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Old 11-29-2009, 10:49 AM   #31
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Sans serif font?

Let's limit it to free fonts.

The URW Fonts bundle contains URW Gothic L, which is a Century Gothic clone.

Look here:
http://www.artifex.com/downloads/
There are some others in there you might like, including Nimbus Sans L, a Helvetica clone.


Similar clones can be found in the TeX Gyre bundle, which may contain more of the character set you need. Go here:
http://www.gust.org.pl/projects/e-foundry/tex-gyre/

Another nice free general-use sans-serif font I like is Droid Sans:

You can download the droid fonts here:
http://damieng.com/blog/2007/11/14/d...oogle-ascender

There are a lot of other free sans fonts to choose from (if you know where to look): Deja Vu Sans, FreeSans, Liberation Sans, Luxi Sans, CM Bright, Bera Sans, etc. For something wilder, look at Jura. If you want to go really wild, check out the hundreds of decorative fonts provided for free by Larabie Fonts.

No clue whether these have the special characters you need.
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Old 11-30-2009, 07:36 AM   #32
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I'm now using Calibri on everything. It's a great font, and it looks very clear on my reader. At the small size that my reader displays Calibri looks nice and chunky and it seems to improve contrast.
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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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Old 05-05-2011, 07:55 AM   #34
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Recently I have discovered Ubuntu Font Family http://font.ubuntu.com/

At first I was afraid that it is too minimalistic. Relatively large x-height, "crossings" on letters 't' and 'f' are very unusual, 'r' looks weird. But, the result is very, very nice. In FAQ they say that "extensive manual hinting was performed" and I think it shows.

Great font. And free. And it comes in four weights - Light, Regular, Medium and Bold, in Normal and Italics
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If anyone wants to talk about fonts, please use this thread as it has a lot of very useful information.

When publishers embed fonts, they usually use "Charis SIL". Charis does have one problem. When you use the default line-height it is too close. So the publisher uses a line-height of 1.2em. I find a line-height of 1.1em to be better. But some may like the default line spacing.

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/p...#FontsDownload
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Old 05-09-2011, 11:56 PM   #36
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I'm now using Calibri on everything. It's a great font, and it looks very clear on my reader. At the small size that my reader displays Calibri looks nice and chunky and it seems to improve contrast.
I like Calibri too!! It looks very nice, but I am thinking that it is good for non-fiction especially and will search for a fictional font.
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Old 05-10-2011, 10:30 AM   #37
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I like Calibri too!! It looks very nice, but I am thinking that it is good for non-fiction especially and will search for a fictional font.
For a fictional font, I like Fontin. I am also getting quite used to Charis SIL. I'm not a fan of sans-serif as the main text. But a good sans-serif works well for headers and titles.
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Old 05-16-2011, 04:58 PM   #38
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It would be nice to compile a list of open license fonts that look nice.

Let me here recommend:
Vollkorn



The Paratype fonts (PT Sans and PT Serif), available a variety of places
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It would be nice to compile a list of open license fonts that look nice.

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The Paratype fonts (PT Sans and PT Serif), available a variety of places
there is a list in the wiki if people want to add to it. Look under fonts.
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there is a list in the wiki if people want to add to it. Look under fonts.
That's just a list of links for font downloads, and some of them to sites that look shady to me. (e.g., webPagepublicity.com).

I'd prefer something like a list of fonts, which explicitly listed what the licenses were for each font, and provided a sample. Just because a font is free to download of course, doesn't mean that you have the right to embed it in an ePub and redistribute it on a site like this one.

But rather than whine, I should just go ahead and create a new wiki page myself. Maybe I'll try that when a get a chance.
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That's just a list of links for font downloads, and some of them to sites that look shady to me. (e.g., webPagepublicity.com).

I'd prefer something like a list of fonts, which explicitly listed what the licenses were for each font, and provided a sample. Just because a font is free to download of course, doesn't mean that you have the right to embed it in an ePub and redistribute it on a site like this one.

But rather than whine, I should just go ahead and create a new wiki page myself. Maybe I'll try that when a get a chance.
That is actually s very good idea. I'll help where I can.
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That's just a list of links for font downloads, and some of them to sites that look shady to me. (e.g., webPagepublicity.com).

I'd prefer something like a list of fonts, which explicitly listed what the licenses were for each font, and provided a sample. Just because a font is free to download of course, doesn't mean that you have the right to embed it in an ePub and redistribute it on a site like this one.

But rather than whine, I should just go ahead and create a new wiki page myself. Maybe I'll try that when a get a chance.
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That is actually s very good idea. I'll help where I can.
I'd like to help with that as well. Perhaps a list of fonts under open licenses such as the Open Font License and Ubuntu Font License and another list of font under the proprietary licenses such as Myriad Web and Minion Web? If so, I can create the pages and we can all start working on it.
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Old 07-26-2011, 03:29 PM   #43
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I've been through a LOT of fonts, and always find my way back to Minion Caption. I haven't changed it in over 6 months, nor will I likely. I should have taken screenshots of each when I was actively changing my fonts, but for the most part they displayed too light or frequently cut off at magins.
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I'll certainly support Minion, which I never fail to admire, and the Caption variant works well on eInk. But it's not much use for those creating ebooks they want to distribute, as there's no way to licence it for embedding in an ePub.

There certainly is a variety of fonts that do allow this, though, and fonts like Linux Libertine or Volkorn offer some very handsome alternatives.

A few other fonts worth knowing about are:

The Vera family - highly functional, but not really very elegant:
Bitstream Vera
DejaVu - an enhanced version of Vera
Arev - Vera which has been expanded to cover an extremely wide Unicode range

Legendum and Garogier - possibly a bit too light for use on an eInk screen.

Junicode - designed for use in Old English and also a bit too light.

The URW font set - A very wide set of fonts that includes some favourites like Garamond. Unfortunately this is not licensed for commercial distribution, but as long as money isn't changing hands you can embed them in public domain ePubs.

A good list of free fonts can be found at http://delubrum.org/.
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