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Google Droid fonts on Symbian S60

A co-worker has the new Moto Droid phone and it is very nice.  I wanted to get the same crisp, well-proportioned fonts on my Nokia e51 (symbian s60 3rd).  There were a few guides on how to permanently replace the system fonts, but I have bricked a phone before and was wary.  It turns out you can simply load them on your microSD media and leave the originals in the phone memory intact!
  1. Download the Debian package with the Droid TTF fonts from Maemo.org. The direct link is http://repository.maemo.org/extras/pool/fremantle/free/t/ttf-droid/ttf-droid_1.01-dfsg0maemo3_all.deb .
  2. The Debian Package file (DEB) is really a Tar Gzip (TGZ).  Extract the Droid TTF files using a program that supports Tar and Gzip*.
  3. Connect the phone to your computer and select "Data Transfer" mode.
  4. Create a \Resource folder on the microSD media root and then a Resource\Fonts sub-folder.
  5. Copy the Droid TTF fonts to the microSD:\Resource\Fonts folder.
  6. Rename the Droid TTF fonts in the microSD:\Resource\Fonts folder as described later.
  7. Copy the Digital Clock font file Z:\Resource\Fonts\S60ZDIGI.ttf to microSD:\Resource\Fonts **. 
  8. Power off and on the phone. 
You can make your own choices, but I assigned the Droid TTF files the Nokia S60 TTF file names as follows:
DroidSans.ttf  => nohindisnr60.ttf    "Nokia Sans S60 Regular"
DroidSans-Bold.ttf  => nohindissb60.ttf    "Nokia Sans S60 SemiBold"
DroidSerif-Bold.ttf => nohinditsb60.ttf    "Nokia Sans S60 TitleSemiBold"

* 7-Zip is free and can extract TGZ and may other formats.
** This may not be necessary for the process and requires using a 3rd party S60 file browser application.  You might try bExplore, see http://sourceforge.net/projects/bexplore/.
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ssuuddoo said…
hi bro. I have E50 and am kindof not successful in replacing the system fonts. I copied the fonts with the right names (nohindi...) on the card, restarted the phone, but nothing changed. I also hacked a little and gained the r/w access to the system folders and copied them also there, and again nothing. Now, there's only one place where I didn't copy it, and it's the disk "Z", but there I haven't the writing access.

any ideas from a SMART guy like U? :)

...to tell the truth, I don't wanna change the font just 4 look, but am in Azerbaiyan and they have one funny letter "É™"=schwa, that's not that well supported. I have copied the right font from the local symbians, but it didn't help.
3/29/2012 05:50:00 PM
Jason Antonacci said…
Hi ssuuddoo. I understand why you would want a custom font. The Nokai e51 and e50 are very similar so this method should work. Try installing the Droid TTF fonts first. If Droid TTF works, try an alternate font. I suggest unicode true type font "GNU Unifont" available at http://unifoundry.com/unifont.html because of the multilingual/locale support. Looking forward to you posting your results.
3/30/2012 01:49:00 PM
ssuuddoo said…
hi again, Jason. Thnx 4 the advice. I have player around it today, and GOT IT WORK!!!
The issue was the name of the font, since my Symbian uses different names:
instead nohindisnr60 and others it uses:

nosnr60.ttf
nssb60.ttf
nstsb60.ttf
S60ZDIGI.ttf (actually this digifont has the same name)

so the result is just to put the fonts into the E:/resource/Fonts with this names and restart the thing.
I'll try more fonts, or even just change the default one be editing TTF and adding the missing letters.

Thnx a lot dude, I know it's unusual in this comp-world, but U've got my prayers (I'm a monk) =D
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3/30/2012 05:44:00 PM
Jason Antonacci said…
Great job ssuuddoo. Thank you for including the file names that solved it.
3/30/2012 08:37:00 PM
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