[Q] Font suggestions - Android Themes

I had an idea for a screen setup (hooray for random moments of inspiration) but I don't want to do it with the default font on my phone. The more I look at it the more I realize it's pretty ugly. <.< So what would you guys suggest in terms of nice looking fonts? I would prefer free ones, but paid ones are ok as long as the prices aren't outrageous (no thousand dollar fonts, I'm sure their out there somewhere).
In terms of preferences;
Clean and minimal would be optimal, something that looks professional but not so flashy that your eye gets drawn away from everything else. Outside of that I don't have any other real "requirements".
I'm looking forward to getting some suggestions, hopefully I'll find something to spruce up my somewhat "bland" phone.

Asking what kind of font you should use without any other information is like asking what kind of car you should buy. There are literally thousands and thousands of fonts. What feel do you want your theme to have? Want it cartoony? Serious? Clean? Minimal? Serif or sans-serif? Tell us more!
All that said, I use Helvetica Nieu, that works for me. Clean, simple, awesome.
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StyrofoamTumor said:
Asking what kind of font you should use without any other information is like asking what kind of car you should buy. There are literally thousands and thousands of fonts. What feel do you want your theme to have? Want it cartoony? Serious? Clean? Minimal? Serif or sans-serif? Tell us more!
All that said, I use Helvetica Nieu, that works for me. Clean, simple, awesome.
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Hm, I probably should have added that, it didn't really occur to me at the time though.
Clean and minimal would be optimal, something that looks professional but not so flashy that your eye gets drawn away from everything else. Besides that I don't have any real preference, but if more information is needed I'll give some more specifications.

Google for "ubuntu fonts "
Hope you like it!
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demolition23 said:
Google for "ubuntu fonts "
Hope you like it!
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Thanks for the suggestion, but assuming this is what you meant, it doesn't really fit my tastes.

I use 'champagne & lumousines'. A weird name but I quite like the font
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mikep99 said:
I use 'champagne & lumousines'. A weird name but I quite like the font
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Hm, that looks pretty good. I'll have to give it a whirl, thanks for the suggestion.
Still open to other suggestions of course, the more the better.

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iPhone Theme

I there a nice iPhone Theme available?
Free of charge of course ;-)
An iPhone theme for your Android device?
No.
Brakelseboer said:
I there a nice iPhone Theme available?
Free of charge of course ;-)
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Go buy an iPhone.
lol~~ lmao~~
LOL! talk about an instant beatmove!
in all seriousness. if you have a htc desire or a google nexus one, have a look for the rom called miui if your looking for some heavy customization. if your looking for just an app, there is an app called app4desk which is worth a look at
There's an Iphone theme but you have to pay like 1000 to get it because of the Apple Membership Card Fee.
So yeah.
Android Fanboys are so annoying and immature. He asked a simple question and the peanut gallery just had to chime in.
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Android Fanboys are so annoying and immature. He asked a simple question and the peanut gallery just had to chime in.
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While I agree especially considering there IS an iPhone theme. Apple fanboys (well any "fanboy") are no better and IMO more often worse. There is a fanboy for just about everything. The problem is they usually are wrong and regurgitate bad info
Personally I feel apple gets a reputation for innovation by simply taking something that already exists polishing it up to look nice and locking it down so it runs smooth. Then they sucker everyone in with the next version that has features the original should have had and other manufacturers already have.
At least when it comes to the mobile devices
Sure they are good and often better than others. But far from the best and not innovative
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Or just use desktop visualizer and hit up deviantart or search here for iphone icons.lol
everybody has diff tastes. and 9 times outta 10 people who use iphones, want say htc themes. or vice versa. No diff than windows mobile people wanting android like themes. etc.. A question is a question why not try to answer and be nice instead of throwing out harse remarks.lol
Blasphemy.
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Miui.... best of both worlds.
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lol. Try MIUI its great but you might have to worry with your battery life with that Rom lol
Oh, if you have a HTC Desire you could try this one www.miui-au.com which uses a different kernel, and to me, it has a better battery life it might work on N1 too
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Go buy an iPhone.
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It's extremely annoying when some people say this. Just buying an iPhone may not be an option if you're not in a position to do so (I wanted an iPhone but could not use AT&T due to contractual obligations with Sprint). Answer the question or move on if you can't. Some people enjoy Apple's aesthetics--deal with it!
That said--I'll reiterate what others have posted--try the MIUI rom, it's reminiscent of an iPhone's interface. Another thing you can do is to download iPhone screen shots and get some widgets that match the clock and some of the icons and wallpaper, it's going to take some work though. The iPhone's icons are out there, I've seen them but never downloaded them. Use something like Launcher PRO or ADW to replace icons. Download the iPhone sounds from the market--I have those.
The wonderful thing about Android is it's dynamic and flexible interface capabilities. You can essentially make your phone look like any cell phone interface you like, WinMO, iOS, Blackberry, etc... Ejoy this device!
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It's extremely annoying when some people say this. Just buying an iPhone may not be an option if you're not in a position to do so (I wanted an iPhone but could not use AT&T due to contractual obligations with Sprint). Answer the question or move on if you can't. Some people enjoy Apple's aesthetics--deal with it!
That said--I'll reiterate what others have posted--try the MIUI rom, it's reminiscent of an iPhone's interface. Another thing you can do is to download iPhone screen shots and get some widgets that match the clock and some of the icons and wallpaper, it's going to take some work though. The iPhone's icons are out there, I've seen them but never downloaded them. Use something like Launcher PRO or ADW to replace icons. Download the iPhone sounds from the market--I have those.
The wonderful thing about Android is it's dynamic and flexible interface capabilities. You can essentially make your phone look like any cell phone interface you like, WinMO, iOS, Blackberry, etc... Enjoy this device!
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Well said.
iClone is a launcher that looks like an iphone. u can find it in the market for 0.74€.
check out inexus
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=853544
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iClone is a launcher that looks like an iphone. u can find it in the market for 0.74€.
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I just installed this. Seems a bit twitchy but nevertheless a nice interpretation of the iPhone--best one I've seen, Thanks!
iClone
Try out iClone:
http://www.androidpit.de/de/android/market/apps/app/com.kingyo.iClone/iClone-iPhone-Theme
isnt it a bit laggy? i mean the iclone?

[REQ] Authentic Tron Legacy Swype

I have dug around looking for a tron legacy swype but the ones that I have seen have not been to my taste. I have watched Tron Legacy and noticed the digital keyboard when Sam wipes the dust off his dad's computer and wondered if anyone could do a Swype version of that digital keyboard. I have attached this picture below for reference to give an idea what I'm talking about.
Would be very cool and unique.
It would be possible but is also a bit of work but the issue would be the settings button and such would look out of place
The double line border would also not be visible at the edges. Because the letters go all the way to the edge of the screen pretty much.
Also having the letters visible on the keys might make it not look as nice.
Im not trying to discourage you, but if you are just looking for an exact theme it might be hard to accomplish.
EDIT : nvm on the letters it was just hard to see on the captivate.
Ill take a stab at it no one else does in the next couple of days. Would go nice with a theme idea I've had for awhile.
The movie was awful, though.
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The movie was awful, though.
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Nooooooooooo! say it isn't soooooo guess ill wait for redbox then huh?
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I came to this thread hoping to see that someone had posted the keyboard to download, but I don't mind waiting till someone makes one if someone in fact intends to.
As far as the movie, I thought it was awesome. My only problem with it was that it looked like the CG animators had a hard time drafting over the older Jeff Bridges face with a younger one for the flashback and for CLU.
It may have helped the fact of my liking the movie since I'm an engineering major and I got the chance to nerd out, plus Olivia Wilde (plays Quorra) is just really attractive in my opinion.
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Nooooooooooo! say it isn't soooooo guess ill wait for redbox then huh?
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Not seeing it in theaters/3D kind of defeats its only purpose.

Ubermusic Skin - One

The project is officialy DEAD due to the lack of interest. If you would like to continue the source is on github.
A few people asked for it so download is here: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7692676/android/One.apk
Based on work by Thiago Silva
Pretty slick looking. A little too iPhonish for my personal taste but it looks really sharp. Like the color scheme too. Excellent work.
Love that, please keep on it
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Beautiful man. I used UberMusic and would defiantly love to use this theme.
cant wait id love to use that theme
Nice Nice Nice!
Can't wait for release!
Great theme!!!
WOWWWWWW!!! That is simply beautiful. If you need help testing it on an MDPI screen, I would be more than happy to do it. This blows out any theme I've seen for UberMusic.
I don't know hor far you're going with apktool, recompiling and this hacky stuff, but if you're good with this, you might find powerAmp a better app to start with.
Basically it has all or almost all features you need, so it would be a matter of rewireing the actuall app to the new ui you want to implement with a skin.
More complicated than making an ubermusic skin, but also more rewarding.
Thing is, nobody really likes reading bytecode, I guess.
Try with the UM skin first. I'll gladly try it. +1 for testing volounteers.
MDPI HTC Hero GSM, btw.
Ah, and btw, you might wanna try apk manager.
thats dope good work bro
Really nice brother i hope test it soon now
Nice! can't wait to see this... I've been using the metro skin for the whole time, and had (cubed) before that. It would be great to see a lighter skin
Very nice, will be watching for its completion.
Any release date for this??? im actually kind of tired of the skins they have for this in the market..not a wide variety of choice yet.
Man That's awesome!
Good Job..
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I WANT IT! XD
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solarus2011 said:
Pretty slick looking. A little too iPhonish for my personal taste but it looks really sharp. Like the color scheme too. Excellent work.
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I think it looks "iPhonish" because the tabs are on the bottom. If people want it I will make one with tabs-on-top.
shiromanjushri said:
I don't know hor far you're going with apktool, recompiling and this hacky stuff, but if you're good with this, you might find powerAmp a better app to start with.
Basically it has all or almost all features you need, so it would be a matter of rewireing the actuall app to the new ui you want to implement with a skin.
More complicated than making an ubermusic skin, but also more rewarding.
Thing is, nobody really likes reading bytecode, I guess.
Try with the UM skin first. I'll gladly try it. +1 for testing volounteers.
MDPI HTC Hero GSM, btw.
Ah, and btw, you might wanna try apk manager.
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I had a look at poweramp: it would be really hard to implement this interface. Playerpro has all the elements in it that are needed for this look (minus the letter separator but that's not a biggie). Anyway I finally figured out what was wrong with recompiling. I used apkmanager. That was the problem because it's bundled with a horribly out of date version of apktool, I updated it and now it works. Beta is coming soon so watch this thread
IllBill said:
Any release date for this??? im actually kind of tired of the skins they have for this in the market..not a wide variety of choice yet.
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It will be out in 2-3 weeks at last. It depends on the feedback from the beta that will be announced later this week.
I like it, a good skinned widget, unless it can't be themed, and I'm in anyway
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I like it, a good skinned widget and I'm in
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Widget? Okay I seriously forgot about widget skins Any ideas?
This is very nice, I use Ubermusic and looking forward sporting this skin when it becomes available, keep it up my friend

Android Music Player theme concept

It bothers me that it's rare, if anything almost impossible to find a music player in the playstore with the holo theme being used, so i took the idea from Google's YouTube app and thought it would look nice if they'd make a music app with the same idea in mind, so i started doing a little work on the idea and since i know nothing about coding this is all i can provide...if it has been thought of before then i apologize, if not, then would be cool if a developer would take my idea and use it.
i wanna do a complete design of the entire internals but wanted opinions of you guys before i even go that far.
Purely personal taste, but the only thing I don't like is the blank CD icon above the album art. Other than that I like it. Keep up the good work!
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It bothers me that it's rare, if anything almost impossible to find a music player in the playstore with the holo theme being used, so i took the idea from Google's YouTube app and thought it would look nice if they'd make a music app with the same idea in mind, so i started doing a little work on the idea and since i know nothing about coding this is all i can provide...if it has been thought of before then i apologize, if not, then would be cool if a developer would take my idea and use it.
i wanna do a complete design of the entire internals but wanted opinions of you guys before i even go that far.
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Are you using Roboto as your font?
I also think that the search icon should be flat, and possibly implement that flat design choice into the album art/playing screen.
I also think there should be a couple more separation of elements using multiple color choices. Possibly use the holo colors.
It looks great though!
- Keep it simple
- Use one font size
- Don't make UI elements too small or too big
- Don't stretch images
- Don't use black on a dark grey background
A lot of "don't" here, and I'm sorry for that.
Personally, I would like a player that uses the Google Now design language. An evolved Holo design in a sense.
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The flat look seems to be what's in. I think what's sorely needed is a dead simple, gorgeous music widget. With all the theming that's starting to pop up, i feel like that's the one gaping hole in my opinion. Whoever does that gets my money. I'm really keen on spotify's widget, I'd like to see an updated 4x2 version of that from them.
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- Keep it simple
- Use one font size
- Don't make UI elements too small or too big
- Don't stretch images
- Don't use black on a dark grey background
A lot of "don't" here, and I'm sorry for that.
Personally, I would like a player that uses the Google Now design language. An evolved Holo design in a sense.
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it's cool, i posted here hoping for some constructive criticism, promise to take everything you say and see if i can make it better.
Looks awesome
When you finish, i will try this
My next favorite player
Ubermusic dont work on ics
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Looks amazing, I'd love a music asp that works AND looks good. My only advice would be to stick closer to holo. It looks a bit like metro ui from the mock ups.
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Looks awesome!!
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LordManhattan said:
- Keep it simple
- Use one font size
- Don't make UI elements too small or too big
- Don't stretch images
- Don't use black on a dark grey background
A lot of "don't" here, and I'm sorry for that.
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:good:

[THEME]Full Theme Red/Blue/BrownGold Completely revamped 08/18/2015

This will work on any rom except AOSP and CM12. I'm posting this now so you can get rid of that stock UI, I'm doing about 3 more apk's then a much more formal posting will be put up.
I also themed the HTC 9 camera that is available, the M9 has many more features, and takes much better pics than the Google camera. A seperate link will be posted below. I did not create the Zip,and i take no credit for it's creation, I just themed it. I don't want donations, but if you can HIT THE THANKS BUTTON I would really appreciate it.
If you allow app updates for any of the themed apk's it will untheme that apk, so uninstall updates for that particular app and the theme will return, i've done lot's of app updates, and hardly ever do I notice a difference in the app.
I completely revamped this on July 26. Colors are better blended, and took out some of the Gold, and removed some red. Hope you try it out, you will be impressed Also, make sure that your main Google app is updated or it will FC after flash
Themed M9 Camera.
Framework
Contacts
Calculator
System UI
Dialer
Settings
Calendar.
Flash in recovery, reboot and enjoy.
Download Link for M9 Camera: http://d-h.st/8BRf
Link for both odex and deodex: http://d-h.st/z1IC
More APK's and a more formal post to come in a couple days. Attention to detail was a constant in making this, and it looks great on the phone. Hope you enjoy.
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This will liven up your phone considerably
will you make other themes?
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Eventually yes, this one took almost 3 weeks so I need to recover a bit before I start another one. I just got calendar done and it looks awesome, I will post that tonight or tommorow morning
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Check it out
Well
Any thoughts anyone?
musicman625 said:
Any thoughts anyone?
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My honest thoughts: it's ugly and I wish you'd stop bumping the thread.
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Ryjabo said:
My honest thoughts: it's ugly and I wish you'd stop bumping the thread.
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After some good color theory reading by musicman his next theme will look like nice Not all of us are amazing with color:good::silly:
Hmmmm
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My honest thoughts: it's ugly and I wish you'd stop bumping the thread.
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Let me see you make a theme if this one is that distasteful. you cant because you don't know how
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Give him a chance its his first time on gpe comming from sense 6 so huge differences....:good::silly:
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I don't see what difficulty / learning curve has to do with color scheme.
musicman625 said:
Let me see you make a theme if this one is that distasteful. you cant because you don't know how
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What does me not liking your theme have to do with my theme making ability (or lack thereof)? Next you'll tell me that I can't say "Nickelback sucks" because I can't play guitar.
You asked for thoughts... so I shared mine. If you're going to create things and ask for feedback, you shouldn't get your feelings hurt so easily.
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I must agree with Ryjabo here. This is just constructive criticism coming from another graphical designer, but the color scheme is horrendous.
I do see the work you put in and everything you have themed and you have amazing potential to create amazing themes, just work on the color scheme to make it something elegant. This is an elegant device, the theming should represent and complement that designing style.
Look at other themes posted both on here and the Play Store to get some coloring ideas. Don't copy those themes, just use them as a base for your own creation.
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ummm....
protip 1: avoid mixing blue and red [emoji14]
and avoid mustard color altogether
Thanks for sharing though, you have potential as a themer and with enough practice (and less contrasts in your color schemes) you could end up making some nice looking work [emoji106]
Musicman may not be a professional designer, but as graphic artists.... We should lend suggestions or constructive criticism to help him as he makes his way into the material based GPE rather then just calling it ugly. As @DarK_DemoN stated he has potential he knows how to use VTS and work his way through the xml, its just getting the color scheme down.
Is cyanide 5.1.1 ROM deodex or odex ROM? Trying to figure out which theme link I need to flash
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Check it out
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He f
Well
Everything is so subjective when trying to determine what colors to use, what 5 people hate, 5 more people may really like so in a way picking out the proper colors is tough. If people took the time to flash it they may like it, a few screenshots can't paint the whole picture.
I don't mind at all constructive criticism, but to bark out "it's ugly" I must admit set me off a bit. LP was very hard to theme, and a great deal of time was put into that and I realize not everyone is going to like it.
Thank you for the input
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Everything is so subjective when trying to determine what colors to use, what 5 people hate, 5 more people may really like so in a way picking out the proper colors is tough. If people took the time to flash it they may like it, a few screenshots can't paint the whole picture.
I don't mind at all constructive criticism, but to bark out "it's ugly" I must admit set me off a bit. LP was very hard to theme, and a great deal of time was put into that and I realize not everyone is going to like it.
Thank you for the input
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you should get suggestions from users
musicman625 said:
Everything is so subjective when trying to determine what colors to use, what 5 people hate, 5 more people may really like so in a way picking out the proper colors is tough. If people took the time to flash it they may like it, a few screenshots can't paint the whole picture.
I don't mind at all constructive criticism, but to bark out "it's ugly" I must admit set me off a bit. LP was very hard to theme, and a great deal of time was put into that and I realize not everyone is going to like it.
Thank you for the input
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Do the colors you like and if someone wants to use your theme they will. I applaud you for theming LP. Nice work.
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treIII said:
Do the colors you like and if someone wants to use your theme they will. I applaud you for theming LP. Nice work.
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Thanks, much appreciated
I was just flipping through here to see if I could locate a theme for stock rom. Ha. Tks bud!! Gonna give it a go!
Update after flash: I'm on stock LMY47Z light rom here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3059493 and dialer and settings fc won't allow me to access them..theme looks awesome though!!
Using the odex theme as rom I'm on is odexed..

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