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Old 05-05-2015, 07:26 AM   #228
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Device: Kobo Aura, Kobo Aura ONE, PocketBook InkPad Color 3
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Originally Posted by GERGE View Post
Only some of them are good enough to compete and only a handful of them can really compete at the same level. Alegreya, PT Serif, Ubuntu Mono, Source Sans Pro... Stil, there is nothing like Freight family, Arno, Storm Baskerville, GT Sectra... I can count many.

They might look as good as the others on the surface, but there are many details that would be missing. Good kerning, good hinting, ligatures, optical sizes... For example Open Baskerville was long considered one of the best free typefaces out there, just compare it with Storm Baskerville.
What font features (like ligatures, hinting, kerning) do the kepub and epub engines use?

I'd also be interested to know if any particular font designs (or aspects of font designs) work better or worse on the kind of eInk screens used in the Kobo readers. I had the feeling from somewhere that eInk pixels were not a fixed size, but maybe I'm misremembering something.

Still, I wonder whether any font designs work better than others.
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