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Change GMAIL font? Possible?

is it possible to change the default font size of Gmail app? sth like change value in xml's font tag, the default font size is too small for me, why it cannot behave like browser where u can zoom in and out?
The ppls working in google must all have very good eye sight, all the default font size is small for example gmail , calendar, etc and also the google search results screen in the browser is locked and not allow zoom in.

FONT SIZE (personalize): what is it for? it does not change anything on my hd2

What is the setting for in "personilize/FONT"?
I can change there the size but i do not see any effect in the user interface.
how can i make the fonts of the user interface bigger?

Open a word document, type something, look at the font size.
Now close it, change the font settings, reopen the word document, voila! changed. Most things have their font set by the application, (i.e manilla) so they ignore the system font settings.

mostly in wm apps i.e open wm contacts, email etc.

thnaks. i'd like to have a bigger font for the user interface SENSE, also for contacts, sms writing and everything that's possible.
with "personalize/font" no one of those given changes at all on my hd2.
Can i change the font of manila somewhere? i do not see where. it'd be great to give me a hint on that

Font display capability of the default browser

The browser is only capable of displaying one type of font no matter what fonts the webpage uses. Is there a way to make it display the proper fonts intended by the webpage?

[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.