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02-20-2013, 01:37 AM | #647 |
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More experimentation.
Lessons learned: -KPW has a deep, dark, secret. It modifies the built-in fonts with stylesheets and messes with the line gap. -KPW will not display custom kerning on custom fonts in AWZ3 formatted books. -It is a PITA to fiddle repeatedly with individual glyph spacing to improvise what kerning would do more elegantly I have taken the extracted Caecilia fonts, added weight to them, auto-spaced the glyphs, and then modified individual glyph spacing (ie. w, v, m, n, r, i, f, y) to produce improved fonts for my reading preferences. Legend: Caecilia_Size2.png = built-in KPW Caecilia font displayed with secret styling CaeciliaExtracted_Size2.png = unmodified Caecilia font displayed without secret stying CaeciliaModified_Size2.png, CaeciliaModified_Size3.png & CaeciliaModified_Size5.png are all screenshots of my modified fonts. Of particular note, CaeciliaModified at size 3 shows the same amount of words as the built-in Caecilia at size 2. |
02-20-2013, 02:00 AM | #648 | |
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02-20-2013, 12:38 PM | #649 |
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(IMHO) Caecilia is a very poor font choice for Amazon to have made. It feels like I am reading output from a typewriter.
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02-20-2013, 03:48 PM | #650 | |
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I've been using Droid Serif, which I like for its tall and clean shapes, designed for on-screen reading, not to mention its free license. :-) Last edited by twowheels; 02-20-2013 at 03:51 PM. |
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02-20-2013, 03:52 PM | #651 |
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02-20-2013, 03:57 PM | #652 | |
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I didn't pay anything for Amasis. I got it from a old Nook Android App. |
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02-20-2013, 05:24 PM | #653 |
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I've been using Futura on both my Kindles lately.
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02-20-2013, 05:25 PM | #654 |
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02-20-2013, 07:41 PM | #657 |
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I have both and prefer the skinny version from the Nook. Amasis MT is more rounded while the other is more slab serif like Caecilia. |
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02-20-2013, 10:52 PM | #659 |
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Bad news for hide fonts
It is official now: There is positively no way to hide extra fonts from USE_ALT_FONTS on PW unless you jailbreak. The button I intended to write for KUAL did not happen either as I was busy exploring a loophole to hide the fonts without jailbreak. Turned out to be non-functional.
Good news though for everybody that is jailbroke: Jimmy-Jim wrote the button. See his post. |
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