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Originally Posted by StillReading
GeoffR, you were referring to an unhinted font in a previous post in this thread. May I ask why you've explicitly stated that the font is unhinted? I've been playing around with fonts on the Kobo lately, and can't find in-depth information on the web about whether it makes sense or not to remove the hinting info from fonts for use on eBook readers, specifically the Kobo H2O. I'd be thankful for any info on the subject.
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It is just that the Gentium Basic fonts are ones that benefit greatly from removing the hinting, so someone with the unmodified font installed might wonder why it looked so different to my screenshot.
Here is a post with screenshots comparing the hinted and unhinted Gentium Book Basic.
If the font looks good to you then I wouldn't bother removing the hinting, but if you notice that some glyphs look darker than others, or are of uneven thickness, or are just very thin; especially if the effect goes away when you increase the font size, then it might be caused by the hinting.