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Originally Posted by alexqwerty159
To continue a little on the font/delay trade off, why is it that the libprs-500 embedded fonts look so much better ?
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because of hinting. See below.
My personal preference is to use built-in sans-serif font.
So I create an rtf file of the book I wish to read. In rtf file I set:
- page margins to 0.01
- font to some generic sans-serif (like helvetica or arial), size 16
- intendation for the lines to some value like 0.5cm
Explanation:
- page margins to 0.01 - so I can cram as much text on the page as possible. It really doesn't make sense to have margins on a small display. Margins are leftovers from the time books were typeset for printing. It is much like the first cars were resembling a horse buggy without a horse
- font to some generic sans-serif (like helvetica arial), size 16 so the reader uses its built-in sans-serif font. Again, a serif font is much more readable than sans-serif in a *printed* book. For a low resolution display sans-serif is much, much more readable. Please notice that even *this* text, just like the vast majority of text on a well designed web sites, is sans-serif
See wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serif_font
Quote from wikipedia:
While in print serifed fonts are considered more readable, sans-serif is considered more legible on computer screens.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sans-serif
Quote from wikipedia:
Sans-serif fonts have become the de facto standard for body text on-screen, especially online. It has been suggested that this is because the small size of the font causes serif fonts to appear excessively cluttered on the screen.
- intendation for the lines to some value like 0.5cm so you can see where paragraph begins without having to have large space between paragraphs.
in Sony Reader PRS500 the built-in sans-serif font is heavily hinted, so it has a very nice, well defined, high contrast "crisp" outlines. Please see hinting at wikipedia for explanatioon
http://en.wikipedia.rg/wiki/Hinting
quote from wikipedia:
One aspect of TrueType hinting is grid-fitting, which modifies the height and width of font characters to line up to the set pixel grid of screen display.