Font pack

[selmerry]

Hi. I'm looking for a font pack for an eink reader (ttf/otf). The one from Google fonts is huge. Was wondering if there's a pack lying around on this forum. Thanks

[HarryT]

Not that I'm aware of, I'm afraid.

[BookCat]

I saw one over in the Kobo forum a couple of months ago, you might try asking there. (I mean the Kobo forum on mobileread.)

[svenlind]

I use the font from jswolf. You kan find it here

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056

I also use the font in my iPad reader apps because they are quite heavy. This is not so important (for me) in my Kindles, because here you can adjust the boldness.

[fjtorres]

The Digital reader blog has a couple of articles with attached font packs:

https://the-digital-reader.com/2016/...e-ink-screens/

https://the-digital-reader.com/2016/...kobo-ereaders/

https://the-digital-reader.com/2019/...ur-next-ebook/

[kacir]

Originally Posted by selmerry

Hi. I'm looking for a font pack for an eink reader (ttf/otf). The one from Google fonts is huge.

When I feel like trying a new font I go to the google fonts site and look at the fonts there. You can sort and filter them by families, popularity, downloads, number of styles (you want at least 4, so you have bold and italics for your font).

I find desired fonts there and then download those few that I want to try out on my reader.

Click on plus sign to add font to your download collection and when you finish then just click on "Family selected" on the bottom of the screen and click on the download icon. It will try to persuade you not to download, but you do not want to use them on a web page but on the reader, do download them anyway. Done.

What huge font pack are you talking about?

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by kacir

What huge font pack are you talking about?

He might be referring to the NOTO family.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts

It covers the entire unicode character set so the individual fonts are pretty big.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

He might be referring to the NOTO family.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts

It covers the entire unicode character set so the individual fonts are pretty big.

Yeah, but you can download the much smaller Noto serif font pack (19.5MB): https://www.google.com/get/noto/#serif-lgc

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by fjtorres

He might be referring to the NOTO family.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noto_fonts

It covers the entire unicode character set so the individual fonts are pretty big.

Not that large other than the CJK fonts. Even there comparing them to some of the MS fonts, they aren't overly large. Some of the smaller fonts with less than 100 glyphs are downright tiny. For the Latin/Greek/Cyrillic variant, I would have preferred that they were not derived from Droid--it's not on my favourite fonts list.

When I did some testing with an eInk screen, I found myself using the ExtraBold, ExtraBoldItalic, MediumItalic and Medium variants for both the serif and sans serif variants.

[HarryT]

Interesting. In all the years I've been using ebooks, I've never been concerned about the font that the book is displayed in. I tend to select whichever one of the device's fonts appeals (eg I use Bookerly on the Kindle) and stick with it.

[fjtorres]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Interesting. In all the years I've been using ebooks, I've never been concerned about the font that the book is displayed in. I tend to select whichever one of the device's fonts appeals (eg I use Bookerly on the Kindle) and stick with it.

It is mostly aesthetics and personal preference (some people prefer serif fonts, others sans serif) but not totally. Font design affects readability and contrast a bit. Some fonts look darker than others and some look fuzzier. It's not all about the display.

Also, some fonts look better on eink than on LCD.
A classic case is Georgia which looks nice and dark on eink, especially the non-backlit models, but not that great on tablets.

And then there's the specialty fonts like OpenDyslexic or the black fonts that help people with vision problems or reading issues. Font choice is a selling point for both ebooks and ereaders. It's enough of an issue that Amazon had to add the option of installing you own font after all these years. Probably the last major player to offer this feature which many ereaders and apps had a decade ago.

https://the-digital-reader.com/2018/...our-own-fonts/

Originally Posted by fjtorres

It is mostly aesthetics and personal preference (some people prefer serif fonts, others sans serif) but not totally. Font design affects readability

Indeed. I bought a copy of Jungle Book in Hindi from the Kobo store, but it wouldn't display at all on my Kobo until I sideloaded a new font. I still need to find one that lets it show all the characters properly too, reading it is a chore at present, with misplaced and missing vowels among several other display errors

[Ghitulescu]

I always prefer the large fonts, for larger fonts comprise more glyphs (characters).
Subsetting would reduce the size of the font to the minimum.

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by stuartjmz

Indeed. I bought a copy of Jungle Book in Hindi from the Kobo store, but it wouldn't display at all on my Kobo until I sideloaded a new font. I still need to find one that lets it show all the characters properly too, reading it is a chore at present, with misplaced and missing vowels among several other display errors

Have you checked Noto? Covering missing glyphs is its aim, after all: https://www.google.com/get/noto/

[ZodWallop]

Originally Posted by HarryT

Interesting. In all the years I've been using ebooks, I've never been concerned about the font that the book is displayed in. I tend to select whichever one of the device's fonts appeals (eg I use Bookerly on the Kindle) and stick with it.

I mostly wasn't too concerned about fonts myself. I tend to move between Georgia and Noto Serif. But lately I've noticed that when I'm tired or reading in a dimly lit room, Bookerly is clearer and easier for me to read.