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Originally Posted by ZodWallop
How funny. I thought Literata was already meant for reading hence the name.
I'll install Literata Book. Literata, Literata Book, Noto Serif. I wonder how much difference I'll see between the three?
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It has been a while since I examined all of these closely, so what follows is from memory, and in the absence of other replies I hope may guide your own inspections.
Literata Book and Literata have identical letter forms. However, Literata Book appears to have more kern pairs and ligatures. The most obvious example of the latter I believe (and this is where my memory may fail me) is the ff ligature, which has a flattened first f. Additionally, Literata Book cleans up the whitespace around the letters in Literata, such that I went from using a line height setting of 0.9 with Literata to 1.1 with Literata Book. This is more consistent with Kobo's built-in fonts.
You should find Noto Serif similar to Literata Book (though I only compared it directly to Literata long ago) since the letters are similar and there is no wasted white space around them. The italics for Noto Serif are slanted versions of the regular letters though, unlike Literata Book, which effectively uses an entirely different font for italics. I like this effect very much indeed.
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Originally Posted by chronoreverse
I use Literata because I like that its italics aren't really traditional tilted italics. It lets me notice that a text block is emphasized while not slowing me as much as regular italics do.
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I agree! It's my favourite thing about the font.