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Originally Posted by JSWolf
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.
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Agreed. Garamond, for example, looks like the dog's breakfast on MOBI tablet readers. It's far too light. That's why I tend (always) use a heavier, OS version that isn't Garamond, but resembles it a lot. For that matter, y'know, Georgia is a good reading font, on e-ink.
I don't think I know any reading system that thoroughly supports kerning, because it requires the characters. Or the slots for the characters, like in Garamond--that's 1300 characters, above and beyond the base sets.
We had a guy, that could NOT let go of some kerned pair...I think it was the kerning pairs in....now, I can't recall the font. My brain keeps thinking Linux Libertine, but that's wrong. Whatever it was, I couldn't get him to understand that just because he saw it on his computer--where he'd downloaded and installed the font--didn't mean that it would appear on the reader.
Slight bitch du jour about fonts and font embedding in source materials:
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