11-27-2019, 02:38 PM | #31 | |
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I don't know how to strip fonts and wouldn't bother with anything like that anyway. I mostly read library books and as long as it's readable for the one time I'm going to read it, that's good enough for me. |
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11-27-2019, 02:43 PM | #32 |
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What's interesting is that in Google Docs, I can turn regular Lexend Deca font into bold (ctrl-B) or italics (ctrl-I) or both. So wonder why bold, italics, bold+italics aren't available on my Kobo reader.
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11-27-2019, 02:49 PM | #33 | |
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As for Roboto, I find it to be just an ordinary sans-serif font. Not one I would use as my main font. Last edited by JSWolf; 11-27-2019 at 03:19 PM. |
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11-27-2019, 02:51 PM | #34 |
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11-27-2019, 02:59 PM | #35 |
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A common font used in some eBooks is Adobe Garamond Pro. It's too light for an eInk screen.
Fonts that do not have enough weigh for an eInk screen are not suitable. Also, some fonts even if they have enough weight might not be something I'd like to read with. I use the Calibre editor to delete the fonts and all the font code in the CSS that I do not want. |
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11-27-2019, 03:42 PM | #36 |
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Google Docs fakes the bold and italic (more correctly should be called oblique) variants. Your Kobo ereader does not have that capability and uses the font variants.
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11-27-2019, 04:13 PM | #37 |
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You can't read books printed on microscopic plastic particles. It's just not possible.
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11-27-2019, 04:25 PM | #38 | |
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Roboto was optimized to look good on a small, relatively low resolution displays, but it doesn't mean it has to look bad at better displays. It is still one of the default fonts on high-end Android phones and tablets. Do give it a try. You can download a bunch of fonts from fonts.google.com and try them out on your Kobo. There are so many high quality fonts available nowadays to try. There are even fonts that our fellow mobilereaders modified and uploaded for us to try. I think that installing a new font is as easy as creating "fonts" directory on your Kobo and copying the new fonts there. You probably already created the fonts directory if you installed Lexend font. |
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11-27-2019, 08:04 PM | #39 |
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no matter what new fonts come out and claim to be better, after trying them out, i almost always end up defaulting back to good old Georgia as my font of choice. not all these elements are in Georgia, but i believe that the perfect font would distinguish:
1. the number 0 (zero) from the letter O (oh) 2. the upper case I (eye) from the lower case l (el) everything else is in the eye of the beholder. lots of font sets distinguish upper case I (eye) from lower case l (el). but few distinguishes 0 (zero) from O (oh). and none i've encountered but Consolas does both of these. but unfortunately, Consolas is a monospace font and just uses up too much space. |
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Checking a dozen or so fonts by typing "Il 0O", every single one made the distinction zero and "O" VERY obvious, and most of the san-serif fonts distinguished between "I" and "l" by making the "l" appear fractionally taller. It wasn't as easy to spot as the "O" vs "0", but the difference is clearly visible |
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11-29-2019, 08:03 PM | #42 |
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Cécilia bold all day.
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11-29-2019, 08:54 PM | #44 |
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@JSWolf, I tried ChareInk some time ago. It was enormous on my paperwhite's screen. I may have done something wrong when installing it. Is the font suppose to be that big?
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I had created a larger version of Charis SIL some time ago. But I decided to start over and created ChareInk. Download ChareInk and put it in your Kindle's fonts directory. If there is a version of ChareInk or any other Charis SIL fonts, remove them first. Then rebook the Kindle and try again. ChareInk should not be too large.
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