Summary of Modified Fonts

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JeanPierre

I personally prefer 36pt, and find 7pt too round. However, given your considerable expertise on the subject of e-ink fonts, I am curious about something: is there an objective reason for that statement or is it just a subjective preference? If the information helps, my device is the Aura ONE.

With the 7pt, all the lines are the same width. With the 36pt, some of the lines are thinner. 7pt is more uniform and better for a hi-res eInk screen. because of the uniformity of the lines. 12pt is OK as well. But 36pt is where you star getting the noticeable thinning of some lines.

I did try the font last night and found that it didn't work well. The spacing was off (IMHO). Too much space between the letters.

[JeanPierre]

v3.002 was a bit of a pain to get working on my device, so I've attached working versions that have been run through ReadyifyFont to this post to spare others the bother.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by JeanPierre

v3.002 was a bit of a pain to get working on my device, so I've attached working versions that have been run through ReadyifyFont to this post to spare others the bother.

I had no trouble getting the fonts working. What trouble did you have? Do you have the patch to allow the advanced font control to work on side loaded fonts? If not, it could be why you had trouble.

[MGlitch]

Are any of the changes made in 3.002 actually relevant to how Literata will display on a Kobo?

[JeanPierre]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I had no trouble getting the fonts working. What trouble did you have? Do you have the patch to allow the advanced font control to work on side loaded fonts? If not, it could be why you had trouble.

When I copied them over and selected them, it was showing me Georgia. Yes, I have that patch.

EDIT – After you said this I decided to try again to copy over the fonts, and then rebooting to see if it would let me select them, but it still doesn't work. I think it has something to do with the font name not matching the file name.

Originally Posted by MGlitch

Are any of the changes made in 3.002 actually relevant to how Literata will display on a Kobo?

There's a nice new ligature for "Th" that you'll notice on all variants. The 12pt variant is very similar to the v2.201 release, but you'll certainly notice the difference with the other variants. I don't think that the 7pt and 72pt variants are worth considering for use.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by JSWolf

I did try the font last night and found that it didn't work well. The spacing was off (IMHO). Too much space between the letters.

I agree. That's why I use Literata Book.

Here's two pics of my Kobo, one showing the new 36pt Literata and the other showing Literata Book. Both have the same font settings including line height slid all the way to the left.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by ZodWallop

I agree. That's why I use Literata Book.

Here's two pics of my Kobo, one showing the new 36pt Literata and the other showing Literata Book. Both have the same font settings including line height slid all the way to the left.

Literata Book does look a lot better then Literata.

[gogu1904]

I was searching for updates to Literata Book font and just read that "Literata initially included two different weights (regular and bold) and corresponding upright italicised variations. Version 2.1 named Literata Book added an additional two different weights (medium and semibold), small caps and made cap-height numerals the default." Meaning that Literata Book and Literata are the same font. What am I missing here?

https://localfonts.eu/freefonts/trad...onts/literata/

Thank you.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by gogu1904

I was searching for updates to Literata Book font and just read that "Literata initially included two different weights (regular and bold) and corresponding upright italicised variations. Version 2.1 named Literata Book added an additional two different weights (medium and semibold), small caps and made cap-height numerals the default." Meaning that Literata Book and Literata are the same font. What am I missing here?

https://localfonts.eu/freefonts/trad...onts/literata/

Thank you.

Literata and Literata Book are not the same font. Look at two photos posted in this thread and you'll see that Literata Book is much better for use on a Reader.

[gogu1904]

Yes, indeed. That was the origin of my post. While searching for new versions of the Literata Book I found out that quotation. Is Literata Book a shortcut for Literata 2.1? No upgrades, no updates, etc? That quotation is either wrong or it does not make any sense.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by gogu1904

Yes, indeed. That was the origin of my post. While searching for new versions of the Literata Book I found out that quotation. Is Literata Book a shortcut for Literata 2.1? No upgrades, no updates, etc? That quotation is either wrong or it does not make any sense.

I read the quote you are talking about and it is confusing.

But as you can see, Literata has much more padding around the characters than Literata Book. Also, Literata book is a bit heavier, resulting in darker characters on e-ink.

[gogu1904]

Hello.

I am playing with Spectral, and renamed Medium and MediumItalic to Regular and Italic. I have been working in three different ways:

(a) via KoboifyFonts and last version of FontForge;
(b) via ReadifyFont and last version of FontForge;
(c) directly with FontForge.

(a) fails with syntax errors (to be expected).

(b) does not work. The fonts are practically destroyed. The letter o and punctuation characters in bold and regular are drawn deffectively (like the internal ring in o becomes elongated and gets outside the external ring).

(c) works well. But this is a manual procedure and I am looking for something more automated for these simple renames.

Do you know what I can do? I am setting up fonttools to see if that works. Will report on it.

Thank you.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by gogu1904

Hello.

I am playing with Spectral, and renamed Medium and MediumItalic to Regular and Italic.

You have to be careful. The medium variants may have medium in the internal font name and thus won't be seen as the same font as the bold and bolditalic versions.


The thing is, if there are OTF fonts, save then as TTF fonts. Then load then into the fonts directory of your Kobo. As long as you have the advanced font control patch installed, just the the Advanced Font control to add weight. That is the best solution. You don't have to fool around to get the font the way you want. The advanced font control is all you need.

The reason ChareInk comes in weighted and unweighted versions is because some people are using Readers that do not have font controls to up the weight.

[gogu1904]

The problem is that I also use KOReader on my Kobo, and there I don't have the same font weight fine tuning.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by gogu1904

The problem is that I also use KOReader on my Kobo, and there I don't have the same font weight fine tuning.

But do you actually need to use KOReader? Is there anything wrong with reading ePub without KOReader?