11-04-2007, 10:23 AM | #1 |
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Some freely available high quality fonts to use with the Cybook
For those of you who want more of a choice which font to use. I haven't tested these fonts with the Cybook as I don't have one yet, but I know that they are of high quality and the Cybook's DPI should be high enough to render them nicely:
URW fonts (especially Garamond No8 and URW Palladio [Palatino clone]) Bitstream Vera family (also suited for low resolutions) Last edited by IceHand; 11-10-2007 at 03:33 PM. |
11-04-2007, 08:47 PM | #2 |
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This is an important issue. I as a book creator need to have an idea what files are typical on a Bookeen. Perhaps mobileread can put together a package zip of free fonts containing a good variety of fonts for general use. It's doubtful that people are going to want to download individual fonts depending on the book.
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I'd recommend the liberation fonts http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts
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I did need to delete the font cache (system/font-cache-1 or something close to that) for the new fonts to show up, though. But again, YMMV; installing another font worked fine without doing that. |
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11-10-2007, 03:24 PM | #6 |
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Nice find, jbenny! Gentium, Cardo and Day Roman look very usable to me, I still prefer Garamond No8 though.
Here's another nice one (without an italic version though): Vollkorn Does the Cybook support OpenType? And: Linux Libertine As soon as I have a Cybook (next month) I'll do some testing with various fonts. Last edited by IceHand; 11-10-2007 at 03:27 PM. |
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11-10-2007, 07:58 PM | #9 |
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The DejaVu fonts are based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts, but covers a larger number of languages. Its Unicode coverage is still far from complete though, Wikipedia: Unicode typefaces says that DejaVu has about 5,000 characters compared to about 39,000 in Arial Unicode MS.
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A very good alternative to Times: Lido STF (free for personal use, registration required)
Unfortunately, the line spacing on the Cybook is a bit too narrow for my taste with this font. Maybe this will be adjustable in the future. EDIT: It is, kind of: How to change the line spacing of a font Last edited by IceHand; 07-29-2008 at 06:31 AM. |
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