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Originally Posted by hobnail
On an e-reader the best fonts are what are called low contrast fonts, a term that doesn't mean the same thing as with images. A low contrast font has less difference between the thick parts of a glyph and the thin parts. For example, if you look at the capital O in Georgia, it's noticeably thicker on the sides and much thinner at the top and bottom. Compare that to the font that everyone loves to hate, Comic Sans, and the difference between the sides and top/bottom is nearly nonexistent. Fonts with sharp points on the serifs aren't low contrast. I prefer a font with serifs and finding nice low contrast fonts there is hard. The ones I currently use are Bitter, Alegreya, and Literata.
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Yes. I think eink would need to be 400 dpi to 600 dpi rather than 300 dpi to use the same range of fonts as on paper. I tried some fonts I really liked in Paperback novels and they were poor on 300 dpi at my normal reading size and distance.
You notice on the 150 dpi (9.7″ screens) and 167 dpi screens that the fonts that are OK on 300 dpi or on a 5″ screen don't look so good.