06-23-2018, 10:19 AM | #151 | |
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Still haven't found a font that tops Segoe UI. Make sure to remove the "light" fonts. |
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06-23-2018, 01:59 PM | #152 |
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I finally had a chance this morning to play with fonts for my Voyage. I decided to try out chareink since there were so many positive comments about it. Very nice! Thanks, Jon!
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06-23-2018, 03:09 PM | #153 |
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06-23-2018, 05:48 PM | #154 |
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06-24-2018, 12:01 AM | #155 |
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Damn, Kindle Paperwhite 2 started crashing whenever I open any books with custom fonts with the "Error occurred" message... I removed all the fonts, but it's still not fixed.
Had to reset the Kindle. Last edited by shiningcat; 06-24-2018 at 12:48 AM. |
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06-24-2018, 05:28 PM | #156 |
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All the OS system default fonts are shockingly similar...
I think I prefer San Francisco the most, but unfortunately it doesn't work on Kindle... |
06-24-2018, 11:22 PM | #157 |
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06-24-2018, 11:44 PM | #158 |
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I had a similar problem, getting freezes, errors, etc, only with one custom font, Fira Sans. It happened to be the only one that was .otf, all the .ttf fonts worked. I downloaded a .ttf version of that font, and now it's okay.
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06-25-2018, 01:24 AM | #159 | |
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I have limited to a few fonts that have regular, regular-italic, regular-bold, and regular-bold-italic. Those 4 styles and only those 4 per font family are on my Oasis2 now - no more errors. |
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06-25-2018, 04:08 AM | #160 |
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A quick note about the font Gentium.
I checked the font homepage yesterday, and I noticed an update that might interest some people here: there is a new version of Gentium Plus Mali (24 jun 2018). Gentium Plus Mali is a variant of Gentium Plus with a tighter linespacing. It has many many characters but no bold (note that your Kindle is able to emulate a form of boldness even if the font has no bold variant). Gentium Plus Mali is available here: http://software.sil.org/lcgfonts/download/ If you prefer a native bold and bold-italic variant, you need Gentium Basic 1.102 (10 Dec 2013) available here: https://software.sil.org/gentium/download/ This set has less characters than Gentium Plus Mali, but enough for english readers. Last edited by Pyjam; 06-25-2018 at 04:13 AM. |
06-25-2018, 04:11 AM | #161 |
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Ok the crashing started happening again... I think I solved it by adding all the missing fonts. It might crash when some of the fonts are missing.
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06-25-2018, 04:13 AM | #162 | |
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Also Bitter, Constantia for Kindle, DejaVu Serif E-ink and Lexia DaMa are very nice. As for sans-serif fonts, my favorites are the built-in Helvetica and Lato Medium. |
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06-25-2018, 05:46 PM | #163 |
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06-25-2018, 06:18 PM | #164 |
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Not sure what I am doing wrong?
Have installed 5.9.6.1 and have put Literata font (both otf and ttf) into Fonts folder on kindle but i cannot see it in the menu of my kindle at all in a book. I have a 2017 Oasis. What am i doing wrong? |
06-25-2018, 06:56 PM | #165 |
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What book is it? Direct download from Amazon? Sideloaded? Custom fonts don't work with books in .mobi format, only azw3 and kfx.
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