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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Just add in the other fonts needed to make a true font family. That problem will then be solved. Full justified would not be much of an isue if we have hyphenation support. And it would also fix the spacing with larger text sizes as well.
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Hyphenation looks better, I guess. But a bit of searching with Google and Google Scholar suggests that there is evidence that it somewhat retards reading speed. I am guessing that this is going to be particularly an issue on small screens.
(One might think that hyphenation will reduce the number of page turns, and thus improve reading speed. But I did a little experiment in fbreader, and there doesn't seem to be a significant difference in the number of page turns.)
Nicer italics is nice. I also suspect that slanted text, while uglier, is read faster, but I don't have data.
I suspect curly quotes do improve readability and hence are a plus.