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voom · 01-09-2012, 06:02 PM

I thought it could be handy to have a fonts-thread to point out (free) fonts that work well on the Kobo.

To receive a good result in most cases one should put at least the 4 most used styles of a font-family into kobo's fonts-folder, they will be detected and listed as 1 font in the selection-menu and handled accordingly. The 4 basic styles are Regular (or Roman), Italic, Bold and BoldItalic.

As I find Caecilia (the standard Kindle-Font) quite convincing, I had a look for similar Slab Serif Fonts and found Charis SIL: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Charis-SIL

Android 4 ICS introduced a newly created sans-serif-font, Roboto, that is especially fit to deliver good readibility in very small letters and look still nice as a heading etc. If I want more / smaller text on each page I prefer Roboto over the others, it really does, as it is supposed to, look still easy and "spacey" (as opposed to "overcrowded") in smaller font-settings. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/roboto

While comparing the Android-Fonts Droid Sans (Android 3) and Roboto I found Droid Serif, that is nice in small sizes, too, and adds a screen-optimized serif-font to this collection. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Serif

Which fonts do you use and like (and why?)

01-09-2012, 06:02 PM	#1
voom Just me :) Posts: 106 Karma: 1282 Join Date: Jan 2012 Location: Germany Device: Kobo Touch	Nice (free) Fonts Collection I thought it could be handy to have a fonts-thread to point out (free) fonts that work well on the Kobo. To receive a good result in most cases one should put at least the 4 most used styles of a font-family into kobo's fonts-folder, they will be detected and listed as 1 font in the selection-menu and handled accordingly. The 4 basic styles are Regular (or Roman), Italic, Bold and BoldItalic. As I find Caecilia (the standard Kindle-Font) quite convincing, I had a look for similar Slab Serif Fonts and found Charis SIL: http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Charis-SIL Android 4 ICS introduced a newly created sans-serif-font, Roboto, that is especially fit to deliver good readibility in very small letters and look still nice as a heading etc. If I want more / smaller text on each page I prefer Roboto over the others, it really does, as it is supposed to, look still easy and "spacey" (as opposed to "overcrowded") in smaller font-settings. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/roboto While comparing the Android-Fonts Droid Sans (Android 3) and Roboto I found Droid Serif, that is nice in small sizes, too, and adds a screen-optimized serif-font to this collection. http://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/Droid-Serif Which fonts do you use and like (and why?) Last edited by voom; 01-09-2012 at 06:39 PM.