When using Ubuntu font many users see rectangles in different places, that don’t belong there. They come from the .notdef character which in that very font has a rectangle shaped outline. This character appears when the font doesn’t contain a character for the codepoint requested. It seems like some apps use codepoints different from usual spacing characters to show empty room: e.g. with launcher pro in the app drawer long names are shortened with an ellipsis after which those squares appear. The reason why using other fonts doesn’t show these squares is, that some fonts only have an empty space at .notdef, so no outline appears. One can verify this by using the DroidSansNotdef.ttf which I attach. There I’ve only added an outline to the .notdef character and you’ll get the same behaviour as with the Ubuntu font.
UbuntuAndroidfix.ttf has an empty space in .notdef so it isn’t visible. Nevertheless, this is only a workaround for a bug that’s somewhere else.
Edit: As shown below, the real reason is missing U-FEFF in the font, so it is a font bug. Attached you find all four styles (Ubuntu regular, italic, bold and bold italic) with the added character.
20.4.12 — New version: added spacing characters U-2000—U-200F to fix some more box-char appearances.
Basically after searching a bit more i found this workaround: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16895848&postcount=269 It seems better. But thank you anyway!
Of course this is better, it’s not only a workaround, it’s a fix.
I attach a new version of the fixed font with the added glyph. At least the Droid Sans that I downloaded from Google webfonts (to be sure that I have the latest...) doesn’t contain it.
Edit: Attachment removed, new attachment in first post.
Yeah thats right. But which program do you use to edit the font?
I used the Font Creator and the output size of the font is 312kb (instead of 335kb of the original ubuntu font). Your font is about 680kb. I used the droidsans.ttf from ICS platform (v1.0 build 114) and it did contain the glyph
I use fontforge and I'm doing font design in my spare time. But I've never thought about file sizes. I'll have a look at it later.
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I use fontforge and I'm doing font design in my spare time. But I've never thought about file sizes. I'll have a look at it later.
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Nice Have you made a font?
I'm working on EB Garamond, my main project. I can't post a link yet, but you'll find it easily via google.
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h i like the font. Nice!
The font is really good!
I love Greek & Ancient Greek letters in your font (i like the curves) but italic Greek just isn't my type. I think it should be less space between some letters.
Great work
How to use it.. I am Kyrillos Rom v10.1..
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How to use it.. I am Kyrillos Rom v10.1..
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Just flash the v10.1.1 update.
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Yeah thats right. But which program do you use to edit the font?
I used the Font Creator and the output size of the font is 312kb (instead of 335kb of the original ubuntu font). Your font is about 680kb. I used the droidsans.ttf from ICS platform (v1.0 build 114) and it did contain the glyph
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I’ve found the reason for the bigger size. I’ve overseen to untick the old style kern table option. Now it’s only 273,4kb. I’ll upload it together with bold and italic.
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h i like the font. Nice!
The font is really good!
I love Greek & Ancient Greek letters in your font (i like the curves) but italic Greek just isn't my type. I think it should be less space between some letters.
Great work
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Thank you! The italic is far away from ready, especially greek and cyrillic still need alot of work.
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How to use it.. I am Kyrillos Rom v10.1..
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If you don’t want to reflash you can also use a font installer program like https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jrummy.font.installer
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Yeah thats right. But which program do you use to edit the font?
I used the Font Creator and the output size of the font is 312kb (instead of 335kb of the original ubuntu font). Your font is about 680kb. I used the droidsans.ttf from ICS platform (v1.0 build 114) and it did contain the glyph
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Thanks so much for the fixed ubuntu font. Looks great on my Live with Walkman™. Can I make a request though?
I see the same box character on the attached font. Can you help me fix it like you did for the ubuntu font, please?
Thanks so much!
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Thanks so much for the fixed ubuntu font. Looks great on my Live with Walkman™. Can I make a request though?
I see the same box character on the attached font. Can you help me fix it like you did for the ubuntu font, please?
Thanks so much!
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SoloRazr said:
Thanks so much for the fixed ubuntu font. Looks great on my Live with Walkman™. Can I make a request though?
I see the same box character on the attached font. Can you help me fix it like you did for the ubuntu font, please?
Thanks so much!
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You’re welcome!
The thing about the squares is, they show up wherever a glyph is found which doesn’t have a representation in the font. So it depends on where you see the box character. With the fixed Ubuntu font for example you’ll see many boxes if you want it to display Vietnamese because it lacks a whole block of multiple accented characters which will be added in a later development stage. The Droid fonts you attached will fail for many more languages because it only contains the code points of ISO-8859-1 which is oriented at western european languages (it doesn’t even contain a Euro symbol). If that is the problem, the simple fix won’t help you, one would have to know which characters you are missing to do something about it.
The second problem is: what is the license of the fonts? There’s no licence information so it’s not clear if one may change anything about the font.
There’s an Android logo font which contains the FEFF character and many more (incl. greek and cyrillic): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3771562&postcount=86 — perhaps this helps.
Thanks to both of you guys!
I can't remember which site I downloaded the font from but its really clean compared to the android logo font so I liked it.
New version as reaction on more box-sightings in the Kyrillos Rom thread. In fact the character U-2009 (thin space) was missing. I added the whole block of (non)spacing characters from U-2000 up to U-200F.
Non-vietnamese UI-elements should hardly show boxes again.
For downloads visit first post.
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I'm working on EB Garamond, my main project. I can't post a link yet, but you'll find it easily via google.
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could you add these chars too:
ČŠŽčšž
i mean to EB Garamond font u made?
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could you add these chars too:
ČŠŽčšž
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They are already present in the font. If you look at the specimen (https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond/blob/master/specimen/Specimen.pdf?raw=true) on p.3 you find a czech example that shows all three of them (at least in lowercase).
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They are already present in the font. If you look at the specimen (https://github.com/georgd/EB-Garamond/blob/master/specimen/Specimen.pdf?raw=true) on p.3 you find a czech example that shows all three of them (at least in lowercase).
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thanks for reply & linky...i like ur font very much
edit: @ggdu....is the font itself avaliable for download allready?
that would be nice
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Based on work by JMRRJMRR at this link:
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I've managed to do something similar with QVGA and I like it much better than the hexagon grid.
1. To use the original version, copy the contents of StartMenuList.zip to the \Windows folder.
2. To use the easy cab version from witschey, simply copy and run "Single List Start Menu - Titanium.cab" on your device
3. To use drkfngthdragnlrd's modified cpr's (in case you want to experiment), copy the selected files from "Titanium Start Menu.zip." You then have a choice of page scrolling or line scrolling.
4. Another cab is to be found in Post 68, again from drkfngthdragnlrd
5. Another version (cab) from witschey is in Post 83
Backup your exsiting files first!
Screenshots attached.
Update added 23-Jul-09 includes a working selection "halo" round the active icon. I like it. For this one, just copy the contents of StartMenuList2.zip to your \Windows folder and restart.
New update added 31-Aug-09 based on great work from witschey and drkfngthdragnlrd's. Please take a look at post 84 and post 88 for the details.
Looks great.. way more functional than the hexagon menu too.
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Looks great.. way more functional than the hexagon menu too.
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Really??I only see 6 icons,with honeycomb i would at least have 9 icons 12 with the 4 row update...
Nice work looks good,it would be great if you could add 2 columns side by side,instead of 6 icons you would have 12 and it would still be very finger friendly.
Edit:icons names would be below icons in a smaller font size.
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Really??I only see 6 icons,with honeycomb i would at least have 9 icons 12 with the 4 row update...
Nice work looks good,it would be great if you could add 2 columns side by side,instead of 6 icons you would have 12 and it would still be very finger friendly.
Edit:icons names would be below icons in a smaller font size.
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You can do that but because it forces a hexagon arrangement the second item in the row would appear below and to the right of the first.
I agree that you get more icons with the hexagon - it's just I find it hard to look up or down hexagons having got so used to columns and rows. The hexagon just looks untidy to me and this seems to be the only way to get some order.
An option could be to reduce the height of the rows and have, say 12 rows instead of 6. I like this as it is, though, especially as I can put icons in logical groups like media, games etc and it's very finger-friendly.
Thanks for the feedback
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I agree that you get more icons with the hexagon - it's just I find it hard to look up or down hexagons having got so used to columns and rows. The hexagon just looks untidy to me and this seems to be the only way to get some order.
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Our eyes are trained to scan horizontally or vertically but not diagonally.
The honeycomb structure is indeed the most finger friendly one, but it's not user frinedly as it does look messy and unstructured.
Sascha
i play a little bit with your cpr...
result :
May I ask for VGA version of it? If there is one and I probably missed it than I am sorry.
you may wanna concider doing wvga also, people in blackstone forum would be happy if i knew how id do it myself
lesscro, could you post your edited .cpr please? that looks great
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i play a little bit with your cpr...
result :
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Exactly what i was talking about...very nice.
I like lesscro's version. We need a cab file for that and to put it in the WM6.5 plugins thread.
Start Menu v2
Try this cab ! Designed to QVGA device ! 240x320 only !
Thanks Lesscro!
wow lesscro ! can you please upload that ?
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wow lesscro ! can you please upload that ?
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He already did. look above the Package is a link.
Olioaglio
Could someone upload that .cab to 4shared? All i have is my phone and it wont download from where its posted.
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Could someone upload that .cab to 4shared? All i have is my phone and it wont download from where its posted.
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Here you are
LeSScro_Start_Menu_v2.cab
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Here you are
LeSScro_Start_Menu_v2.cab
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Thank you very much!!
Its really nice but I would like to make the icons and fonts a bit larger. What will I have to change in the CPR file to do this?
thanks Lesscro, works great ^_^
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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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
I would be ever so grateful if you could take a screen shot of the following word displayed on your phone, and post it in a reply on here. I'm giving you a noble excuse to try out that fancy new quickmemo feature of yours . Please also include if you're on stock or The Base. I'm on The Base v0.7.1 and would like to know if it also effects stock.
نانسي
If you're an Arabic speaker (a bit of a long shot on these forums, I know ), here's the TL;DR - س is displaying as ش when it's in the middle of the word.
If you don't speak Arabic but are still curious as to what this is all about, here's a short description. Arabic is written a bit like English cursive. The shape of a letter changes based on whether it appears at the beginning, middle or end of the word. For some reason, on my phone the letter "s" is erroneously rendering as the letter "sh", but only when it's in the middle of a word. So "Johnson" shows up as "Johnshon". As you can imagine, this is quite annoying...
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Hey I'm on stock and subsequently also speak Arabic . Your long shot was received. And it is incorrect on my screen as well and I am bone stock.
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The Base. 0.7.1
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Hey I'm on stock and subsequently also speak Arabic . Your long shot was received. And it is incorrect on my screen as well and I am bone stock.
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Bummer. I was hoping it was just a bug that popped up in The Base that could easily be fixed, but it appears it's a bug in LG's stock Android 4.0.4. I found this post where a user is having the same problem with an LG Motion 4G...
My boyfriend would raise hell if he found that LG ****ed up the Arabic language. xD
/Uninstalls and hides phone.
Well, I managed to fix this! Someone in the IRC channel suggested I try changing the font and it really is that simple. Just find any Arabic ttf font, rename it to LG_Arabic.ttf, put it into /system/fonts (requires root) and reboot your phone. If anyone finds a good Arabic font, let me know.
Personally, I kind of like the LG font. So I just opened the original LG_Arabic.ttf in a font editor and deleted the extra three dots above U+FEB4 that aren't supposed to be there. I've attatched the modified version if anyone is interested.
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Well, I managed to fix this! Someone in the IRC channel suggested I try changing the font and it really is that simple. Just find any Arabic ttf font, rename it to LG_Arabic.ttf, put it into /system/fonts (requires root) and reboot your phone. If anyone finds a good Arabic font, let me know.
Personally, I kind of like the LG font. So I just opened the original LG_Arabic.ttf in a font editor and deleted the extra three dots above U+FEB4 that aren't supposed to be there. I've attached the modified version if anyone is interested.
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Thanks for the tip
guys to root the phone just follow these steps here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1818502
It works for the lg motion
Android Arabic Fonts
This is a collection of Arabic Fonts that could be used in LG Motion. Download, Rename and place in the /system/fonts :laugh:
thank you soo much man i have the same proplem and now solved
thank you too much man
hassa9 said:
Well, I managed to fix this! Someone in the IRC channel suggested I try changing the font and it really is that simple. Just find any Arabic ttf font, rename it to LG_Arabic.ttf, put it into /system/fonts (requires root) and reboot your phone. If anyone finds a good Arabic font, let me know.
Personally, I kind of like the LG font. So I just opened the original LG_Arabic.ttf in a font editor and deleted the extra three dots above U+FEB4 that aren't supposed to be there. I've attatched the modified version if anyone is interested.
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I downloaded and installed [ROM][ALL MDPI][4.2.2] Xperify Second Edition |AOSP| |Xperia Z/i1 for Xperia Active (satsuma). Great ROM!
Only downside so far is the font, it's just not sharp, like missing cleartype on a desktop pc. It's most noticable on the letters H and B where the middle of the letter looks bold.
Is there any way to improve this?
petervdn said:
I downloaded and installed [ROM][ALL MDPI][4.2.2] Xperify Second Edition |AOSP| |Xperia Z/i1 for Xperia Active (satsuma). Great ROM!
Only downside so far is the font, it's just not sharp, like missing cleartype on a desktop pc. It's most noticable on the letters H and B where the middle of the letter looks bold.
Is there any way to improve this?
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U can change font easily.
Just look back in in our themes and apps thread, there are some posts offering fonts to flash. Our search google.
U can also use a ftf fobt file from pc, and apply it via font changer app from market.
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U can change font easily.
Just look back in in our themes and apps thread, there are some posts offering fonts to flash. Our search google.
U can also use a ftf fobt file from pc, and apply it via font changer app from market.
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Was looking to improve the standard font on the ROM, but now I've changed the font using .ROM Toolbox lite and this works.
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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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?