[No-Root][Fonts][EMUI 4.x & 5.x] Request fonts & Step by Step Guide to make your own
If you have EMUI 5, you will need to also follow this guide to use any font. (you don't need this for EMUI 4)
You will need:
First of all, sorry for the wall of text. In this very first version of the guide I just want to make sure it explains everything nicely. Further on, I will add images and make this better. (I'm not full-time at XDA
)
If for some reason you don't want me to make the font or you want to make it yourself, then you have come to the right place!
The requirements are:
You can see some files and folders, like "description.xml", "framework-res", "icons", "preview" and "fonts. (these are the required files to make a theme with only a font. If you want to make a full theme, I recommend another guide for that and this one at the same time)
Here is a brief explanation of whay they do (further explanation is below):
Fonts for EMUI
Important Information
This post will keep growing. It will start will just two fonts: "Open Sans" and "Roboto" (yes, I know Roboto is the default font of Android 4+, but here it is in case you want it). This will work in a very simple way: You suggest the font for me to add and I add it (the simple requirements are written below).
By the way, this post didn't have a guide in the start. Thanks to @leonardus_magnus for suggesting it.
If someone is using EMUI 3.x please tell me if any font doesn't work. I will do my best to fix it, but without any guarantees because I don't have any device with that version to test.
Screenshots of the fonts posted by me
Only the fonts that have the Bold style "naturally" will have their title in Bold.
Using custom fonts on EMUI 5
Only the fonts that have the Bold style "naturally" will have their title in Bold.
Using custom fonts on EMUI 5
If you have EMUI 5, you will need to also follow this guide to use any font. (you don't need this for EMUI 4)
You will need:
- A computer, with Windows or Linux (can't say anything about MACs)
- Android SDK Platform Tools (you actually just need ADB from there). Get them here: https://developer.android.com/studio/releases/platform-tools.html
- Your device drivers. They will be automatically installed when you connect your Huawei / Honor smartphone to your computer and install HiSuite.
- First of all, you need to activate Developer Options. To do that, Go to the Settings, scroll all the way down, and go to "About phone" and click some times on "Build number".
- After you have activated them, you will find an extra option in the Settings menu, called "Developer Options". Go there.
- Now, activate USB Debugging (you can freely deactivate it, and I recommend it, after doing this guide). Just scroll down until you find it.
- Connect the smartphone with a cable to your computer.
- Now you can go to where you downloaded the Android SDK Platform Tools and extract them to where you want.
- Open a Terminal / Command Prompt and navigate to the extracted folder. Use the "cd PATH" to navigate there.
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In Windows you can just Shift-Right Click and a "Open PowerShell Window here" / "Open a Command Prompt Window here" will appear.
If it is PowerShell, just type "cmd" in it and you can keep going as usual.
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For Linux, some launchers already include that option by just Right-Clicking, no need to add the Shift complication... - In the Terminal / PowerShell / Command Prompt / whatever you want to call it, type in "adb devices". A notification on your smartphone should appear, asking to authorize USB Debugging. Allow it.
- Type it again. If a device appears, good job!
- Now, send this command: "adb shell settings put system hw_hide_font_style false". This will un-hide the Font Style option in Settings.
- Now, reboot your device and it's done! Congratulations! Now you can use custom fonts on your device by going to Settings > Display > Text / Font Style!
How to make your own font
First of all, sorry for the wall of text. In this very first version of the guide I just want to make sure it explains everything nicely. Further on, I will add images and make this better. (I'm not full-time at XDA
)If for some reason you don't want me to make the font or you want to make it yourself, then you have come to the right place!
The requirements are:
- The font files (in TTF format. If that format isn't avaiable, then you can try some software of website to convert, but while it can work, there is also a chance it doesn't);
- A computer (I recommend Windows or Linux);
- Some images to preview your theme (JPG only!)
- A file manager (I recommend 7zip or WinRAR);
- Any text editor, like Notepad++ or Visual Studio Code (I use this one).
- The base files I made, so everything is a lot easier! You can download them here.
(I added a CC BY license. Simply, you can do whatever you want with these files / package, including for commercial purposes, but you need to credit me, with my name and a link to this post).
You can see some files and folders, like "description.xml", "framework-res", "icons", "preview" and "fonts. (these are the required files to make a theme with only a font. If you want to make a full theme, I recommend another guide for that and this one at the same time)
Here is a brief explanation of whay they do (further explanation is below):
- "fonts": (FOLDER) Here you store all the font related files.
- "preview": (FOLDER) The folder will include all images to preview the theme, in the themes app
- "description.xml": (FILE) The name says it all. Here you write everything to describe the theme, from its name to its version. (I wrote in the file exactly what you need to do)
- "framework-res": (FILE) This file is only used for complete themes. You don't need to touch it (but do not delete it! The theme won't work without this.)
- "icons": The same as "framework-res". As the name suggests, it is for icons.
Ok, now stop describing the files and explain what I do with them!
There you have it!
In the "fonts" folder there is a lot of fonts styles (in my package I included Roboto, since it is Android default font).
When you download the fonts you want to use, you just need to move them all here and rename their styles to Roboto names.
If you don't have a style, then just don't use it.
The preview image for the font (the one that appears before you apply it in the Settings) is named "pic_font_default.jpg".TIP:
If some font includes a style named "Ultra" or "Extra" Bold, then it is probably the "Black" style of Roboto.
Also, copy any style of the font and rename it to "DroidSansChinese.ttf" (I recommend using the Regular style). I'm not very sure why its needed, but with my knowledge I can say its probably some Android ROMs use that font instead of Roboto, and EMUI can be one of those.
I recommend using a 500 px x 520 px resolution.
The "preview" folder includes all the images that will preview your theme in the themes app.
I included the
- "cover.jpg" - Name says everything. The cover.
- "preview_fonts_N.jpg" - Preview for the fonts. This says it all.
- "preview_unlock_N.jpg" - Preview of the lockscreen. (yes, you can theme the lockscreen including buttons and that stuff in EMUI).
- "preview_widget_N.jpg" - For the widgets.
- "preview_icons_N.jpg" - Icons preview.
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The N means the number of that image type. It starts at 0.
When you finished putting everything together, from fonts to images, you just need to use a file manager to zip everything! After it has been zipped, rename the *.zip to *.hwt and your theme is ready! (yep, a theme is just a renamed zip file)
There you have it! I hope you like my awesome wall of text!
I'm still seeing how I can make this look better.
Will also add more details soon.
How to apply a font
- NOTES:
- As fair as I know, these should work in EMUI 4 without any problem. (I wrote below how to change it)
- If you are using EMUI 5, then please scroll up and follow the guide up there to be able to use custom fonts in EMUI 5.
- Now, how to apply them: (for both EMUI 4 and 5)
- Download the font to any location on your device;
- Move it to the "HWThemes" folder (located in the Internal Storage, also known as "/storage/emulated/0";
- Open the Themes application and go to the "Me" section. Make sure the font theme appears there (but don't apply it in the themes app!);
- Go to Settings >> Display >> (Text / Font) Style and select the font you want to apply.
Do you want to suggest a font? There are only 2 simple requirements!
- You must provide the source of the font, not the download link directly.
- Example: Provide this http://www.dafont.com/roboto.font, but not this http://dl.dafont.com/dl/?f=roboto.
- There is a .ttf (TrueType) format of that font avaiable. This is the only format I got working, please tell me if there is any other format that works and I will post it here.
Notes for the people that care
- I'm still working on the themes art to make it look even better! (the images you see before applying the theme; on some devices they don't even appear, I'm still trying to find out why).
Downloads and Update Logs are in separated posts (below)
- NOTES:
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