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Old 11-27-2009, 02:46 PM   #18
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Thanks!

Droid: I think so, too!!

If there are free fonts around that others want me to try, please let me know! No fantasy fonts, please!
Linux Libertine looks good.
You can also download "Microsoft Web Fonts" from many, many places (see the bottom of Wikipedia page) and try some of their fonts.
I have also found Grandesign Neue Serif.ttf - a nice slab serif.
I also like temporarium_regular.ttf but I did not find matching italics.

I have tried perhaps 30 fonts.
I found out, that you want to find a font that was designed as a ttf font.
I was able to get the famous Caecilia to play with a little - I used to do lots of professional desktop publishing. The problem was I got it in otf format. I converted it using FontForge, but the result on PocketBook screen was very disappointing. The font lost its hinting info in the conversion and I quickly returned to unconverted ttf fonts.
I have also tried a few versions of Garamond font, but it somehow did not look right on my screen.

Also see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_so..._Unicode_fonts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...type_designers
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