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Old 10-27-2015, 06:01 AM   #301
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Hi

Do you know Buenard?

Buenard exists only with a regular (400) and bold (700) font. It looks like Baskerville, though it's a different font.

As a regular-and free- font, I find Buenard amazing. You can side-load it with Kobo, and, it also works very well, if need be, with the advanced font control from Metazoa.

Another comparison.
It looks like a very nice font. Unfortunately, it doesn't have any italics variant, which is a showstopper for me.

I never want to return to the days of the Sony PRS-505 and its lack of true italics!
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Old 10-27-2015, 01:45 PM   #302
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Same opinion here. Really good font but it's a shame the lack of italics.
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Old 12-04-2015, 03:22 PM   #303
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I have a Glo HD and I'm having a lot of problems with using Charis as my main font.

Its spliting the last line of text in two halves, with the top part of the line at the bottom of the page and the bottom of the line at the top of the next page. I have tried increasing the line spacing starting at the narrowest setting but its not making any difference unless I make the lines so wide apart I only get 17 lines of text.

I am reading calibre created kepubs with the standard headers and footers as I don't have full screen reading in the config file. Is there anything I can do to get Charis working with more lines of text on the page? Its fine on my H20 but that has a larger screen.

I don't understand patching so I don't really want to start playing around like that.
I have the exact same problem with the Modified Charis font as well, in kepubs. The same splitting on the last line is also evident in the Amassis font as well. For that reason, I switched to the modified Times Roman font, which I love. I'll try the Charis Compact font, and see how that works.

EDIT: The Compact Charis font worked, but I have since switched to Bookerly. I extracted the fonts from the latest Voyage firmware, and put the Bookerly font on the Kobo. Lovely font. Really love it.

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Old 12-10-2015, 08:32 AM   #304
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I extracted the fonts from the latest Voyage firmware, and put the Bookerly font on the Kobo. Lovely font. Really love it.
Do you have a guide for this?
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Old 12-10-2015, 09:04 AM   #305
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@radbaddude: You're treading on very thin water asking that. The fonts are copyrighted and MobileRead does not condone asking for help in pirating ANYTHING.
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Old 12-10-2015, 03:59 PM   #307
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@radbaddude: You're treading on very thin water asking that. The fonts are copyrighted and MobileRead does not condone asking for help in pirating ANYTHING.
I know technically it might be pirating, but morally, I think not since Amazon makes them accessible.
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Old 12-10-2015, 06:23 PM   #308
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Bitter HT is quite good alternative for Bookerly font. I even like it more. And it's free.
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Old 12-11-2015, 07:40 AM   #309
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@radbaddude: You're treading on very thin water asking that. The fonts are copyrighted and MobileRead does not condone asking for help in pirating ANYTHING.
Well, I wasn't asking for the font. I own a PW3 with the bookerly font. I was merely looking for instruction. Understood though. Didn't even think about the font copyright.
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Old 12-12-2015, 02:09 PM   #311
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Bitter HT is quite good alternative for Bookerly font. I even like it more. And it's free.
What's the difference between Bitter HT and Bitter? I couldn't find any info.
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Old 12-12-2015, 02:40 PM   #312
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AFAIK there are no official different versions of this font. Bitter is a font by Huerta Tipografica, which might explain the HT.
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Old 12-13-2015, 03:12 PM   #313
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Bitter HT is quite good alternative for Bookerly font. I even like it more. And it's free.
One problem I've noticed with Bitter is that, although it has a lot of kerning pairs, it is missing kerning for some of the most obvious cases such as Wo, Ve, etc.

Edit: A good example of the problem is that it includes kerning for the rare pair Xe, but no kerning for the much more common We, Ve, Ye.

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I get that there is a trend to use slab serifs for the body texts, there is even slab serifs like Caecilia that is designed for body; but I am never really comfortable with them.
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Old 12-13-2015, 05:59 PM   #315
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One problem I've noticed with Bitter is that, although it has a lot of kerning pairs, it is missing kerning for some of the most obvious cases such as Wo, Ve, etc.

Edit: A good example of the problem is that it includes kerning for the rare pair Xe, but no kerning for the much more common We, Ve, Ye.
It's not hard thing to fix.
Since Alreader on my Nook does't support kerning I haven't noticed that.
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