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Is this for KePub or ePub? Does one or the other work better with fonts?
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Yep. In those epubs that go to my Nook ( I keep separate libraries in Calibre for all my books, for Kindle/Nook books in epub/azw3 and for Kobo books in epub. The titles mostly overlap between the last two and are included in the first, but as they require different settings - plugboards for Nook and Kindle, font embedding for Nook - it's simpler this way). |
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08-05-2020, 07:26 AM | #20 |
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Whatever font the ereader throws up, as long as it isn't really obnoxious. I really do not notice a font, when I read, unless it throws me out of the story.
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I have Calibre convert everything it can to the Plex Serif output. Everything else, I just leave be. I don't build or edit ebooks, but sans-serif fonts are just harder for my eyes to deal with.
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08-05-2020, 11:02 AM | #24 |
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I usually just use whatever the default font is.
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08-05-2020, 11:26 AM | #25 |
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Almost always Bookerly, sometimes Literata Book. For some reason I don't like Bookerly on my iPhone or iPad mini Kindle app.
I do like the look of that Plex Serif. Is that one that can be added to Kindles? |
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I'm not talking about reading with a sans-serif font as the main font. I'm talking about using IBM Plex Sans when the eBooks's CSS says to use a sans-serif font.
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Yes it can be added to Kindles that support side loaded fonts.
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08-05-2020, 11:55 AM | #28 |
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https://fonts.google.com/specimen/IBM+Plex+Serif I gave it a try, but I still prefer Constantia. |
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They offer Open Type, True Type, web versions and source code. Edit: If you're confused by the IBM Plex Sans KR Styles (like I was) it turns out that they didn't include Korean versions of the font as there are so many characters involved, it is a separate download. If you download from that page, you get Plex Serif, Sans, Hebrew, Arabic, Thai, I forget what else. Last edited by ZodWallop; 08-05-2020 at 03:15 PM. |
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