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Old 12-12-2007, 01:02 AM   #35
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Originally Posted by RWood View Post
I have found New Century Schoolbook to be the easiest font to read. The large x-height as well as the open glyphs allow quick identification of the word shapes. My reading speed increases when NCS is used. Likewise, Baskerville or even New Baskerville will decrease my reading speed and produce a headache after about 15 minutes of reading. TNR is a condensed font by all standards except its own. It was designed to fit the most characters on a printed page at a given size as possible.

The current Sony Reader practice of making oblique fonts on the fly (along with bold and bold-oblique) is a trade-off between processor power, storage requirements (for the extra fonts), and the IO requirements of the hardware system design. I have made several books in BookDesigner (for my use alone) implementing full font families and the results (while a bit slower on page turns and bit larger in size) are very rewarding.
New Century Schoolbook has always been my favorite font. I always try and use it when I work in Framemaker.

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