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Chapter 42: Fonts > Love the One You're With
Love the One You're With
Android natively knows three fonts, by the shorthand names sans, serif, and monospace. These fonts are actually the Droid series of fonts, created for the Open Handset Alliance by Ascender Corp. (www.ascendercorp.com/), a division of Monotype Imaging. To use these three fonts, you can just reference them in your layout XML, such as the following layout from the Fonts/FontSampler sample project:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<TableLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="fill_parent"
android:layout_height="fill_parent"
android:stretchColumns="1">
<TableRow>
<TextView
android:text="sans:"
android:layout_marginRight="4dip"
android:textSize="20sp"
/>
<TextView
android:id="@+id/sans"
android:text="Hello, world!"
android:typeface="sans"
android:textSize="20sp"
/>
</TableRow>
<TableRow>
<TextView
