[Openfontlibrary] droid fonts

Simos Xenitellis simos.lists at googlemail.com
Thu Nov 15 11:44:10 PST 2007


Στις 15-11-2007, ημέρα Πεμ, και ώρα 11:35 -0800, ο/η Jon Phillips
έγραψε:
> On Thu, 2007-11-15 at 16:31 +0000, Dave Crossland wrote:
> > On 15/11/2007, Gustavo Ferreira <grilo at centroin.com.br> wrote:
> > >
> > > it seems like the plattform is going to be free software – but not
> > > the fonts?
> > 
> > The 5 page PDF type specimen PDF -
> > http://www.ascendercorp.com/pdf/Droid_fonts.pdf - from the Ascender
> > website has the following introductory text:
> > 
> > "The Droid Typeface Family was designed in the Fall of 2006 by
> > Ascender's Steve Matteson. The goal was to provide optimal quality and
> > comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web
> > browsers and for other screen text. Ascender Corporation worked
> > closely with the Open Handset Alliance to develop these system fonts
> > for the Android platform – a complete mobile phone software stack that
> > will be made available under the Apache open source license."
> > 
> > I read 'system fonts for the Android platform ... that will be made
> > available under the Apache open source license' :-)
> 
> Dave, why don't you go ahead and directly contact them and find out the
> license they want to apply to these...I think ask first and then
> persuade to do OFL later :)

Apparently the fonts can be extracted from the binary image found in the
SDK,
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/droid-font-family-courtesy-of-google-ascender

Simos



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