I’m the creator of Wordle. Here’s how Wordle actually works: Count the words, throw away boring words, and sort by the count, descending. Keep the top N words for some N. Assign each word a font size proportional to its count. Generate a Java2D Shape for each word, using the Java2D API. Each word “wants” … Read more
You don’t really need to do any of this. Go to Google’s Web Fonts page search for Roboto in the search box at the top right Select the variants of the font you want to use click ‘Select This Font’ at the top and choose the weights and character sets you need. The page will … Read more
In the purest (type designer) sense, an oblique is a roman font that has been skewed a certain number of degrees (8-12 degrees, usually). An italic is created by the type designer with specific characters (notably lowercase a) drawn differently to create a more calligraphic, as well as slanted version. Some type foundries have arbitrarily … Read more
Changing the typeface in xml didn’t work on the hint text for me either. I found two different solutions, the second of which has better behavior for me: 1) Remove android:inputType=”textPassword” from your xml file and instead, in set it in java: EditText password = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.password_text); password.setTransformationMethod(new PasswordTransformationMethod()); With this approach, the hint font … Read more
There are a number of font formats that one can set MIME types for, on both Apache and IIS servers. I’ve traditionally had luck with the following: svg as “image/svg+xml” (W3C: August 2011) ttf as “application/x-font-ttf” (IANA: March 2013) or “application/x-font-truetype” otf as “application/x-font-opentype” (IANA: March 2013) woff as “application/font-woff” (IANA: January 2013) woff2 as … Read more
You can do this using a custom TypefaceSpan class. It’s superior to the customView approach indicated above because it doesn’t break when using other Action Bar elements like expanding action views. The use of such a class would look something like this: SpannableString s = new SpannableString(“My Title”); s.setSpan(new TypefaceSpan(this, “MyTypeface.otf”), 0, s.length(), Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE); // … Read more
For 90%+ of the cases you likely want the <link> tag. As a rule of thumb, you want to avoid @import rules because they defer the loading of the included resource until the file is fetched.. and if you have a build process which “flattens” the @import’s, then you create another problem with web fonts: … Read more
Where do these values come from? The documentation for android:fontFamily does not list this information in any place These are indeed not listed in the documentation. But they are mentioned here under the section ‘Font families’. The document lists every new public API for Android Jelly Bean 4.1. In the styles.xml file in the application … Read more
Please keep in mind that my answer has aged a lot. There are other more technically sophisticated answers below, e.g.: neverpanic/google-font-download google-webfont-helper localfont so don’t let the fact that this is the currently accepted answer give you the impression that this is still the best one. You can also now also download google’s entire font … Read more
First, the default is not Arial. The default is Droid Sans. Second, to change to a different built-in font, use android:typeface in layout XML or setTypeface() in Java. Third, there is no Helvetica font in Android. The built-in choices are Droid Sans (sans), Droid Sans Mono (monospace), and Droid Serif (serif). While you can bundle … Read more