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View Poll Results: Best preinstalled fonts on KOBO
Publishers Default 10 7.52%
Amasis 24 18.05%
Avenir Next 9 6.77%
Caecilia 14 10.53%
Georgia 38 28.57%
Gill Sans 5 3.76%
Kobo Nickel 9 6.77%
Malabar 16 12.03%
Kobo UD Kakugo 6 4.51%
Open Dyslexic 2 1.50%
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Old 03-10-2019, 02:01 PM   #76
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I really like Literata Book, but for some reason the Bold isn't even listed as an option. (No problem with Book, Medium, and SemiBold as choices.)
I'm not sure what you mean by this, but perhaps you'd find the following post useful: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=414

The attachment is a TTF version of Literata Book that uses the regular, bold, italic and bold italic OTF files from the Font Squirrel website as a source.
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Old 03-15-2019, 01:04 PM   #77
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You don't have my favorite ... DejaVu Serif E-Book. My favorite because it's nice and dark and sharp. (You don't have to add weight to it to make it darker, like you do with most of the other fonts — at least for my eyes.)
Is there a link to this font I found some via google but I wanna make sure I’m getting the right one
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Old 03-17-2019, 05:12 PM   #78
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I prefer ChareInk as my go to font.
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Old 03-18-2019, 12:36 AM   #79
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I prefer ChareInk as my go to font.
That font sounds somewhat familiar. Just can't wrap my mind around who created that modification of Charis SIL at the moment.
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Old 03-18-2019, 01:09 AM   #80
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I prefer ChareInk as my go to font.
Mine too!
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Old 03-18-2019, 05:35 PM   #81
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I prefer ChareInk as my go to font.
And where can one find this wondrous font?
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Old 03-18-2019, 06:02 PM   #82
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And where can one find this wondrous font?
no weight or with weight the choice is yours.

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

i was pleasantly pleased with the weighted bold font.

thank you Mr Wolf.

best wishes koboy
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Old 03-18-2019, 11:49 PM   #83
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On a more serious note, I keep playing with fonts but Jon's CharEink is still my goto font when I don't need characters (mostly Greek) that it does not support.
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Old 03-19-2019, 05:20 PM   #84
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I just picked up ChareInk and I'm thoroughly enjoying this font.

Thank you, Jon.
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Old 03-20-2019, 01:21 AM   #85
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I just tried ChareInk for the first time, and it is immediately apparent to me on my Aura ONE that the fi an ff ligatures show up below the other letters.

Fortunately I don't like the font style itself, so I don't have to worry about correcting that
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Old 03-22-2019, 01:45 AM   #86
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It's the one named 'Freedom to advanced fonts control' (in the libnickel.so.1.0.0.yaml patch file).
EDIT: Which thing in the patches save memory on the ClaraHD reader?
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Old 03-22-2019, 09:43 AM   #87
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What do you mean by saving memory with the patch?
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Old 03-23-2019, 05:23 PM   #88
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I think the best one is Bookerly from amazon or Amber also from amazon because its so easy to read and i just love the more bolder fonts.
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I'm not sure what you mean by this, but perhaps you'd find the following post useful: https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...&postcount=414

The attachment is a TTF version of Literata Book that uses the regular, bold, italic and bold italic OTF files from the Font Squirrel website as a source.

I have all of these, but for some reason the Bold is not an option when choosing the font of my choice. My only choices are

Literata Book
Literata Book Medium
Literata Book SemiBold

I would like to have the Literata Book Bold as a choice, but it just isn't listed in the Fonts Menu (although that Bold is on my Reader).
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I have all of these, but for some reason the Bold is not an option when choosing the font of my choice. My only choices are

Literata Book
Literata Book Medium
Literata Book SemiBold

I would like to have the Literata Book Bold as a choice, but it just isn't listed in the Fonts Menu (although that Bold is on my Reader).
Because of my crappy eyesight, I also prefer bolder fonts. What I do just make a copy of the bold (or semi bold if you prefer) font, and rename that copy as the regular font. The reader picks up the regular font as it should, but you see the bold version. I do the same with the bold italic version as well. It's an easy way to trick the reader into displaying what you want.
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