Thread: What font(s) do you like?
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Old 11-30-2009, 12:56 PM   #33
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I haven't tried it out, but Biolinum looks too subtle to show to best advantage on a current e-ink screen unless used at very large size. Wouldn't all the uprights become just plain, straight lines in the reader at typical sizes?
The effect is subtle, but I can certainly still tell the difference between it and a plain sans serif font. I like the subtlety, but to each their own.

Anyway, here's how it looks with a 12pt font on a 90x120mm such as that of the my Sony Reader 505:



I wish I could do an actual screen shot--it's actually a little sharper on the reader.
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