Custom font rendering on Android 4.0 (Ice cream sandwich)

Question

While testing an application that uses Helvetica Neue as its primary font on Android 4.0 I have found that there is an inconsistency in typeface rendering compared to multiple d

Answer 1

After playing some more I haven't been able to reproduce what you see.

Leads me to believe that the the font you are using is bad.

I set all my typefaces as per my other answer, this works fine for me, see screens:

So the top text is Roboto-Normal Then the text below is Roboto-Light, with for making it strong.

So 3 versions, 3 different screen sizes, two densities, manually set Typeface. same rendering. Not sure how your getting what your seeing. Have you tried with a different typeface?

I'll provide some more examples of what i'm doing if that might help?