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Originally Posted by Japes
And, Delphin, in your testing, did you ever test LexiaDaMa?
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Yes, LexiaDaMa is similar to the popular Kindle font PMN Caecilia.
LexiaDaMa is essentially the same as Caecilia except for minor differences in the descender on the Upper case Q and the lower case g.
Aesthetically, I prefer fonts with a full loop cursive descender on the lower case letter
'g' as you find in Time Roman family fonts, which Caecilia has, but I really don't like the huge jutting descender on the upper case 'Q' in Caecilia.
There seems to be a wide spread misconception that another difference between the two fonts is that LexiaDaMa is 'free' where, unless you have a Kindle, you have to buy PMN Caecilia. I don't think that this is correct, since the author of LexiaDaMa has a web page that lists it for sale as a commercial font, just like Linotype does for PMN Caecilia. So although there may be copies floating around the web, technically, either font should be purchased and would cost fifty dollars or more if purchased separately.
I think that one reason for the popularity of these fonts is that they split the difference between a totally unadorned san-serif font like Ariel, Verdana, or Bitstream Vera-Sans, and the Classic Time Roman style fonts you see used in typeset books.
Font's like LexiaDaMa, Caecilia are technically serif fonts, but lean rather heavily style wise towards the simple Sans-Serif fonts that are common on the web these days, and which are used in comic books and 'graphic novels' (
fonts like comic sans for example)
I tried to keep NimbusMod as simple as possible, to also try to split the difference, but my font leans more heavily towards the classic roman serif fonts used in published books.
Most traditionally published books still use
Times Roman or similar full serif fonts, and that's what I grew up reading, so I prefer a 'times' style font, and that's why I created NimbusMod, which is nothing but a simple times style font that is optimized for reading on eInk devices.
Depending on your age, background (and just plain personal preferences) you might prefer either a times style font like NimbusMod, or a unifom stroke width serif font like LexiaDaMa or Caecilia, or a totally san-serif font like Ariel, Verdana, or Bitstream Vera-Sans.
I created NimbusMod because although there are lots of fonts like LexiaDaMa, Caecilia, and San-Serif fonts that look pretty good on eInk screens, I found there aren't as many times style fonts that really have good readability on smaller eInk screens.