Talk:Droid (typeface)

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Droid shots needed[edit]

We need a shot of Droid running on the Android platform for this article as well as font specimens. --KJRehberg (talk) 20:24, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Created font specimens. --KJRehberg (talk) 22:01, 5 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

pangram jumps[edit]

"The quick brown fox jumps ..." is normally the standard, since it's a pangram. Using the perfect tense instead of the present tense results in the sentence having every letter but 's'. 98.222.61.151 (talk) 08:59, 16 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I came here to say the same thing --DavidCary (talk) 23:06, 31 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Droid font is not under the Apache license[edit]

see here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 140.112.125.84 (talk) 06:29, 18 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

This was a mistake during release, and Google/I've has promised a properly fielded font on friday the 29th of November. The accompanying file is correct and the internal Eula is incorrect. Cdibona (talk) 18:21, 24 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Temporary repo[edit]

You can get the fonts from here, at least while the official repository is down due to the kernel.org hack. DRK.HD (talk) 23:27, 14 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Unicode coverage[edit]

cf. Free_UCS_Outline_Fonts#Unicode_coverage or DejaVu_fonts#Unicode_coverage how about it? Echinacin35 (talk) 19:51, 23 March 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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Droid sans has a serif'd capital I[edit]

I think it should be noted on the page that the Droid Sans font uses serifs on the capital I to distinguish it from the lower case l. That is a relatively rare attribute, and one that some of us find very appealing. I thought about adding this myself, but wasn't comfortable adding it to the lede, and didn't see an obvious place later in the article that it would fit well.

As an aside, not directly related to this article, but triggered by it: I'm frustrated by font examples that exclude I, because how fonts handle I vs. l is important to me. I suspect I'm not alone, but perhaps I am. --KSmith (WMF) (talk) 23:39, 25 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]

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