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Old 04-08-2026, 05:59 AM   #31
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Bookerly is a good font because when I read with it my eyes are happy. That's all.

I tried several fonts but I always return to Bookerly.
Good? Slab serifs are never good.
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Old 04-08-2026, 03:35 PM   #32
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Good? Slab serifs are never good.
Perhaps you should consider that fonts seem to be a very personal choice? One friend of mine likes reading with sans-serif fonts for which I consider him a typographical barbarian. This does not stop me from believing that it's his choice and if he is happy with it, no skin off my nose.
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Perhaps you should consider that fonts seem to be a very personal choice? One friend of mine likes reading with sans-serif fonts for which I consider him a typographical barbarian. This does not stop me from believing that it's his choice and if he is happy with it, no skin off my nose.
Hear, hear!

FWIW, I favour Georgia, and have done for many years. I find that it allows me to ignore the appearance, and enjoy the substance. YMMV, of course.
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How about that, the old adage "you learn something new everyday" appears to be true. I didn't know that I was a typographical barbarian.

I like sans serif fonts. I'm currently using Gil Sans.
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How about that, the old adage "you learn something new everyday" appears to be true. I didn't know that I was a typographical barbarian.

I like sans serif fonts. I'm currently using Gil Sans.
In my eyes, yes. With that opinion and a loonie, you can get a small McCafe coffee.
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Old 04-08-2026, 05:53 PM   #36
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If you have dyslexia, a sans-serif font is the best to read wit as long as the characters are not too close together.
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Rakuten Serif or riot!

I was able to yoink the .ttf file from the web inspector, now I can use it with Koreader and on my Pocketbook. Sorry not sorry.
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Old 04-14-2026, 05:39 PM   #38
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Rakuten Serif or riot!

I was able to yoink the .ttf file from the web inspector, now I can use it with Koreader and on my Pocketbook. Sorry not sorry.
I learned about some great fonts from inspector tool. Cormorant Garamond is used by Vatican webpage for titles, and is now my alternative to other Garamond fonts that are staple of my reading. EB Garamond, is still my go to font, but I've completely abandoned Adobe Garamond, its predominance in scientific and history related books and pdf's, made me dislike it.
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I learned about some great fonts from inspector tool. Cormorant Garamond is used by Vatican webpage for titles, and is now my alternative to other Garamond fonts that are staple of my reading. EB Garamond, is still my go to font, but I've completely abandoned Adobe Garamond, its predominance in scientific and history related books and pdf's, made me dislike it.
Garamond was the house font used by my long-term former employer. I grew to hate the sight of it, and now try to avoid it. I'm sure that I'd be perfectly happy with it if it weren't for the association.
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Old 04-20-2026, 11:16 PM   #40
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I find that the Atkinson Hyperlegible Next font, created by the Braille Institute, is easy to read and great for my astigmatism. My eyes don't get nearly as tired.
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I learned about some great fonts from inspector tool. Cormorant Garamond is used by Vatican webpage for titles, and is now my alternative to other Garamond fonts that are staple of my reading. EB Garamond, is still my go to font, but I've completely abandoned Adobe Garamond, its predominance in scientific and history related books and pdf's, made me dislike it.
I had not encountered this font before! I like it, thanks for pointing it out
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I find that the Atkinson Hyperlegible Next font, created by the Braille Institute, is easy to read and great for my astigmatism. My eyes don't get nearly as tired.
It's a nice font except the metadata for the italic version i sincorrect. That means it doesn't match the other three variations and is treated as a different font. I had to go in with a font editor and fix it.

It's not supposed to be regularitalic. It's supposed to be italic.
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It's a nice font except the metadata for the italic version i sincorrect. That means it doesn't match the other three variations and is treated as a different font. I had to go in with a font editor and fix it.
Good to know. The italics generated in KOReader are readable, but looking closer, I can see how different the a is, for example. Now the million dollar question:how long will it take before it bugs me enough to fix?
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Good to know. The italics generated in KOReader are readable, but looking closer, I can see how different the a is, for example. Now the million dollar question:how long will it take before it bugs me enough to fix?
You should fix it before it starts to bug you.
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Have a look at the NV Collection for ereaders (https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/ebook-fonts/).
The Readerly font in this collection is like a 'more-serif' version of Bookerly, and is very nice.
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