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It's weird how we still can't easily change our device's font to anyone we want (lemmy.world)
submitted 1 week ago by ByteMe@lemmy.world to c/android@lemdro.id
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There many people with dyslexia and other stuff like that and using some other font like comic sans can make a huge difference on them, yet there is no way to easily (I think) change the font on our devices. We should be able to just download and load the font. What do you think?

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[-] unknownuserunknownlocation@kbin.earth 1 points 1 week ago

Should we be able to? Absofuckinglutely.

Unfortunately, it's another casualty of the looks of the device OS being part of the brand. Essentially: if you chose a font that countered the brand look Google (or even more so Apple) is striving to maintain, you would decrease the value of their brand. So they don't let you. Remember the first iPhones? You couldn't set a wallpaper. The background was black. Period. It would have been perfectly possible to allow a user to set a wallpaper. But when the wallpaper was black, anyone seeing the iPhone's home screen could immediately recognize it as an iPhone. It took four fucking iPhone generations until you could change the wallpaper. Not being able to change the font is that concept, but on not quite as many steroids.

Is it stupid? Absolutely. Unfortunately, it's probably not going to change any time soon, because it seems this branding works for those companies, users be damned.

God, I hope Linux phones get more usable, and fast.

[-] original_reader@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You think that's bad?

Just wait. Soon there will be a lot of other things you want but won't be able to do anymore.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/09/f-droid-calls-for-regulators-to-stop-googles-crackdown-on-sideloading/

[-] exupulosion@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

In most oem roms it's an option, but in other aspects they tend to be worse than google's walled garden even. From what I can remember Samsung and Oppo/Oneplus/Vivo/Realme have ability to change fonts but I wouldn't put my trust and money in any of them

[-] ByteMe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You can indeed change fonts on Samsung but you have like 4 different default options and then you have to download them from galaxy store. Many of them are not free (they are also crap) and you definitely can't import one on your own.

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