What's you're favorite E-reader fonts?

[ST-One]

I'm not (yet) using a Sony reader, but I really like the Gill Sans font-family. I hope it renders as good on my (hopefully soon arriving) PRS-950 as it does on the Nook.
I like the clarity of the font and the fact that I can have a line spacing of just 1 with it, which gives me more text per page/less page-turnes

[colibris79]

Fontin on my 350 and I created a modified version of Fontin (which is a little bit bolder) in my 505

[Phil_C]

Originally Posted by BCotton

How do you do that, increase the line spacing? I have seen people use these together:

p { line-height: 130% }
div { line-height: 130% }

Do you need both?

I don't really do HTML, but use a series of programs to get the results I want. Because of the way I started making LRFs with Book Designer, it developed that I now use BD to save as an HTM file. Next is Sigil to adjust font and chapters. Finally Calibre.

So I'm not sure what takes precedence when.

Here is what is in Sigil:

    body.sgc-8 {FONT-WEIGHT:normal; 
FONT-SIZE:small; 
MARGIN-BOTTOM:245px; 
LINE-HEIGHT:131%; 
FONT-FAMILY:GeorgiaEInk15}

And this is what I use to run through Calibre:

@font-face {
 font-family: GeorgiaEInk15;
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: normal;
 src: url(res:///Data/fonts/GeorgiaEInk15.ttf);
}
@font-face {
 font-family: GeorgiaEInk15;
 font-weight: bold;
 font-style: normal;
 src: url(res:///Data/fonts/GeorgiaEInk15Bold.ttf);
}
@font-face {
 font-family: GeorgiaEInk15;
 font-weight: normal;
 font-style: italic;
 src: url(res:///Data/fonts/GeorgiaEInk15Italic.ttf);
}
@font-face {
 font-family: GeorgiaEInk15;
 font-weight: bold;
 font-style: italic;
 src: url(res:///Data/fonts/GeorgiaEInk15-BoldItalic.ttf);
}
body {
 font-family: GeorgiaEInk15;
 line-height: 131%;
}

My guess is that BD puts out kind of strange HTML. So I don't know how to control my end result in a more efficient way. But this works in the end.

Maybe these examples will at least give you more information.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by delphin

If you are referring to my work on a new Nimbus font - Sorry, I was out of town last week, and over the weekend.

Now that I'm back, hope to have something soon . . .

Hi

Any progress on completing the Nimbus Mod fonts?

[prsita]

Waiting for the NimbusMe fonts still missing (delphin, apparently, have abandoned us), j use GeorgiaEInk15, wich is semibold and have a good rendering.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by prsita

Waiting for the NimbusMe fonts still missing (delphin, apparently, have abandoned us), j use GeorgiaEInk15, wich is semibold and have a good rendering.

Is this a free or a proprietary font? I did a quick search but was unable to find it. Have you got a link?

[DoctorOhh]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

Is this a free or a proprietary font? I did a quick search but was unable to find it. Have you got a link?

I use the GeorgiaEInk25 the link is found here.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by dwanthny

I use the GeorgiaEInk25 the link is found here.

Thanks very much for the information.

Currently I am using Liberation serif which I find very clean and clear but I would like to get two or three nice fonts for a bit of variety.

[yegon]

Trebuchet MS.

Clean and simple, but not too clean and simple.

[Barty]

Amasis

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/att...4&d=1314808223

I've modified to make it semibold. Easier on my eyes that way.

[Thasaidon]

Originally Posted by yegon

Trebuchet MS.

Clean and simple, but not too clean and simple.

I agree but it does not meet my needs. I have poor eyesight. I therefore convert my ebooks to a base font of 18pt. This allows me to reduce the font size on my ereader to 12pt, which I find confortable. It also means I have some enlargement in hand if my eyes deteriorate.

I prefer serif fonts for aesthetic reasons and because I find them easier to read. At 12pt I find the serifs display well.

I have recently adodpted Liberation Serif as my font for the following reasons:-

1. It is a serif font
2. It characters appear to have a good contrast (some fonts seem grayish)
3. It allows a goodly amount of text on a page
4. It is free
5. I find it aesthetically acceptable

i have added Clearface and Lido STF CE to the collection of fonts I will use for the above reasons and to add a little variety to my ebooks.

I have tried but rejected the following fonts:-

DejaVu Serif
Garamond
Georgia EInk
Lucida Bright
Minion Pro

And other fonts which either are not free or do not have italic and or bold types in their family. But if anyone has any other suggestions which meet reasons 1-4, I would like to have a look at them.

Thanks

[kacir]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

And other fonts which either are not free or do not have italic and or bold types in their family. But if anyone has any other suggestions which meet reasons 1-4, I would like to have a look at them.

I used to use Gentium. It is not a serif font, but it isn't quite san-serif either. Have a look.

Now I use Ubuntu font. It is san-serif and very minimalistic, but since I have loaded it into my reader I haven't used anything else. It is professionally designed font and has very well tweaked hinting.
At large sizes on computer screen it looks ... weird. You have to try it on reader. It looks surprisingly well.
http://font.ubuntu.com/

For a choice of good, professional fonts see http://www.google.com/webfonts

[vishcompany]

Thanks kacir for this recommendation. It really looks surprisingly well on eInk.

Ubuntu font also reads very fluently, which turned out to be a criteria to me, when starting to experiment with fonts during the last weeks.

At the moment I have installed:
Angleterre (nice for English mystery)
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Serif
Fontin
FreeSerif
Gentium
Georgia EInk
Goudy Bookletter 1911 (even more beautiful than Angleterre, but a bit slow to read)
LexiaDaMa
Liberation Serif
Palatia
Ubuntu

All of them are fine (I tried more), however, mostly I use:

Fontin, Palatin, Gentium and now Ubuntu.

[Thasaidon]

[QUOTE=vishcompany;1801288]Thanks kacir for this recommendation. It really looks surprisingly well on eInk.

Ubuntu font also reads very fluently, which turned out to be a criteria to me, when starting to experiment with fonts during the last weeks.

At the moment I have installed:
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Thanks for the list I got the name of five fonts which I had not tried. I will give them a try in the next few days and see how I get on with them.

I also want to compile a list of the fonts I have evaluated , with comments. It wil only contain free serif and semi serif types. I will then post the list if someone has not already posted something similar, which I have missed.

[kacir]

Originally Posted by Thasaidon

Thanks for the list I got the name of five fonts which I had not tried. I will give them a try in the next few days and see how I get on with them.

I also want to compile a list of the fonts I have evaluated , with comments. It wil only contain free serif and semi serif types. I will then post the list if someone has not already posted something similar, which I have missed.

I have been following / commenting in numerous threads concerning the best font. I see the same things coming up again and again and again.

Perhaps you could start a Wiki page with the commented list of fonts and then start discussion. If several people submit their favorites (I certainly will), free, not-quite-free and also commercial we could cover quite a lot of options.
Then when there is new thread about fonts, we could just point people to our wiki.

Wiki is accessible through the link at the top of this page.