How many stock Android fonts are available to code in the Styling section of the Note Type?

[Stu Guerin]

Hi everyone,

I have been using Ankidroid for over 2 years, and I've been getting bored of the default font. I don't want to bother with installing custom fonts, so does anyone know if there are more fonts (I'm using Android 4.1.2) than the ones I've listed below?

font-family: serif;
font-family: sans-serif-light;
font-family: sans-serif-condensed;

Thanks,
Stu40

[Flavio Lerda]

Hello Stu,

There are two types of font families that you can use in HTML.

The first one is a generic family, like "serif", "sans-serif", "cursive", "fantasy", "monospace" [1]. Every (modern) browser should support these five, but the exact result might differ from browser to browser.

​The second one is ​a font family as defined by one of the fonts installed on a particular device. Some fonts, like Roboto and its variants, are part of Android 4.0 and above [2], but different manufactures can offer additional sets of fonts on a device.

If you need anything more sophisticated than the generic families, you might want to consider including an open-source font in your deck, especially if you want to share it.

Flavio

[1] http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_font_font-family.asp

[2] http://developer.android.com/design/style/typography.html

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[Stuart Guerin]

Hi Flavio,

Thanks for your detailed reply. With my limited understanding of CSS, I tested all the fonts listed, and I found only these ones worked on my Samsung Galaxy S2 running Android 4.1.2;

font-family: serif;

font-family: sans-serif;

font-family: sans-serif-light;

font-family: sans-serif-condensed;

font-family: monospace;

My original Basic Note Type had font-family: Arial, but I worked out that since my phone doesn't have that font, it was showing sans-serif instead. My favourite is now sans-serif-light, so I've changed all my cards to that font now.

Thanks again for your assistance,

Stu40

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