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Old 09-03-2014, 03:42 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by aluisscp View Post
Hi again!

Reading during the day with the light on it becomes very evident that the text is somewhat grey... The thing is that in the menus the titles are so much darker than the book text itself. I have changed the font multiple times without fixing it.
Is there a patch that makes the text show the darkest possible in books, since the device is capable of showing a wide gradient of grey maybe it's not set as default to be 100% dark.

Thanks!

PS: neither weight or size improved it as well
Is this over multiple books or in a single book. I've seen a couple of books where the text had a colour associated with it which is rendered as a shade of grey on the eInk screen. My answer has been to edit the affected ebooks to remove the colour setting. Look for lines in the stylesheet or in the epub files themselves that look like "color: #008000;" or color="blue". A setting such as color: #000000; is the same as setting the color to black and is really unneeded.

If this happens on multiple books, you might want to try changing to a darker font. Check for JSWolf's Charis SIL CompactLarger font in the Modified Fonts sticky or download it from http://www.mediafire.com/download/ga...r+-+Hinted.rar. Close to a semi-bold font which works well on Kobo's ereaders. This variant also has hinting useful for smaller font sizes.

Check the modified font sticky for more on installing fonts if you are not already familiar with the process.

Regards,
David

Last edited by DNSB; 09-03-2014 at 04:18 PM. Reason: added suggestion about different font
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