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Droid
Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android (also its namesake) and licensed under the Apache License.
About Droid
Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation for use by the Open Handset Alliance platform Android (also its namesake) 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.
From the Wikipedia article “Droid (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Droid in a book
Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q605923 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).