I have a new sensation xe (GB I think but may by ICS) on the way and one of the things I want to do is change the typing keyboard font, independent of the font typed, Change both keyboard font and typed font, ideally on the fly, using external fonts, like dingbats so that they display on other receiving machines or not, be cool but not necessary for what I need.
So effectively I could hit ding bat keys on the keyboard which types out times new roman text or something.
The purpose of this is so that I can better learn to touch type essentially with dingbat fonts, but more accurately enable to input science and math symbols fonts. once I learn where the symbols are through seeing them constantly, I can change over and put the English screen keyboard back to normal and insert the science symbols by changing font on the fly.
I think this is either an issue of the screen keyboard using a bitmap to access image location of font map, or fonts locked and hidden somewhere in the keyboard apps.
In which case I need to access these fonts, install new ones to the phone and be able to change them over.
There is a good chance the font changer app can partially do this, but probably not very well for my intended purpose.
There are also symbol based typing apps but only allow use of very limited capability and not the symbols I need.
There are similar threads to this several times over but as of yet so far as I could see no resolution to my problem.
Please help me resolve this once and for all
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it'd be awesome if there was a black skin for the touchpad and qwerty keyboards.
I cant remember off hand, but back when I had my Hermes there was very similar keyboard that used xT9 that was black. Perhaps someone else can recall. I'm not sure if it would work with our VGA screen now or not.
i would like a new t9 keyboard without that options key by the backspace
I have attempted to create a black keyboard, The problem is not the graphics its the text...I am unaware how to change the black fonts to white? Maken the keyboard is no problem at all for me.
PROBEX said:
I have attempted to create a black keyboard, The problem is not the graphics its the text...I am unaware how to change the black fonts to white? Maken the keyboard is no problem at all for me.
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controlled with registry edits?
Possibly but I don't like to play with peoples registry via a .cab install of my theme's so I gave up on this project. And stayed focused on the rest of the OS. I may agian look deeper into this in the future.
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.
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... 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
If you find some fonts in apps too small, and changing system font size doesn't make any difference you might find an on-screen magnifier useful. Google TalkBack v3.0.8 r47 Beta for a version of Talkback that provides an on screen magnifier that enlarges the screen to make small fonts readable. It also enlarges icons, pictures etc. Install it, then in Settings, Accessibility you'll find there is the option to turn on the on-screen magnifier.
I find it v useful. One minor drawback, with the magnifier on, and even with Talkback off you get a voice readout of any button presses in camera...turning off the magnifier stops that.
That app is made for old and disabled people.
I am sure everyone except u is able to read properly
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Oh yeah?
Let me know if you can read the ship names in the main screen of Marine Traffic Manager then.....
im with you... Consistency of font size would've been better. Messaging even at smallest font settings is still bigger than lets say; the text when you log on facebook...
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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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?
I use the Google Handwriting Keyboard on my Android phone to input Japanese text, but sometimes it is annoying because I cannot tell if the predicted character on the top strip is a Kanji or Katakana, as they look similar when handwritten.
・For instance, 口 (a kanji called KUCHI) and ロ (a katakana called RO) show up as virtually identical.・Another example, 一 (kanji named ICHI) and ー (just a hyphen) also come up as similar.
Is there a way to use a different Type Font on the prediction strip? Some Fonts have good differentiation between those and other characters. The default ont on the prediction strip is a poor choice..
Changing the System-wide font does not work. Predicted words on the strip do not change with the system font.