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Document Default | 8 | 5.44% | |
Amasis | 22 | 14.97% | |
Avenir Next | 9 | 6.12% | |
Caecilia | 27 | 18.37% | |
Georgia | 48 | 32.65% | |
Gill Sans | 5 | 3.40% | |
Kobo Nickel | 10 | 6.80% | |
Malabar | 13 | 8.84% | |
Gothic | 4 | 2.72% | |
Ryumin | 2 | 1.36% | |
OpenDyslexic | 3 | 2.04% | |
Other? | 20 | 13.61% | |
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 147. You may not vote on this poll |
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06-10-2013, 05:38 AM | #16 |
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I voted Malabar, Avenir and Other (Ubuntu), but I forgot Gothic which is the best when reading in Japanese. No way to edit my vote?
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06-10-2013, 06:50 AM | #17 | |
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06-10-2013, 07:11 AM | #18 |
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I use an adapted Times New Roman. That's why I switched from Kindle to Kobo: the ease of adding your own font.
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06-10-2013, 08:14 AM | #19 |
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Of the built-in fonts I prefer Georgia. I don't like its lower-case style numerals though. And it is far too heavy by default, but that can be tweaked in the advanced settings.
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06-11-2013, 03:40 AM | #20 |
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I do all my reading on Ubuntu (added it myself), because I find it excellently readable and in looks nice and modern.
I find serif fonts more tiring to read. Once in a while I try some other fonts, but I keep going back to Ubuntu. |
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06-12-2013, 05:08 PM | #21 |
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Malabar and georgia, mostly malabar, some times I try one off the others but I end up changing it back. I tried adding some fonts a wile ago, but had problems with the italics and bolds so I forget them I kept with the ones that are already in the glo.
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06-12-2013, 06:18 PM | #22 |
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I just stick with Georgia.
Judging from the numbers thus far (17), it's the most popular. |
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06-12-2013, 10:08 PM | #24 | |
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Actually, a nice tutorial on creating ligatures at: http://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?t=1435 Regards, David |
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06-13-2013, 12:05 AM | #25 |
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I was somewhat excited to read that CharisSIL should contain all characters, but I am failing miserably on trying to use the font. Either I messed something up with the Kobo Extended Driver plugin, or I'm beginning to think Kobo just doesn't handle any sideloaded fonts well.
Yes, I'm 100% percent I have named the fonts the way Kobo wants them, using -Regular, -Bold, -BoldItalic, -Italic included in the filenames. The fonts do change as they should, but CharisSIL just refuses to display most special characters correctly. On the kepub version, CharisSIL displays the majority of the special in a ridiculously tiny size. On the epub version of the same book, CharisSIL only displays boxes for the majority of the special characters. I used the Kobo extended driver plugin to send the kepub version to the reader. Georgia font display the characters correctly in both kepub and epub. The code for the text is just using <p> and the stylesheet for it is: p { display: block; margin-top: 0em; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 0em; margin-right: 0em; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.5em; } I've tried it with the CharisSIL Modified and Compact fonts that JSWolf has graciously provided for us, and the standard CharisSIL font also, all with the identical results. These screenshots are with the standard CharisSIL. Am I doing something wrong with to use the CharisSIL font? My Kobo firmware is 2.5.1. I also tried changing the <p> to <p class="calibre"> (and added .calibre to the stylesheet with the same code as p), and that didn't change anything either. Sigil verifies no problems with the epub. |
06-13-2013, 01:37 AM | #26 | |
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I took a look at Charis SIL with the Greek alphabet and it is missing quite a few characters. I then tried DejaVu Serif and it looked fine. I've attached that font to this message. Give it a try and let me know if it works for you. Regards, David Last edited by DNSB; 06-14-2013 at 10:09 PM. Reason: Re-added the DejaVuSerif.zip file with license file embedded |
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06-13-2013, 02:34 AM | #27 | |
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I find myself using Avenir Next & Caecelia most often; I don't have much need for a wide glyph set so I haven't really run into any problems with either of them. Sometimes I use Iowan Old Style, FF Tisa or Whitney if it works for that document.
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That's the main reason I don't use Georgia on my KG; it just looks...not quite right. I want to like Amasis more than I do; I really like the slab-serif design of the individual glyphs, but the flow of the text is just...too stocky and rigid. Oh well. |
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06-13-2013, 03:24 AM | #28 | |
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Thanks for the font, I rather like it and will use it for awhile and see if it doesn't replace Georgia when I need those special characters. Last edited by Ripplinger; 06-13-2013 at 03:27 AM. |
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06-13-2013, 09:27 AM | #29 | |
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Kepub does substitute from other fonts but if you are not using a Kobo supplied font, the results are, as you noticed, not all that pleasant. Regards, David |
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06-13-2013, 10:28 AM | #30 | |
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Edit: I also noticed odd behavior with at least the Kobo Nickel font, where the last line of one page with any descenders gets cut off and will be seen at the top of the following page. I thought it might only happen where Kobo substitutes another font, but it can be on any page and you can often see a slight row of the bottoms of all letters across the line. This is on kepub only, the epub in the same book doesn't have that happen. I can only guess that the top margin with the book title is doing something to the spacing. I thought it might be caused when I forced the line spacing to 1.25 instead of Kobo's usual 1.3 so I changed it with the slider, and it's slightly better. The entire line of text won't show a sliver of it on the following page, but descenders will still fall onto the following page. Last edited by Ripplinger; 06-13-2013 at 10:49 AM. |
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