[At Your Own Risk] Get the Roboto font on your Rooted Galaxy Note

If you're waiting for my next Galaxy Note review instalment I'm afraid this post will disappoint you; this is not the post you're looking for. Don't worry though, those posts are coming very soon!

This post is for people who have, or will have, the Galaxy Note - a brief guide for how to get the Roboto font from Ice Cream Sandwich on your Note right now. If you missed out on the press surrounding the Roboto font, it's the default font in the upcoming iteration of the Android OS, and it's something a little bit special. You see, the typeface for Roboto has been specially designed with high density, high resolution screens in mind. It promises to give you the best text reading experience on your HD screen, which of course makes it a must on the 5.3 inches of gorgeous Super AMOLED HD found in the Note.

Hit us up after the break to see how simple it is to get this running on your Note.

Installation is refreshingly straightforward, providing of course you have already Rooted your Note:

1. Download this zip archive
2. Open a file browser like Root explorer or Astro, navigate to /sdcard/downloads, long press the zip archive you downloaded and extract it
3. Install the Root app Font Changer from the Market and open it
4. Go back to the file manager and copy the Roboto font files to the the solder /sdcard/.fontchanger that will have been created when you opened the app
5. Apply the font in Font Changer, you will be prompted to reboot the phone - do it and when it reboots you will be greeted with the Roboto font as the default system font on your Galaxy Note!

What you may notice of you look really closely at the font, as I did, is that Roboto isn't actually that different from the stock font on the Galaxy Note. If you look closely at certain letters, for example the "a" you will however see a subtle difference from the note's native font. Looking at such minor, even tiny, differences, you'd think the effect on readability would be rendered negligible... ...and yet it isn't. I find the readability quite significantly increased. I guess that's why companies part with so much of their precious profit margins for custom typefaces?

Thanks to our very own editor Lokhor for providing the how-to know-how for this in his earlier guide on how to get ICS elements on your current 'Droid - if you're craving for more ICS right now then hit up his guide for more tips on how to make it so.