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Old 05-16-2026, 03:42 PM   #61
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Garamond is a terrible font for eInk.
That's been my experience with it on my ereader. As I related in my last post, to me, it just looks too thin. To find an alternative, I printed a font sample sheet and compared the different fonts against each other. That led me to choose Bookman Old Style.
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Old 05-16-2026, 09:42 PM   #62
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Garamond is a terrible font for eInk.
With some extra weight, it's not that bad but does not make my top 10 list.
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Old 05-17-2026, 06:39 AM   #63
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Garamond is used a lot as an embedded font because the publisher wants to make the eBook look like the pBook.
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With some extra weight, it's not that bad but does not make my top 10 list.
I'd rather choose a font where the base/default form doesn't need to be adjusted to make it acceptable. That's why I chose Bookman Old Style, it looks similar to Garamond but it didn't need an adjustment to look fine.
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Libertinus Serif, Fern, Gentium, Fira Sans Condensed. Also, if you like condensed monospaced font (like I do), check out Iosevka and PragmataPro. I own the latter, an expensive purchase but feeling less and less so the more I use it.
I've just discovered Merriweather. It is excellent.
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Plenty of ideas in A tally of types, from Stanley Morison.

This version has each passage set in the font it's talking about:
https://archive.org/details/tallyoft...ge/92/mode/2up
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Plenty of ideas in A tally of types, from Stanley Morison.

This version has each passage set in the font it's talking about:
https://archive.org/details/tallyoft...ge/92/mode/2up
How is that useful when it's just a very limited preview with most of the pages missing?
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How is that useful when it's just a very limited preview with most of the pages missing?
If you select the Borrow option you'll see the full book.
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