app the came with the phone?
I do not want zips for flashing as I do not desire to change the system default font, but rather the option to add more choices.
I tried taking a look at some of the other font apks I have downloaded but have not been able to ascertain how they are made so that I can recreate.
I made a couple of own font .apks based on this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745345
First time will take a while till you finish it and get it to work, but once you get the hang of it, you make own flipfonts like a machinegun
And flipfonts are the ones that appear under Settting - Display - Screen Display - Fontstyle? so I can change them around without the "hack" of overwritting Droid Sans and having to reboot?
Because I have the Fontomizer SP app installed which also comes with a slew of fonts which are installed like any regular app and they show up in "Font Style" and I can swap around without ever having to reboot. And thats what I want to do to with "my own" font APK's as well.
HellcatDroid said:
I made a couple of own font .apks based on this guide:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=745345
First time will take a while till you finish it and get it to work, but once you get the hang of it, you make own flipfonts like a machinegun
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If you could take a moment and look at the thread you linked to I seem to have a spot of problems that I would be happy if you could help me with
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And flipfonts are the ones that appear under Settting - Display - Screen Display - Fontstyle? so I can change them around without the "hack" of overwritting Droid Sans and having to reboot?
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Correctomundo, that's them
Looking for fonts for your devices guys? Then you don't need to google more. I already had this link long time back, when i had Wave 525. I used to change fonts and screenlocks a lot. Take a look for fonts, you can find really lot of fonts.
Link : http://www.webpagepublicity.com/free-fonts.html#Free%20Fonts
All will work in mostly all devices, since they need .ttf fonts. You can use apps like iFont or Myfont to switch fonts.
Important : Make sure you download medium size fonts, which can fit in your device. Don't go for really big and crazy fonts. Otherwise you will see some bugs in phone, like while playing video or on a call. Time won't appear fully in them.
So have fun guys, enjoy it. Some of you might already know this site. So don't mind. Just helping others who don't know. xD Thank you.
Great Collection of fonts.
Thanks mate.
Beware you just cant use all of that fonts listed in website to your phone. there is good chance after changing fonts you end up boot loops your phone will stuck at boot animation. if this happen then you can use my font rescue zip to revert bact to default roboto fonts. before applying any fonts please make nandroid backup also download font rescue zip file and store it to SD card so if you encounter any problem you can flash it straight. you can download zip file from this xda link in original post.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2071205
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Thank you for adding this mate. He is right guys, make sure you use simple fonts. Not so fancy and big. All are not for phones. Take a look at fonts, you will find some good one. I used many in my old Wave 525. In my canvas HD they work fine too. But only simple one.
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