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Originally Posted by robko
The only real advantage to the built in fonts is the ability to adjust the weight (makes them fatter/darker). Other than that it shouldn't matter if they are stack or side loaded. Try them all and see which looks best to you.
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Indeed. I noticed the 'Advanced Settings' disappear for the manually installed fonts, although it doesn't really ruin the experience for me.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I would highly recommend my modified Charis SIL compact Hinted or my Charis SIL Compact Larger Hinted.
In the photograph showing three different Kobo Readers with the H2O in the middle, the font used is the Charis SIL Compact Larger and I have a newer hinted version.
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I have dug about last night, but couldn't find that 'Hinted' version you speak of. The 'Modified' is very pleasing to the eye, and the 'Larger' I still need to test. Thanks for putting the fonts out here
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Originally Posted by DNSB
I keep several fonts installed. Two of them (Code 2000 and Arial Unicode MS) are there mainly for handling ebooks with non-Latin character sets used. Otherwise, JSWolf's Charis SIL modified is my main font with DejaVu Serif for books that use Greek and Cyrillic characters that are not in the Charis SIL glyph set. There is also HP's Courier Dark which is handy for those occasions when I want an old style monospace font (computer output, etc.). Other fonts come and go but those 5 are my goto font set.
I have the patch to allow modifying weight/sharpness on all fonts instead of the subset of the factory supplied fonts but find that I seldom use them as Charis SIL and Deja Vu are both modified so the normal font weight is a demi-bold.
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Most of what you listed is unfamiliar to me, which is great, cause I hope to find a semi-permanent substitution to 'Georgia'; I should probably try out some monospaced fonts as well. I do have a question regarding the last bit; how do you patch the weight adjustment for new fonts? Thanks.