Excursus

Continuing the series of posts on monospace fonts, we consider the question “Do androids dream in monospace fonts?”

Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation has designed the Droid Typeface Family for the Open Handest Alliance’s Android platform. Released under the Apache license, Droid Sans Mono is an attractive monospace font.

It is not without its limitations, however:

1. No bold variant
2. No italic variant
3. No slashed zero

Nevertheless, given its licensing, perhaps these limitations will be addressed in time.