What's your favorite font to read in?

[Atunah]

Must be a serif font for me. My eyes aren't the best and those work best for me. I only read on kindle e-ink readers so the first one (K1) I think started with the caecelia. Then on the K3 it was the condensed version of it. When I got me PW1, I had a hard time finding the right font on it with the right size. Palatino was ok, but to large or to small, baskerville to thin and for some reason its caecelia never as nice as the one on the K3.

I now read on my basic kindle and the font is perfect again with the caecelia condensed.

[taming]

I almost always use Amasis on my Kobo HD. I take advantage of the font tuning that's built into Kobo eink devices and make it a bit darker.

[Blossom]

Originally Posted by taming

I almost always use Amasis on my Kobo HD. I take advantage of the font tuning that's built into Kobo eink devices and make it a bit darker.

Oh that's a cool feature I did it the hard the way and modified the actual font to make it darker. Amasis seems to be such a small font I enlarged it by 10% so it sizes right in my eReaders.

[library addict]

I like PT Sans on my tablet. I never changed the font on my Sony, so not sure what it is.

[sneakyspider]

I'm very picky about fonts. I've never been able to find a font that's perfect for me, so as I result I've gone through a lot of them. However, I do have a few favorites.

• CrimsonText
• Lusitana
• Amasis
• FanwoodText
• (Modified) Linux Libertine
• Adobe Garamond Pro
• Habibi
• Trykker
• Merriweather Sans
• Esteban
• Charis SIL Compact
• Kreon
• Patrick Hand
• Vollkorn
• Tienne
• Comic Sans

I'm going through a period at the moment where I quite like reading in bold, "messy,"/handwritten fonts. My current favorite is the Comic Sans font that came with a Duokan installation on my K4. I've actually been using it for a week or more, which is something of a record for me.

[tubemonkey]

My favorite font is whatever the publisher chooses. I don't change the settings.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by Tizzalicious

I played around with it a little bit, but I didn't like any of the other ones. That might have been because I don't really like change though

This can be caused after you use a font a long time. All other fonts start to look "wrong".

Do you have a favorite font for reading? Do you prefer serif or sans serif fonts? Or do you just leave the font that is standard for the book you're reading?

I've been using my own modified version of DejaVu Serif for a long time. It works on the KPW1, but it requires a reconversion for the KPW2 as this reader does not support custom fonts anymore. (The KPW1 also doesn't, but it can be done using a hack.)

Therefore I've started to look into other fonts. Now, my favorite font is Palatino, on the KPW1. I'm now used to that font, and the one I started out with at the very beginning (Caecilia) now looks extremely fat and clunky.

Honestly, the only two decent fonts in the KPW1 are Palatino and Baskerville, depending if you want a somewhat larger or smaller font. (At the same size setting, Palatino is about half a size bigger than Baskerville.)

When reading books, I really don't like sans-serif fonts. None of my books ever used that. for websites, I don't really care.

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by GeoffR

Georgia is very nice, a bit too dark but that can be adjusted. However I don't like its "lower case" style numerals, so if I'm reading a book that has a lot of numbers then I use another serif font such as Amasis instead.

The numerals are the one thing I *really* like about Georgia.

If I need to write something that uses a lot of numbers, I tend to use Georgia.

Originally Posted by sneakyspider

However, I do have a few favorites.

...
Comic Sans

I just filed a ban request. It's forbidden to like that font.

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/

[VictoriaP]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

I've been using my own modified version of DejaVu Serif for a long time. It works on the KPW1, but it requires a reconversion for the KPW2 as this reader does not support custom fonts anymore. (The KPW1 also doesn't, but it can be done using a hack.)

The KPW2 *does* work with NiLuJe's font hack once you jailbreak it. The fonts don't show in the menu, and you must use overrides, but it works just fine. That's how I've been running JSWolf's modified CharisSIL.

It takes a little effort to set up, but it's less work than having to embed fonts in all my books & then sideload them.

(I love Palatino, but not on the PW. It needs a bit more weight for my eyes.)

[Katsunami]

Originally Posted by VictoriaP

The KPW2 *does* work with NiLuJe's font hack once you jailbreak it.

I don't want to jailbreak the device...

[PurpleStar]

I have been using Georgia lately, as it seems the right size of font. I also like Amasis, but sometimes it's either too big or too small.

[VictoriaP]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

I don't want to jailbreak the device...

Ah, understandable. I've jailbroken for fonts since the K2--it was basically a necessity with the lower contrast screen on that model, so I didn't hesitate at doing the same to the PW2. It's a pity that Amazon got rid of the workaround that so many used with the PW1.

[Hrafn]

I've used Droid Sans exclusively on my two eInk readers, and am very happy with it.

[sneakyspider]

Originally Posted by Katsunami

I just filed a ban request. It's forbidden to like that font.

http://www.comicsanscriminal.com/

What can I say? I'm a rebel.

[Yapyap]

I generally read with Palatino (size third from the smallest) on PW1.

There was one book recently that had odd text size, so no Palatino size was comfortable, and after a lot of experimenting I ended up with Caecilia condensed at some medium size.

The default (Caecilia) was very comfortable on Kindle 3 but somehow it doesn't work nearly as well on the Paperwhite.