The Droid font family was designed in the fall of 2006 by Ascenders Steve
Matteson, as a commission from Google to create a set of system fonts for its
Android platform. The goal was to provide optimal quality and comfort on a
mobile handset when rendered in application menus, web browsers and for other
screen text.

The family was later extended in collaboration with other designers such as
Pascal Zoghbi of 29ArabicLetters.

Droid Sans Mono is a humanist mono-space sans serif font family designed for
user interfaces and electronic communication.