The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson of Ascender Corporation.

[3][4] With the release of Android 4.0 "Ice Cream Sandwich" in 2011, Droid Sans was replaced with Roboto as the default typeface.

OpenType features include Old Style Figures, as well as dotted and plain variants of the zero glyph for Droid Sans Pro Mono (the default zero is slashed).

Handset Condensed is a condensed version of Droid Sans Pro designed by Ascender Corp's Steve Matteson and released on 1 March 2013 to be compatible with the Droid family of fonts, but without OpenType features.

Similar to Droid Sans Pro, the family includes two fonts in Bold and Regular weights without italics.