[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Hitch

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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I actually run into this shockingly often, and I don't mean from Trogs, either. I mean, you'd be AMAZED at how many print designers send me stuff w/o having a font actually embedded. They don't understand that what I see at this end bears ZERO resemblance to what they've sent. I'm now having to constantly check for "called fonts" against what I SEE, because of this, and that's a royal Pain in the Tuchus, lemme tell ya. Heavily prevalent with almost anything I get that has been designed on a Mac, too--there's an operating assumption that "of course" I have Font X, because a) I MUST BE using a Mac [I'm not unless I'm forced to boot up the one I keep here for just those emergencies] and b) I MUST HAVE their fave font Y. [I rarely do].

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Hitch

Ah! The famous, it's installed on my computer so just calling the font-family shows it here so it must work everywhere syndrome.

One reason I like Kobo is because you can sometimes increase the weight of a font so it looks decent/good on an eInk screen. This is only for the font on the Kobo though. It doesn't modify the font. Kindle's do the same thing with Cecelia. They modify it for heavier weight and the condensed version is made from the regular version. There is no such thing as Cecelia condensed.