Thread: What's you're favorite E-reader fonts?
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Old 06-20-2011, 12:59 PM   #32
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
You make it sound like Charis is used in all Overdrive eBooks. Not so. It's done by the publisher and Overdrive has nothing to do with font embedding. Charis is the most common font family used for embedding fonts.
No book I have ever purchased (from the Sony store, Kobo, B&N, or Amazon) had an embedded font. But when I download library books, about 90% of them use Charis. This is from a variety of publishers. I would never buy a book that I can download from the library, so I can't compare apples-to-apples, but that's been my experience.

And I find the Charis font to be the opposite of "choppy and unreadable" (and that's exactly how I would describe Sony's default font). I wish I could do a screenshot of my own screen (how do you guys do that? It's part of PRS+?) so we would see if it looks the same, because my experience/perception/aesthetic is so very different.

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