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Old 08-05-2020, 03:11 PM   #31
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You can just download Plex directly from IBM: here

They offer Open Type, True Type, web versions and source code.
https://github.com/IBM/plex

There is even a mono version.
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Old 08-05-2020, 07:38 PM   #32
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You can just download Plex directly from IBM: here
Ah, a much better (and more complete) source. Thanks.

(But I still like Constantia.)
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Ah, a much better (and more complete) source. Thanks.

(But I still like Constantia.)
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I liked Plex a lot, but switched back to Literata Book. Plex has too much wasted space. At my current settings, with Line Spacing slid all the way to the left, Plex only gave me 19 lines of text. With the same settings, Literata Book gives me 23 lines of text.
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It depends on the story I’m reading. Fantasy books that rely on magic without electricity and modern indoor plumbing get read with a Bookerly. All other books are read with Verdana Condensed Pro because I like fitting the most words on the screen as possible. I dislike serif fonts. I like Bookerly though. I read on size one for both. Before someone on the Kindle subreddit suggested Verdana to me I was using Amazon Ember.


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It depends on the story I’m reading. Fantasy books that rely on magic without electricity and modern indoor plumbing get read with a Bookerly. All other books are read with Verdana Condensed Pro because I like fitting the most words on the screen as possible. I dislike serif fonts. I like Bookerly though. I read on size one for both. Before someone on the Kindle subreddit suggested Verdana to me I was using Amazon Ember.
Before you read eBooks, did you dislike reading pBooks with serif fonts?
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I liked Plex a lot, but switched back to Literata Book. Plex has too much wasted space. At my current settings, with Line Spacing slid all the way to the left, Plex only gave me 19 lines of text. With the same settings, Literata Book gives me 23 lines of text.
I do find that with IBM Plex Serif, I lose maybe 2 lines vs ChareInk. But IBM Plex does look pretty good.
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Before you read eBooks, did you dislike reading pBooks with serif fonts?
There wasn't a whole lot of choice before, was there?
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There wasn't a whole lot of choice before, was there?
But did you specifically want the pBooks to be using a sans serif font?
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But did you specifically want the pBooks to be using a sans serif font?
In the days of paperbooks the font used was the font used.

Why do you care if someone prefers sans serif fonts?
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In the days of paperbooks the font used was the font used.

Why do you care if someone prefers sans serif fonts?
I'm trying to find out how this preference for sans serif came about given that pBooks used serif fonts long before there were eBooks.
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I'm trying to find out how this preference for sans serif came about given that pBooks used serif fonts long before there were eBooks.
Unless you reconfigure things, on your computer pretty much everything is using sans serif; web pages, the ui, apps, whatever. And prior to that magazines all mostly used sans serif. It's what people are accustomed to, and now serif fonts look stodgy and old fashioned.

But I think it's interesting that printed books, fiction, still use serif fonts.

A similar change in taste/convention is that almost all of the books you get from Project Gutenberg (i.e., old and out of print) use Roman numerals for chapter numbers. Which to me looks pretentious.
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I'm actually "constant" with Constantia.
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I liked Plex a lot, but switched back to Literata Book. Plex has too much wasted space. At my current settings, with Line Spacing slid all the way to the left, Plex only gave me 19 lines of text. With the same settings, Literata Book gives me 23 lines of text.
Plex seemed a little too "squared off" for me — if that makes any sense. I also had to use it at a smaller font size than I normally use.
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Unless you reconfigure things, on your computer pretty much everything is using sans serif; web pages, the ui, apps, whatever. And prior to that magazines all mostly used sans serif. It's what people are accustomed to, and now serif fonts look stodgy and old fashioned.

But I think it's interesting that printed books, fiction, still use serif fonts.

A similar change in taste/convention is that almost all of the books you get from Project Gutenberg (i.e., old and out of print) use Roman numerals for chapter numbers. Which to me looks pretentious.
Bingo! Early computer displays/printers were 7/9 pin dot-matrix. The company I worked for had some Daisy Wheel printers for formal letters, but everyday printing was dot matrix (personal printers) or Band printers on the big Iron.
Until dot matrix evolved to high pin counts, doing serif was not pretty
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