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Originally Posted by radius
Hmmm... In previous surveys here at Mobileread, most respondents indicated that they are generally satisfied with the second generation e-ink screens and almost nobody felt they needed higher resolution.
However, the majority of font sample screenshots from this thread show that people like robust letterforms with uniform stroke width and slab serifs (and possibly large font sizes, its unclear if people are showing their normal reading size or are showing larger sizes for easier comparison on-line).
I bet this means that the pixel density and the contrast of the screen aren't yet high enough to be very satisfactory at all or else we could choose more delicate fonts.
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Oh, I absolutely agree that the pixel density limits the choices of fonts that look good on e-ink screens. I've gone through about twenty fonts that look great in print, but only a handful work okay on my 505's screen. And it's almost entirely due to the amount of modulation in stroke width (I can't even imagine what a Bodoni would look like on here, nor will I even waste the time attempting it).
I also think it's interesting to see the number of people that seem to love Caecilia for a body font (no doubt due to Amazon's choice of it for the Kindle). Don't get me wrong, it's a nice typeface, but book bodies are not a place I would tend to use it. I think it's more suited towards magazine articles and other shorter form texts. OTOH, Amazon chose it because it is a fairly neutral typeface (tending towards cold, IMHO) that has very little stroke modulation, so it does render pretty well at multiple sizes on low pixel-density e-ink screens.