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fonts, skins, memory

1- how to change the fonts style on Today screen ? (or for all WM5)
2- how to change skins to Windows media and dial pad without installing any software (is there any way?)
3-what is the average memory "left" to have the PPC work smoothly without any slowdown or crash
i made those question that for some of you will be simple...just give a reply if you can...
Giordano

1. Changing font style is not so straight forward (I assume you want to change the font not just the size - size is changed in settings\system\screen) - find the font you want and rename it tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf and copy and paste into \windows directory on device using total commander or gsfinder file explorers, then soft reset.
You can also fiddle with the fonts with pocket tweak - enclosed
2. Media player skins - the skins are not software just files with images - see here http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=58398&highlight=
3. Dialers - try http://www.zombienexus.net/portal/ dialers are just images overwriting the default ones - so not really software.
p.s. when pocket tweak installs its found in settings not programs

thanks so much im going to have fun with my QTEK and skins

Help
I changed the font following your instruction but it seems just become messy LOL
I renamed the font i like and I used total commander to copy in windows....now the problem is the font I used cannot correctly shown on PPC and it seems to read Arabian....in addition dunno why the fonts affect only some menu not all im quite confused on whats going on

ok i fomratted and use Pocket tweak but it chages all the fonts Except the today screen...why?
thanks Giordano

Giordano said:
ok i fomratted and use Pocket tweak but it chages all the fonts Except the today screen...why?
thanks Giordano
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lol - told you it was not easy - pocket tweak only changes some of the fonts so not good for total change. If you want everything in arabic - then you need to use an arabic rom. I had success changing tahoma font to georgia font using method described. Perhaps you will have to try a few different fonts to get a nice effect. Remember you will need normal and bold versions of the font to make the change.

Do you always have to use a third party program to change the font style in WM5??
What is the Font option in the Settings/System menu for??

freetype font in Windows Mobile? can be?

today i changed my pc font to freetype based GDI++ , it's more pretty than cleartype...
http://drwatson.nobody.jp/gdi++/
http://www.freetype.org/
so can our windows mobile phone's font change to freetype???
I hope it can be realized...

digifan said:
today i changed my pc font to freetype based GDI++ , it's more pretty than cleartype...
http://drwatson.nobody.jp/gdi++/
http://www.freetype.org/
so can our windows mobile phone's font change to freetype???
I hope it can be realized...
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English version of above page: http://drwatson.nobody.jp/gdi++/index-en.html
Taken from here... http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1215155
Changing The System Font
I haven't found a way to change the global system font (except replacing the tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf files with a renamed version of the font you want). But it is possible to change some UI font by changing the "Nm" value in the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\SYSFNT\ - Treeview and Listview items
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\BarFnt\ - Menu text (on the bar itself)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\PopFnt\ - Menu items text
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\OOMFnt\Nm "Abadi MT Condensed Light" (In my case - this font renders interesting results in Contacts and Calendar, where bold characters appear in many fields. Easy to read, and small width.)

famewolf said:
English version of above page: http://drwatson.nobody.jp/gdi++/index-en.html
Taken from here... http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php?t=1215155
Changing The System Font
I haven't found a way to change the global system font (except replacing the tahoma.ttf and tahomabd.ttf files with a renamed version of the font you want). But it is possible to change some UI font by changing the "Nm" value in the following keys:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GDI\SYSFNT\ - Treeview and Listview items
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\BarFnt\ - Menu text (on the bar itself)
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\Menu\PopFnt\ - Menu items text
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\GWE\OOMFnt\Nm "Abadi MT Condensed Light" (In my case - this font renders interesting results in Contacts and Calendar, where bold characters appear in many fields. Easy to read, and small width.)
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I think you didn't understand it.
it's font rendering, such as microsoft's cleartype, it's not relative to font...
thanks all the same...

reference:
http://www.opensource.apple.com/dar...reetype/freetype-2.3.5/builds/win32/visualce/
and
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01243.html
http://dzolee.blogspot.com/2007/03/freetype-on-wince.html

Diamond Font

I was wondering if anyone knew what font htc used for the Diamond......not the system font...more like the marketing font is the best i could explain it....
i have been altering images and it would be so much easier if i knew what font was used

Dunno what you are talking about seriously.. you are adding text in your pics?
Ok.. default font used on WM is Tahoma if I remember correctly. To have more fonts for document editing, you first need..errmm.. fonts. You should be able to copy what ever fonts you want from your Windows c:\Windows\Fonts folder. Just copy and paste what ever fonts you want to your PPC Windows\Fonts folder.
No for example if you open up a document, under Menu >> Font.. you should be able to see the new fonts you just placed in your device.

i am not talking about the system font....but the font used in the touch diamond ads.....
like the font used on the initial splash screen of the diamond

It's not a perfect match, but Etelka Light Pro with width stretched to ~125% is a close match, and you probably won't notice any difference at small font sizes.
There are still some key differences (such as rounded tops of the M, and other differences seen in the Touch 3G and MAX 4G logos). It's highly possible HTC is using an in-house custom font that is not publicly available, or are using a font similar to Etelka but specially modified for their product logos.
If you want to find other fonts that are similar, check out WhatTheFont which lets you upload an image of a logo and will scan for similar fonts.

Thank you so much.....i figured this post would get lost

Not to hijkak, but what about the font type used on screens like the dialer? Numbers and letters?
I was actually hoping this is what the original question was asking, but I see now it wasn't :/

smotrs said:
Not to hijkak, but what about the font type used on screens like the dialer? Numbers and letters?
I was actually hoping this is what the original question was asking, but I see now it wasn't :/
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Different weights of Helvetica Neue font family. A few specific fonts in the family I can idenfity are:
- Helvetica Neue 55, used in the dialer
- Helvetica Neue 35, used on the main page and in the upper titles of TF3D.
- Helvetica Neue 67 or 77, used in the original flip clock (lighter variations, like 57 or 47 are used in other clocks like Sprint or AT&T).

[Q][NST] "Publisher defaults" and typeface change?

Hello,
Is there any way to change default font when using "Publisher defaults" option in stock reader app? I can change font size, but when I try to change typeface it always disables publisher defaults. I prefer to use some sans serif font for reading so it's why I'm asking. I know I can embed font in epub file but I'd prefer to not to do it. Of course if there is some code in CSS stylesheet that will force app to use different font I can use it.

Some books have awful CSS in them.
The "Duke Publishing" books that I get from the library are horrible.
I go in and delete the CSS sheet from inside the EPUB.
There are only a few reasons why you should ever have CSS in a book, for formatting quotes or poetry.
They should keep the CSS as generic as possible.
All I can recommend is going in and deleting/modifying the CSS.

You are completely right. Before I start to read a book I always modify CSS to my needs. It only includes margins, line spacing, indentations, justification and font size for headers. But unfortunately my settings are different from those available as defaults in Nook so I'm forced to use "Publisher defaults" option, what blocks font face change. I've tried to embed font in EPUB but it always looked horrible compared to default font so it's why I want to change it to one of sans serif defaults.

Link "Malabar" to the font you want
I believe that the default font for the Nook reader is Malabar. I personally prefer a slab serif font like Caecilia or Amasis. So I went into the /system/fonts directory and removed all of the Malabar fonts and linked each of the Malabar font file names to the equivalent Amasis font name. Now when I use "Publisher Defaults", I get the Amasis font. Doing this will require root of some description. I suspect this might be possible without permanently rooting the Nook, but as I want my rooted, I have not tried that.

It's good idea - didn't think about that before. I'm not sure but maybe it will be doable using ADB access. I think I can just change names of Malabar with Helvetica Neue (my preference) and that way I will still have 6 fonts to choose from with default Helvetica Neue.

Yes, you can do it with adb access (that is how I did it). I am not sure if renaming the fonts will work because I think the name of the font is imbedded in the file, but you can certainly try that. What I actually did was create a new directory called archive (/system/archive) and moved the Malabar fonts to that directory so I could easily restore them if I ever wanted to. I also move apks I don't want to run into that directory so I still have a copy I can easily access "just in case".

Backed up and replaced stock font, lock screen clock colon is a rectangle?

I backed up and replaced the stock fonts from system/fonts. Replaced Roboto-bold, light, lightitalic, regular, thin, and thinitalic and renamed the new ones to the roboto names. All the fonts were replaced properly after rebooting except for the lock screen colon. In the clock app and the status bar, the colon appears without issues. I don't mind reflashing the rom, it's just the stock Lollipop font bugs the daylights out of me!

Pteer Griffin said:
I backed up and replaced the stock fonts from system/fonts. Replaced Roboto-bold, light, lightitalic, regular, thin, and thinitalic and renamed the new ones to the roboto names. All the fonts were replaced properly after rebooting except for the lock screen colon. In the clock app and the status bar, the colon appears without issues. I don't mind reflashing the rom, it's just the stock Lollipop font bugs the daylights out of me!
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After checking several fonts, it seems to me that roboto-thin is responsible for the clock colon, try restoring just that one.
*edit* I realise that the font Roboto-Thin is for the whole clock but have found myself a solution.
I am using Font Installer from Play to change my fonts on a rom without theme engine and after working out that the lock clock is Roboto-Thin I decided to try edit the font. I opened my chosen font with "Font Creator" and saw that there was a character called "undefined" that was a rectangle. So I copied the colon and pasted it over the rectangle, so now any character that is considered undefined should be represented by a colon. I saved the edited font and installed it. It works! Though any other undefined character will now be a colon.
I guess another solution would be to compare the dimensions of the alternative font colon with that of Roboto-Thin and make it the same.

How do u get font creator?

hizba said:
How do u get font creator?
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I've used FontForge (free font editor) for Windows and have to edit the 'Roboto-Light.ttf'... and i have pasted the colon sign at the 0xEE01 position and exported the font as TrueType and replaced the font file in /system/fonts.
Now, the big ugly square is 'repaired' ... Look at the screenshots.

qayx said:
I've used FontForge (free font editor) for Windows and have to edit the 'Roboto-Light.ttf'... and i have pasted the colon sign at the 0xEE01 position and exported the font as TrueType and replaced the font file in /system/fonts.
Now, the big ugly square is 'repaired' ... Look at the screenshots.
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You are a genius!
How could you find that it was that precise glyph which is the lockscreen colon?????
Anyhow, THANK YOU!!! :good:

qayx said:
I've used FontForge (free font editor) for Windows and have to edit the 'Roboto-Light.ttf'... and i have pasted the colon sign at the 0xEE01 position and exported the font as TrueType and replaced the font file in /system/fonts.
Now, the big ugly square is 'repaired' ... Look at the screenshots.
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Thank you so much for this exact unicode. I've been replacing .notdef unicode with the colon, but every glyph which isn't defined in a font will use colon I'm still trying to find out why some character arts like ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) render fine on stock font but custom font uses .notdef unicode. I searched for the individual unicodes in stock font, but they are empty just like in custom font. Could you please share your input on this?
PS: Sorry for resurrecting an old post :silly:

Thanks.! This saved me time trying to figure out which character to replace. I use fontforge on Linux and regenerated. So far so good, even though the font file is now nearly 100kb smaller now.

A little fontforge script that will:
- add the colon to 0xEE01
- scale the font (if your font is much larger or smaller than stock)
- convert the font to TrueType (if it's not one already).
Code:
#!/usr/bin/fontforge
i=1
while ( i<$argc )
Open($argv[i])
Select(0x003A)
Copy()
Select(0xEE01)
Paste()
SelectAll ()
Scale(100)
Generate($argv[i]:r + ".ttf")
i = i+1
endloop
Works on Linux, not sure if it'll work on Windows.