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Old 09-07-2009, 07:54 PM   #7
sip
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Device: PRS-505
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Originally Posted by radius View Post
I have been using Adobe's Minion and Myriad pair for reading epubs with, and Minion is very legible and attractive to me.
As a designer, I absolutely love Minion for body text and Myriad for headings and sub-headings. I noticed one or two publishers used Minion for their fiction titles a few back, but most I think prefer Times New Roman (ughh).

Although a sans-serif, I recently started using MS Calibri for some of my shorter texts and have started using it on my iPhone -- it seems to display well on the PRS-505. Microsoft installs this font with MS Office 2007 (Win) and also Office 2008 (Mac).

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One of the Microsoft ClearType fonts, included in Windows Vista and Microsoft Office 2007, designed to give clearer on-screen rendering by using dithering at the RGB pixel level.

An OpenType font that includes both lining figures and oldstyle figures.

If you want a nice legible/readable fixed-width font, try Inconsolata or even MS Consolas

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