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Originally Posted by lionfish
hi ahi,
I usually use 华文中宋 as the main font, whether LRF or PDF. with Kai or FangSong as titles or book index etc. 华文中宋 looks a bit heavier than real book typefaces but quite pleasant on eInk screen. I have tried 10+ Ming/Song fonts and I think 华文中宋 gives the best, though not perfect, result. Another font called 方正书宋_GBK is also worth your consideration.
Both 华文中宋 and 方正书宋 comes with 10000+ characters and quite sufficient for general purposes. But if you want to present older books or poems, you might encounter missing character problems.
Unlike Ascii fonts, Chinese fonts with big character set are quite limited and you don't have too many selections there.
Attached is a pdf file I generated.
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I was just measuring across your line and noticed you had 22 characters per horizontal on the screen, which is where the heavier (5-7pt) fonts start to improve in appearance, but Ming fonts start getting troublesome to read when characters (and their serifs) are that large relative to the page. For my Ming/Song fonts, I have been trying to use DynaComWare DFLiSong W5 (traditional), and I get fairly similar results. I think perhaps I'm just being a snob about e-ink and dislike the way it shows just about anything.
Problem is, do I set books with a typeface that is pleasant to read (Hei/Yuan) at reasonably small sizes on e-ink, or do I set books with a typeface that will be more appropriate to the material and perhaps readable in the future when screen technology improves? If typesetting a paper book the size of an e-ink screen, I'd have to use much lighter and smaller Ming faces to take advantage of Ming's readability.
Here's one more file with my clearest Ming (pg1) and clearest Kai (pg3) on e-ink. Both are usable I think, but I tend to scrutinize, and I don't like the way they look up close. They're also a bit bold-leaning which may be a problem at times. Again though, I'm only going off intuition...I've not seen any paragraph readability studies done in a manner that is relevant to this.
