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Recently I've been using a lot Junicode. It's an open source font based on scans of George Hickes, "Linguarum vett. septentrionalium thesaurus grammatico-criticus et archaeologicus" (Oxford: Sheldonian Theatre, 1703–5). Basically it's a humanist font, in the style of John Fell's Pica Roman.
I made a few modifications in FontForge for e-ink:
I also disabled the Qu ligature (imho too fancy for modern literature). |
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here two versions of Junicode: unweighted (original), and weighted (+25 em units for regular,italic,bold and bold italic)
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Well done! Some do not like pre-weighted fonts as the Reader can add the weight that the user prefers. And for those that want to pre-weighted version, the regular and italic would have looked too similar t the bold versions without the bold version having the added weight.
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(Long) Read fonts
My personal favorites, best for novels & history - Bookerly (Amazon) - Crimson (Pro, Free) - Literata (Google) - Newsreader (Google) - Sitka (Microsoft) - Source Serif (4, Adobe) - STIX (Free) Last edited by erketre; 06-15-2021 at 08:56 AM. |
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Once a year, I like to see if any of my fonts (especially the open source ones) have been updated. Here's what I've stumbled upon thus far; many are glyph expansions thanks to funding from Google:
I've also just discovered APHont, which was developed by the American Printing House for the Blind geared towards readers with low vision. Free for non-commercial use. Last edited by rtiangha; 08-11-2021 at 12:51 PM. |
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Has anyone tried Roboto Serif? It's apparently optimised for readability (link).
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Hello. I remember to have read that I can add all my sideloaded fonts in their own subfolder in the USB:/fonts folder, each set of four files corresponding to one font entry in its own subfolder. Is this still true? I have a KAO SE with the latest firmware installed and I do not see them in the Kobo reader. Or do I confuse this with a different reader? It does work in KOReader, however that is a different animal. Thank you.
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Thank you!
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hello, i'm looking for japanese font
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Some (free) options:
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