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Originally Posted by Hitch
The trick is, in my opinion, not to just see a font and go nuts for it. Many (far too many) fonts nowadays are just slapped together, because the strokes look nice, with no consideration given to kerning, kerning pairs, the font metrics, etc. I gave an example about this very topic last night on the KDP forums (which of course went straight to mod hell..urghghghghg)...the good ol reliable print font, Garamond, has over 1300 kerning PAIRS, if you look at the three main faces: regular, bold, italic. (The topic at hand was "why can't the reading devices just kern on the fly, no matter what font size is chosen, or font" being complained about, of course, because the person asking understands nothing whatsoever about the complexities of kerning).
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The problem is a lot of these really well made fonts such as Garamond don't work well on an eInk screen. It's the fonts that don't have kerning or are not all that well made that tend to look better on eInk. I have an iPad 4 and some of these lightweight fonts are even too lightweight for an iPad.
The other problem is that sometimes the reading program in use doesn't support kerning even if the font does.