How Many Fonts

[jackm8]

About 30 on the devices, around 20,000 on hard drive on pc.

[BanditoB]

Very interesting! Thanks, everyone for contributing!

I just loaded a bunch of the recommended fonts from the other thread that I mentioned, but have not yet had a chance to test them out to see which I prefer.

I’m sure that I’ll be like the majority have said, and narrow it down to one or two preferred fonts and then ignore the rest and eventually remove them from my Kindles.

I also have a couple of Boox devices, but haven’t added or tried to play around with fonts on them as of yet. Maybe someday I’ll get to them.

[bluepeter]

Originally Posted by BanditoB

I also have a couple of Boox devices, but haven’t added or tried to play around with fonts on them as of yet. Maybe someday I’ll get to them.

I can't say that I like the way that the Boox v.3 engine handles user-loaded fonts.

I bought a Go 7 last week, and immediately loaded my favoured font onto it. I then spent far too long going round in circles trying to use it. It turned out that it didn't add my font to the main list (as other devices, including the v.2 Boox engine, do). Instead, you have to select a separate Import tab. That holds user-loaded fonts, and only those fonts, in their own list. Still, I got there in the end.

[Solitaire1]

My Nook Glowlight 4 has the following fonts:

• Ascender Sans
• Baskerville
• Georgia (the one I normally choose)
• Joanna Sans
• Mundo Sans
• Malabar
• OpenDystexic

[Sirtel]

Originally Posted by Solitaire1

My Nook Glowlight 4 has the following fonts:

• Ascender Sans
• Baskerville
• Georgia (the one I normally choose)
• Joanna Sans
• Mundo Sans
• Malabar
• OpenDystexic

AFAIK you can't sideload fonts to a Nook, can you?

[Solitaire1]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

AFAIK you can't sideload fonts to a Nook, can you?

I don't know. I haven't felt the need to add fonts since the pre-loaded fonts offer the basic types of fonts (such as serif and san serif) that are good enough for me.

[ZodWallop]

I have maybe four. But I only use Scriptoria (done by a fellow MR member). It's basically a revised version of Literata Book.

[Canis_lupus]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

AFAIK you can't sideload fonts to a Nook, can you?

No, fonts can’t be sideloaded to stock Nooks.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by Sirtel

AFAIK you can't sideload fonts to a Nook, can you?

You can't side load on a nook. But because it runs RMSDK, you may be able to stick some fonts in a fonts directory and call on the fonts from the CSS. I can do this on a Sony Reader using RMSDK.

This is how you do it on a Kobo with RMSDK.

@font-face {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url("res:///fonts/normal/Dark Courier");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: normal;
  src: url("res:///fonts/bold/Dark Courier");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url("res:///fonts/italic/Dark Courier");
}
@font-face {
  font-family: monospace;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-style: italic;
  src: url("res:///fonts/bolditalic/Dark Courier");
}

The only thing is that on a nook, there no ability to add weight to the fonts. So you'd need to add weight in a font editor.