How to Change the Default Font on Droid
If you're tired of the default font, this hack will breathe fresh life into your Droid. I've included Century Gothic, though any properly formatted TTF font should work. Be super careful here; I bricked my first Droid learning how to do this myself before there was a guide for it.
If you do not put a proper TTF font file in place, your Droid will freeze at startup.
Guide
- Make sure your Droid is rooted and you have ADB working.
- Create a folder in the SD card root called
new_font. - Download Century Gothic to your computer and unzip the font files into the
new_fontfolder on your SD Card. This should also work with the fonts from the relevant iPhone hack. - Create another folder to store the stock font called
orig_fontin the root of the SD Card, in case you want to revert back to it. - Open up a new Terminal window and enter this command line code, line by line, pressing return after each line:
export PATH=~/tools
adb shell
su
mount -o remount /dev/mtdblock4 /system
cat /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf > /sdcard/orig_font/DroidSans.ttf
cat /system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf > /sdcard/orig_font/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
cat /sdcard/new_font/DroidSans.ttf > /system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf
cat /sdcard/new_font/DroidSans-Bold.ttf > /system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf
mount -o ro,remount /dev/mtdblock4 /system
sync
reboot
