CTAN has a new package: droid
Date: December 24, 2010 4:12:01 PM CET
This should be at your local mirror.
Jim Hef{}feron
Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: droid
Version number: 1.0
Author's name: Mohamed El Morabity
Location on CTAN: /fonts/droid
Summary description: LaTeX support for the Droid font families
License type: lppl
Announcement text:
The Droid typeface family was designed in the fall of 2006 by Ascender's Steve Matteson, as a commission from Google to create a set of system fonts for its Android platform. The goal was to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text. The Droid family of fonts consists of Droid Serif, Droid Sans and Droid Sans Mono, licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, and available in the Android Git tree. This package provides support for this font in LaTeX. It is licensed under the LaTeX project public license version 1.3c or above, except the fonts delivered under the Apache License version 2.0. Notice that this package does not support the Droid Pro family sold by the Ascender foundry.
This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/droid . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/droid (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
The Droid typeface family was designed in the fall of 2006 by Ascender's Steve Matteson, as a commission from Google to create a set of system fonts for its Android platform. The goal was to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text. The Droid family of fonts consists of Droid Serif, Droid Sans and Droid Sans Mono, licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0, and available in the Android Git tree. This package provides support for this font in LaTeX. It is licensed under the LaTeX project public license version 1.3c or above, except the fonts delivered under the Apache License version 2.0. Notice that this package does not support the Droid Pro family sold by the Ascender foundry.
This package is at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/fonts/droid . Information is at http://tug.ctan.org/pkg/droid (it may take a day for the information to appear). We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org . For your users group see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .
droid – LaTeX support for the Droid font families
The Droid typeface family was designed in the fall of 2006 by Steve Matteson, as a commission from Google to create a set of system fonts for its Android platform. The goal was to provide optimal quality and comfort on a mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other screen text. The Droid family consists of Droid Serif, Droid Sans and Droid Sans Mono fonts, licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
The bundle includes the fonts in both TrueType and Adobe Type 1 formats.
The package does not support the Droid Pro family of fonts, available for purchase from the Ascender foundry.
| Package | droid |
| Version | 3.2 |
| Maintainer | Steve Matteson Mohamed El Morabity |