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Fonts for use in KOReader
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Charis SIL might be worth giving a try #3

Open ghost opened 5 years ago

ghost commented 5 years ago

Hello,

As my title implies, the open font Charis SIL, based on Bitstream Charter, might be worth giving a try as one of the default KOReader fonts.

Best regards.

tigran123 commented 5 years ago

There are so many nice fonts and just as many different tastes, that I doubt anyone would use the default font that comes in any software. I, for example, always change the default (in both Koreader and CoolReader) to something like Baskerville 10 Pro for most of my reading. But sometimes (especially for Russian books) I like to switch to the old good Academy or even the beautiful (especially for books with lots of text in italics) Adobe Garamond Premier Pro family.

I am NOT objecting to your suggestion. Btw, I tried Charis SIL and it looked "okay", but Baskerville 10 Pro is, imho, still better for English texts (but it is commercial, unfortunately).

Frenzie commented 5 years ago

There's this pseudo-Baskerville, btw. http://www.tug.dk/FontCatalogue/librebaskerville/

I prefer Tex Gyre Pagella, a Palatino lookalike: https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/tex-gyre-pagella

NiLuJe commented 5 years ago

Yeah, the "default" font choice is made more in terms of unicode coverage than how nice it looks ;).

Hence Noto ;).

(Plus, I don't think we want to add yet another font to the mix, as fonts already take up far too much space in our packages ;)).

pazos commented 4 years ago

Speaking of unicode. I did notice that @baskerville updated a unicode test epub in plato. See https://github.com/baskerville/plato/blob/master/contrib/unicode_test.epub.

I just played a bit with that file and how noto fonts worked with it. Not impressed. Searching in wikipedia for unicode coverage I found Code2000, which covers most of the glyphs. On the wiki page it says there's no official download site but can be downloaded from https://fonts2u.com/code2000.font.

Are you aware of this font?. I think it is awesome and weights less than 3MB.

NiLuJe commented 4 years ago

Yep, license makes it unredistributable/unusable IIRC.

(It's also not particularly pretty IMHO (and, worse in my book, has weird metrics), but it does have massive coverage).

NiLuJe commented 4 years ago

Otherwise, there's GNU Unifont, which is really not pretty in its TTF variant since it's a bitmap font at heart, but does aim for full coverage ;).