Content Paperwhite 2024 Owners What’s Your Favorite Font?

[sitrucz]

I’ve tried chareink and a few others but I like Bookerly at 6 with Bold at 1. How about you?


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[cvkemp]

Bookerly 5 bold 2

[axu2]

I use a Scribe but I love Amazon Ember bold 2 size 6, and it's also available on Kindle for Android.

[texasnightowl]

Not a 2024 model, but I do have an 11th gen and a 10th gen and I've been playing around with Luciole and Merriweather.

[JSWolf]

On a PW5, I find ChareInk6SP looks quite good. With KF8 it does two things. It reduces the absurdly large default line height and it gives more characters per line at the font size chosen.

I do not like slab serif fonts which Bookerly is one of them.

[beedaddy]

I like Literata (on all devices).

[jlinear]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

On a PW5, I find ChareInk6SP looks quite good.

I like CharInk6SP as well. It looks great with KOReader.

[sitrucz]

Originally Posted by jlinear

I like CharInk6SP as well. It looks great with KOReader.

Where do I get CharInk6SP?

[jlinear]

Originally Posted by sitrucz

Where do I get CharInk6SP?

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056

[JSWolf]

With ChareInk6SP for a Kindle, use NoWeight version. Inside the ZIP file is a directory called Hinted. Use that version as the Kindle prefers fonts to be hinted.

[tomsem]

I do not have one. I use different fonts on different devices, and would use different fonts on different books on same device if that feature existed (apart from embedding fonts).

I have this idea that it helps with retention, and confers some cognitive flexibility for reading things in the wild, fixed layout books, non Amazon reading platforms, etc.

And even if there are no measurable cognitive benefits, the notion of using only a favorite font is to me like eating the same food for every meal. It's boring and probably not very healthy. I like variety.

[jlinear]

Originally Posted by tomsem

I do not have one. I use different fonts on different devices, and would use different fonts on different books on same device if that feature existed (apart from embedding fonts).

This exists with KOReader. But, I recall, you don't care for KOReader.

[Frogm4n]

I prefer to read with Atkinson Hyperlegible wherever I can.

[tomsem]

Originally Posted by jlinear

This exists with KOReader. But, I recall, you don't care for KOReader.

This is indeed the case, but appreciate the information.

It would take a lot more more than that to make it appealing to me; my main issue with KOReader is that it has far too many features. And the more streamlined KOReader that would appeal probably wouldn't have this feature!

My only hope is that some study supports my theory about the cognitive benefits of font variety, goes viral and vendors scramble to add the feature.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by tomsem

And even if there are no measurable cognitive benefits, the notion of using only a favorite font is to me like eating the same food for every meal. It's boring and probably not very healthy. I like variety.

Whereas for me, the opposite is true. I use one font for most ebooks since I like a font that does not annoy me when reading which too many <expletive deleted> fonts tend to do when I start noticing the bowl for that b is out of proportion, the ear on that g is way too large, the spur on the G looks more like a slab serif, etc..

I do use monospaced fonts for computer text and specialty fonts where needed such as using the Fāng Zhèng Shū Sòng (FangSong for short) font for Chinese characters in Cixin Liu's The Three-body Problem series or an Enochian font for the golems' angelic language in Terry Pratchett's books but those uses are few and far between.