08-03-2009, 08:56 PM | #121 |
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Gentium book basic
I use this font often. Last edited by gregcd; 08-03-2009 at 09:01 PM. |
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Lol yes that is The Guardian (UK) for you.
Would be nice if ADE defaulted to hyperlinks in black instead of grey. |
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This font looks nice and wide, I like this ; it reminds me of Caecilia, although it is simpler (simplier?)
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08-05-2009, 08:10 PM | #126 |
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I'm pleased to announce i got grandesign neue serif working last night.
It seems the sony cant handle either long font filenames, or filenames with spaces in them. All that is required is renaming the font to a short simple name. Grandesign neue serif is a slab serif font, similar in some ways to the commercial font caecilia. see screenshot |
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It look really great, that's (IMHO) the best looking font since Caecilia.
Great find, gregcd ! |
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Actually, a kinda-wide left margin is useful when reading at night with the Sony cover-with-light ; the plastic block they use for lighting the screen generates a shadow that is more or less 15 pixels wide, at the left of the screen...
And a right margin is useful because of ADE's page numbers... Anyway, this is a matter of personal preferences, but I format my ebooks almost like this. |
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I am currently using the following:
Caecilia Bold = Standard Caecilia Heavy = Bold Caecilia Bold Italic = Italic Caecilia Heavy Italic = Bold Italic This makes a very readable font for the small zoom on standard calibre conversion and also makes for excellent reading in lower light conditions with the sony reader light. Code:
@font-face { font-family: "Caecilia"; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/fonts/CaeciliaLTStd-Bold.otf); } @font-face { font-family: "Caecilia"; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; src: url(res:///Data/fonts/CaeciliaLTStd-Heavy.otf); } @font-face { font-family: "Caecilia"; font-weight: normal; font-style: italic; src: url(res:///Data/fonts/CaeciliaLTStd-BoldItalic.otf); } @font-face { font-family: "Caecilia"; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; src: url(res:///Data/fonts/CaeciliaLTStd-HeavyItalic.otf); } p { margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt; text-indent:20pt } body { font-family: "Caecilia", serif; } |
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Looks good. But I do think the indent is a bit large. With ePub, I use an indent of 1.1em.
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Ive loaded caecilia on to my sony at last; it looks great.
I was surprised to find it was released way back in 1992. Some things age well. This is the standard version. |
08-14-2009, 10:08 AM | #135 |
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Hmmm... In previous surveys here at Mobileread, most respondents indicated that they are generally satisfied with the second generation e-ink screens and almost nobody felt they needed higher resolution.
However, the majority of font sample screenshots from this thread show that people like robust letterforms with uniform stroke width and slab serifs (and possibly large font sizes, its unclear if people are showing their normal reading size or are showing larger sizes for easier comparison on-line). I bet this means that the pixel density and the contrast of the screen aren't yet high enough to be very satisfactory at all or else we could choose more delicate fonts. |
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