Droid (font)
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| Category | Sans-serif, Serif, Monospace |
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| Designer(s) | Steve Matteson |
| Foundry | Ascender Corp. |
| Date released | 2007 |
| License | Apache License |
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Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android 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 named Android.
Droid Serif
Droid Sans
Droid Sans Mono
The Droid font family consists of Droid Sans, Droid Sans Mono and Droid Serif:
Droid Sans is available as many variations, some of which are listed below:
Other variations of the Droid Sans Fallback font could be found on other language rich websites, especially those with Hindi or Khmer language support, are listed below:
The Droid Sans Mono typeface consists of only the Regular font. The design is similar to Matteson's closed source Andalé Mono typeface design. Taking advantage of the license under which the original typefaces were released, modifications of this Droid Sans Mono have appeared on the internet. Of particular note are those modifications that replace the plain zero glyph with dotted or slashed versions. Such modifications are particularly desired by users making heavy use of monospaced typefaces, including software developers, because they provide a more prominent differentiation between the two characters. They include:
The Droid Serif typeface consists of Regular, Bold, Italic and Bold Italic fonts. Other variations of the Droid Serif font includes:
Each typeface has an extensive character set including coverage of Western European, Eastern/Central European, Baltic, Cyrillic, Greek and Turkish languages.
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