01-30-2024, 03:12 PM | #16 |
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I use Gil Sans on my Kobos.
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01-30-2024, 03:16 PM | #17 |
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Comic Sans
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01-30-2024, 03:17 PM | #18 |
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So long as it's not Comic Sans or something silly, I just use whatever the default for the app/reader is. I couldn't even tell you the name of that font on my main reading app right now. I'm fairly font agnostic.
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01-30-2024, 03:21 PM | #19 |
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I think I mostly use Georgia, but I don't really care.
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01-30-2024, 03:51 PM | #20 |
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I mostly use Georgia on eink, but something a little posher on paper (really PDFs for POD).
People mock Comic Sans, but A Comic Sans Heading Some Georgia body text However I wouldn't use Comic Sans because it's got such a bad rep from people misusing it. A long time ago I thought Lucida Console was nice; maybe that was in Windows NT 4.0, but I'd never use it now. I use some sort of Courier style font if simulating telgrams, consoles etc. |
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01-31-2024, 03:39 AM | #21 |
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I like the Liberation family of fonts. I think it is an updated Times New Roman.
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01-31-2024, 04:56 AM | #22 |
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I use Bookerly with religious fervor and unmitigated joy!
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01-31-2024, 05:35 AM | #23 |
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01-31-2024, 06:04 AM | #24 |
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01-31-2024, 11:26 AM | #25 | |
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While their serif fonts always had these heavy serifs that were rarely present in other fonts. That's something that was always puzzling me. E-ink is spectacular with thin serifs, even on very low resolution screens they look way better than on other display technology, yet all they give you is regular thick serifs and fonts that were originally designed for low resolution crt displays. |
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01-31-2024, 11:36 AM | #26 | |
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As you noted, Courier is right for the "old fashioned" feel of telegrams, but if I want to display computer output in an eBook, I use a sans-serif like Myriad, so that it looks similar to what people see on actual computer screens today. Even in a book set in the 1960s, it seems to feel OK without using a fixed-pitch font. |
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01-31-2024, 12:00 PM | #27 | |
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01-31-2024, 01:13 PM | #28 |
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01-31-2024, 02:27 PM | #29 |
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I prefer Bookerly but if I read a Kepub on Kobo I use LexiaDama because Kepub doesn't handle ligatures.
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01-31-2024, 03:34 PM | #30 | |
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In the file Kobo eReader.conf (found inside .kobo) under [Reading} add in webkitTextRendering=geometricPrecision and you will get ligatures. |
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