View Single Post
Old 12-31-2007, 11:24 PM   #1
wallcraft
reader
wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.wallcraft ought to be getting tired of karma fortunes by now.
 
wallcraft's Avatar
 
Posts: 6,977
Karma: 5183568
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Mississippi, USA
Device: Kindle 3, Kobo Glo HD
Which font is this?

The Kindle book "Sign Language for Everyone: A Basic Course in Communication with the Deaf" has an unusual font (as pointed out by rflashman here).

I enclose screenshots of this publication and also HarryT's Dickens, Charles: A Tale of Two Cities (Illustrated). v2, 24 Dec 2007. The latter as an example of the standard font (Caecilia). These are on the 4th font size, to make the fonts easy to see. These are actual dumps of the screen, using Alt-Shift-G see Hacking the Kindle part 3: root shell and runtime system.

Nelson Books are forcing left justification (usually considered bad practice, because it removes user choice), but they also have a different font from usual and a narrower line spacing. The lowercase e and g are particularly different in the two fonts. It is possible to specify a specific font in the MobiPocket format, but you have to know its exact name and I'm not sure how to force line spacing within a MobiPocket e-book. If the book was DRM-free then it would be easy to see how this is done, but as it is I am in the dark.
Attached Thumbnails
Click image for larger version

Name:	Kindle_D4.gif
Views:	864
Size:	28.7 KB
ID:	8638   Click image for larger version

Name:	Kindle_F4.gif
Views:	820
Size:	21.6 KB
ID:	8639  
wallcraft is offline   Reply With Quote