DroidFonts.com and new Droid Pro fonts announced by Ascender
- From: Rexjoec <rexjoec@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:40:10 -0800 (PST)
Enhanced versions of the Droid fonts with are now available for
software & hardware developers, and for creative professionals from
Ascender Corp. The http://www.DroidFonts.com website also features
information about the Droid fonts which are part of Android, a
complete, open mobile phone software stack.
Elk Grove Village, IL -- February 12, 2009 -- Ascender Corporation, a
leading provider of advanced font products and innovative applications
for mobile devices, today announced the DroidFonts.com website and the
availability of enhanced versions of the Droid family of fonts.
Ascender worked closely with Google and the Open Handset Alliance to
develop the Droid system fonts for Android, a free, open source, and
fully customizable mobile platform. The Ascender team has continued to
develop custom proprietary versions and enhanced proprietary versions
of the Droid fonts for OHA members. The Droid fonts are now also
available in “Pro” versions with advanced typographic features for
designers and creative professionals.
Steve Matteson, Ascender’s Type Director designed the original Droid
fonts. They are optimized for rendering on various screen displays
including user interfaces, application menus and web browsers. There
are a variety of styles and weights in the Droid font family, and each
font provides an extensive range of language support.
“The Droidfonts.com website reflects our commitment to build the Droid
font family into a complete and vibrant font collection. We are very
proud that the Droid fonts have received such a positive reception”
said Ira Mirochnick, president of Ascender Corp. “We will continue to
work as closely as possible with the Android team and with fellow OHA
members to further the development of these important UI fonts. Based
on the outstanding feedback we’ve received from creative
professionals, we are also happy to now offer OpenType featured “Pro”
versions of the Droid fonts.”
Droid fonts designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender CorpAscender is
working with Open Handset Alliance members and other partners to
modify and customize many of the Droid fonts. Ascender is also working
on new weights, new styles, and enhanced language support (more
language & script coverage). The newer Droid fonts are offered by
Ascender under a commercial license.
The www.DroidFonts.com website was created by Ascender to provide a
comprehensive source of information about the Droid font collection.
Included on the site are downloadable type specimens and an article by
Steve Matteson on the making of the Droid fonts.
The Droid Pro fonts consist of:
* Droid Sans Pro Regular and Bold
* Droid Sans Pro Condensed Regular and Bold (coming soon)
* Droid Sans Pro Mono Regular and Bold (coming soon)
* Droid Serif Pro Family: Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic
* Droid Sans Fallback (a font with CJK support - Coming Soon)
Today Ascender is announcing “Pro” versions of these fonts in both
OpenType and TrueType font format. These versions include Old Style
Figures, which require an OpenType-saavy application such as InDesign.
The Droid Pro fonts are available for purchase and instant download
from either the www.DroidFonts.com website, or the www.AscenderFonts.com
website.
About Ascender
Ascender Corporation is a leading provider of advanced font products
and innovative applications for mobile devices. Ascender's founders
are font industry experts and have been involved in developing many of
the most important and influential fonts used in computers and mobile
devices. Ascender provides multilingual, custom font development and
mobile phone applications for a wide range of customers including
creative professionals, enterprises and hardware & software
developers. Ascender also provides fonts for download to graphic
designers through the www.AscenderFonts.com website and to consumers
through the www.FontMarketplace.com website.
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