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Originally Posted by Katsunami
This one?
http://www.dafont.com/goodfish.font
Looks fishy indeed. Very elongated, but stylish  I'll try that too.
edit: Note: I compare all fonts to Caecilia 4, as I've been using that one for over a year.
Just tried Goodfish. It's a beautiful font to look at, using thin and thick lines, but it's small. Very small. Tiny, in fact. It's so small, that Goodfish 5 still easily gains 3 lines on screen over Caecilia 4. This is a very elegant font, if you don't mind the smallness or are willing to set a larger size. Because of the elongated letters, it's less readable than other fonts, at least for me.
I've also just finished my fat DejaVu Serif. It looks good, IMHO. It has a much more "bookish" look than the blocky Caecilia, which, to me, looks much more "typewriter-ish. DejaVu Serif and Caecilia are the same size. Because the letters are spaced closer together, DejaVu Serif 4 gains about one line on screen over Caecilia 4. Readbility is about equal; it depends on what you like.
To summarize: Should I leave Caecilia 4, then it would probably be for my fat DejaVu Serif font, at least for now. The reason would solely be that DejaVu Serif looks much more like a "book font" to me than Caecila does. In all other things, such as size, fatness and readability, they're about equal. |
I fell in love with goodfish after trying it on my iPhone so now it's on everything I have. I will give DejaVu Serif a look though because I too am looking for a font that looks like it would be in a book.
Update:
I just looked at DejaVu Serif online and I think it looks like a pretty good book font. I wish it was available on my iPhone but all I see is DejaVu Sans which isn't as neat.