Thread: Forma I will use whatever the default font face is set for a book. Here's why.
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Old 09-21-2020, 01:58 AM   #137
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Originally Posted by Skinjob View Post
I've done extensive testing of a lot of fonts, on my Kobo Glo. Not just for readability, which is what everyone else does.... but also, for how well each font pulls you into the content.

My ultimate choice was "Georgia E-Ink". A nicely heavy, weighty font, usually with extra weight applied. It provided not just readability (for my decaying eyes), but the pace that I was looking for.

....Only lately, I've been testing the "Publisher's Default" font. And so long as it is sized large enough, I am becoming convinced that it is better than my old stand-by, Georgia E-Ink. Perhaps because it is not too heavy, so far, I find I'm reading at a faster pace, with good retention, and an even more comfortable experience.

The problem is, I don't know what font this is? I would apply it to all books, if I knew. (I only happened across this thread, in an effort to find the name of the font!). I know not all books have the same default font. But many of my books do have this serif font, when set to "Publisher's Default" (though sometimes, the publisher combines it with non-serif fonts within the text!).

It is quite similar to the Kobo's regular "Georgia", but it's not quite that.

So, this to say, I used to not give a second thought to the Publisher's Default font, and now it's become my default!
Using "Publisher's Default" means: Use whatever font the book specifies, and where it doesn't specify a font, use the system default. And the system default on a Kobo device is their Georgia font. Except where Chinese or Japanese, in which case it uses one of the fonts there specifically for that (whose names I don't remember and am to lazy to go and look for).

There is some difference between epub and kepub font handling. For kepubs, if the glyph is missing from the font, it will fall back to another font that has more complete set of glyphs (one of the fonts I can't remember the name of). This doesn't happen with epubs.
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