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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Also makes me wonder a tiny little bit why you would need to have options to make fonts not meant for eink look good on it anyway?
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There really isn't a lot of tweaking that has to be done for fonts on E Ink devices;
there's nothing special about E Ink that makes it a particularly difficult display technology for fonts, and any font tweaking really only matters at small sizes.
The latest Kindles and Kobos both have high-resolution screens, and any font that look good
at whatever size the user chooses are appropriate for those devices.
Yes, there was a time, in the era of lower-resolution displays, when font designers did adjust fonts to make them easier to read at normal point-sizes.
For instance, Microsoft designed
Georgia and
Verdana for use on low-resolution display devices, as alternatives to Times and Helvetica -- but that was back in 1993, almost 20 years ago, when 640x480 pixels was a common screen size.
The Pearl E Ink screens in current Kindle and Kobo models are XGA, 1024x768, and use much smaller screens (six-inch diagonally) than those old VGA CRTs. With that pixel density (212 dpi), just about any sans-serif font, and serif fonts with all but the most delicate serifs, will look crisp at normal reading sizes. The notion that a font has to be fine-tuned for modern E Ink displays is mostly marketing hype.
That said, Kobo
does offer more fonts, more font tweaking, and easier installation of user-selected fonts, than does Kindle,
and the Kobo Glo comes with the
OpenDyslexic font preinstalled, for those who might benefit from it.
All best wishes.
Rob