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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I've never been able to get Minion to look pleasant to my eye, no matter what I do.
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There are quite a few fonts that should look great on my PocketBook 360, but, somehow, they just ... don't.
I was looking forward to trying out Caecilia PNM, for example, and when I was finally able to locate it (I still have lots of friends working at DTP) I was very disappointed. I think the version of Caecilia I was testing did not have hinting information my PocketBook could use. I very much hope, Caecilia on Kindle (their default font) looks better than the version I was trying it out ;-)
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
I've had far better luck with Arno Pro (SmText), Garamond Premier Pro (Caption), and Chaparral Pro (Caption).
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This is why I spent considerable amount of time trying out various fonts on my reader. Some fonts just work surprisingly well on my reader and you have to try to find out.
I strive for a very uniform "typographical grey" so the most important thing to me is that no letter "stands out" attracting my eye when I read.
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Originally Posted by LDBoblo
In any event, the font choice itself is not the only important factor. Leading in particular needs to be considered, along with kerning and word spacing.
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I wrote lots of rants about fully justified texts on Sony reader. They just do not look right. The typographical grey is way too uneven. With haphazardly executed (or missing) hyphenation, short lines (thanks to ridiculously wide margins in some books) there are very wide gaps between words, rivers and other things.
By the way, iBooks received some unpleasant reviews from typographers for exactly same reasons.
So the configurability of my PocketBook is very important. The ability to override margins, justification, font, line spacing, even hyphenation and contraction of spaces between words is crucial.