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Scenario

We are group of friends whom developing the applications for android, blackberry and ios operating systems, we are in need to implement the font family changes in our application.

What I need:

Is there any common list of fonts which are supported by all three operating systems?

helloworld
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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7316269/is-there-a-list-of-supported-fonts-for-safari-mobile-ie-ipad-and-iphone/7316604#7316604 – jussi Aug 22 '12 at 08:27

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iOS: Here is a list of the default fonts supported on iOS: http://iosfonts.com/

Android: There are only three system wide fonts in Android; normal (Droid Sans), serif (Droid Serif), and monospace (Droid Sans Mono). Source: http://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/List_of_fonts_included_with_each_device

Blackberry: http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Adobe-AIR-Development/List-of-available-fonts/td-p/1243913

Simon Epskamp
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No and yes.

If you have the font you can display any font on Android but default Android only have roboto font.

iOS has at least helvetica family of fonts and I believe it also supports custom fonts (please correct me if I'm wrong).

Edit: I believe there is no build in fonts that are supported on all the platforms, BUT all platforms support custom fonts so you should just pick one and use it.

For iOS custom fonts see here: Can I embed a custom font in an iPhone application?

For Android custom fonts see here: Custom Fonts in Android

For Blackberry custom fonts look here: To set multiple fonts in blackberry

Hope that clarified a little

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Warpzit
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  • no and yes its confusing,i expect any one answer from you sir,any common fonts which support all three operating systems?you mentioned **roboto** and **helevetica** which cant be supported by blackberry devices,i need atleast four sir – helloworld Aug 22 '12 at 08:12
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sorry it's not possible but android and blackberry is supported sans and serif , blackberry and ios support Arial

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