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I know, that the simple Droid is free, and the Droid Pro fonts are paid fonts.
But what's the difference? I have found some fonts online ... which is said to be the Droid Sans Pro. Tried to find out what's the big deal, but I just can't find a single pixel difference. Check this page. The "special" Pro characters gets displayed the same in the normal version too...

I want to buy the font pack, but only if it makes sense to pay for it. Else, I'll just use the simple Droid font pack avaliable on GitHub.

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My guess is that the 'pro' one has more characters than the free one – Shakehar Jul 14 '11 at 9:42
Yeah I have tried that too, but the "plus" ones listed in the PDF and on the .aspx page are gets displayed 100% perfect with Droid Sans too. So yeah.. beats me. :/ – Shiki Jul 14 '11 at 9:45
why pay when its already free :) – Shakehar Jul 14 '11 at 9:51
Yeah, that's the reason I want to know the difference. Only want to pay if it really worth the $$$. – Shiki Jul 14 '11 at 9:53
license issues ?? – Shakehar Jul 14 '11 at 9:55
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The Droid font is a free font series consisting of:

  1. Droid Sans (regular and bold)
  2. Droid Sans Mono (regular)
  3. Droid Serif (regular, bold, italic and bold italic)

All fonts support Western and East Central European, Turkish, Cyrillic and Greek.

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The Droid Pro fonts are the retail version of the free Droid fonts and add a number of features:

  1. Droid Sans Pro (regular and bold)
  2. Droid Sans Pro Condensed (regular and bold)
  3. Droid Sans Pro Mono (regular and bold)
  4. Droid Serif Pro (regular, italic, bold and bold italic)
  5. [Planned] Droid Sans Fallback (regular, supports Chinese-Japanese-Korean characters)

In short, it adds Sans Condensed to the series and introduces bold support for Sans Mono. Planned is also Sans Fallback for CJK support.

Likewise, it's a Pro font. Ascender Pro fonts support a number of additional features, which may include some, or all, of:

  • True small capitals
  • Ligatures
  • Fractions
  • Old style numerals
  • Alternate characters
  • Swashes (see Swash)

In addition:

  • Pro fonts extend the character set support.
  • These special features require OpenType Support.
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Thank you! (this space left blank ... :D) – Shiki Jul 14 '11 at 14:48
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