So I really didn't like the font that came with my Kindle 3, so I applied the font hack with the default fonts included in the hack (Droid and DejaVu, I think). They are much more attractive, and I like that they are more Free than the proprietary font Amazon uses.
That being said, I need a font with better Greek character support. One of my ebooks (the New Testament of the Bible in 1st century Greek) does not display properly with the default fonts in the hack. It did display properly with Amazon's stock Kindle font, so I don't feel like this is too much of a request.
I know little about fonts, particularly little regarding alternative character sets. But I would like something that is clear and readable, so if I understand correctly, it needs to be able to be hinted well.
Additionally, I would prefer a font with some type of open source licensing. That's just the kind of guy I am.
I think the font "Gentium Plus" would meet my needs for character support... This is from their
website:
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Gentium is a typeface family designed to enable the diverse ethnic groups around the world who use the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek scripts to produce readable, high-quality publications. It supports a wide range of Latin- and Cyrillic-based alphabets. Gentium also supports both polytonic and monotonic Greek. Gentium Plus now includes more extended Latin glyphs (Unicode 5.1), archaic Greek symbols, and full extended Cyrillic script support.
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I'm not sure though if it would look acceptable on the Kindle. Does anyone here have any insight into this? Would I need to do any extra work to get it to display with optimal hinting? OR, is there some other font that someone could suggest that would meet my needs? For a point of reference, I really like the looks of Droid.
Thanks in advance!