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Originally Posted by Sunspark
I don't have a Kobo so I can't speak to the stock reader, but as someone who looks at fonts a lot, I can tell you that having this switch to turn hinting on and off is quite valuable.
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Thanks a lot for the advice. I’ll be sure to try out the suggested fonts.
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Originally Posted by Colonel Cathcart
why is this still a thing? Isn't hinting required for rendering on low DPI screens, which modern e-readers aren't?
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Probably just legacy settings they’ve never thought to change
It is subtle, so I doubt it has been a real priority to them. Many in this thread have never noticed, for instance. But I would’ve thought an ereader company would want text on their devices to look as good as possible.
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Originally Posted by JSWolf
I've used ChareInk6SP with KOReader and I've not disabled hinting and it works very well.
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I agree, as I said this problem only applies to certain fonts. ChareInk renders well both with/without hinting (even though I’m not partial to the font itself), as do a few other fonts I tried. But many do not, thus the conceit of the thread.