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Android: The Inside Story of the Android Font

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Gizmodo has the skinny on the story behind the unifying design theme in the Android OS - the sans font. :)

Throughout the design process, it swung from bubbly, candy-coated Google cuteness to a harsher, blocky techno style before something more neutral and approachable was settled on--Droid. It's the only font on the phone--apps will use it too, since it's in the SDK--with three variants: serif, sans serif and monospace. So it's a good thing they took their time.


 

Android-Powered T-Mobile G1


T-mobile's been showing off the first real expression of the Google Android platform in the form of the G1. The interface is decent but certainly not revolutionary given the iPhone world in which we live. Google's Android platform is open, though, so future iterations of the platform may include a more interesting approach.



 

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