![]() The main aim with e-book typography is for the reader not to notice what font you are using,” he writes in a comprehensive blog post on digital typography. “It’s a good, readable serif font that doesn’t impose itself on readers. Roger Packer blogs that it is his first choice, quoting the font’s readability as the main reason for its popularity. Georgia was one of the first popular digital typefaces to feature this element, with Carter saying in an interview that he was “puzzled” over their disappearance. Unlike the other serif fonts discussed in this post, Georgia features prominent ball-terminals, an attractive design element popular in the “rational” serifs from the early 19th century. Designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter, a modern legend in typeface design, its purpose was to be the first serif typeface to be comfortably consumed on a digital display. “What’s more, the serif for each letter is different from the others, what helps create a varied flow of the text,” he said, in reference to the image below.īookerly is an excellent choice for all compatible devices. Font serifs are not symmetric, like in Caecilia, the former default Kindle typeface,” he writes. “The designers of Bookerly font have created a useful visual showing the organic structure of the font. Piotr Kowalczyk from praised more than the font’s visual appeal, citing Bookerly’s readability as one of its best features. And in my testing, I thought it was even more pleasant than Palatino, the typeface I previously used on my Kindle.” “Bookerly even includes some lovely ligatures that makes reading on the Kindle feel more like printed typography, like the way the terminal on a lowercase ‘f’ will replace the title on the lower case ‘i’, if they are right next to each other,” he adds. ![]() ![]() “Read Bookerly at much larger font sizes, and some of the fonts delicate touches are allowed to shine: for example, the delicate way the upper arm almost licks the stem of the lower case ‘k’,” he writes in Co.Design. Having been purpose-built for on-screen display, one would think that Bookerly is the easy choice for e-book enthusiasts.ĭesign writer John Brownlee certainly agrees. (Source: ) What People Are Saying About It It introduces a lighter, more graceful look and outperforms other digital reading fonts to help you read faster with less eyestrain.” “Warm and contemporary, Bookerly is inspired by the artistry of the best fonts in modern print books but is hand-crafted for great readability at any size. ![]() Here’s what the company’s marketing people have to say about the font: So invested were Amazon in their creation that the font has replaced Caecilia as the default option in all their future devices. So, herewith then, a breakdown of each font available to most e-book users, along with their respective benefits and drawbacks, as defined by fellow e-book enthusiasts.ĭesigned in 2015 by independent font foundry Dalton Maag exclusively for the Amazon Kindle, Bookerly is the youngest font on our list. The only other option was to take the exact opposite approach: Find out what the people on the internet have to say. Well, so much for the “scientific method” then. “I recently read nearly every important book, and many of the important papers, on the study of legibility from 1905 to the present….nearly all the good ones say that it is very difficult or nearly impossible to find statistically significant differences in intrinsic legibility between common typefaces read at common sizes and normal distances,” he said in an academic text he published in 2012. These suspicions were confirmed when we stumbled across this quote from notable typeface historian and designer Charles Bigelow: Our initial suspicion was that this might prove to be a difficult topic to research since what determines an ideal reading experience for one person may be very different to another’s. This made us wonder whether there is such a thing as an objectively “better” font for reading an e-book in. Collectively the team at Edition Guard have lost count of the number of times we selected a new font for our e-book readers, with the most popular justification for doing so being: “I remembered that I could.” However, with the number of options for customization that we have, often comes the temptation to customize simply for the sake of it. In the age of digital content, customization has become so ubiquitous that most of us have forgotten a time where there was only one way to interact with written information: the way the publisher intended.įrom simple tweaks, like setting your browser’s zoom-level, to more granular ones like your e-book reader’s text alignment and font, creating your “ideal” reading experience is just a view clicks or taps away. ![]() It’s easy for readers to take the number of choices we take for granted. ![]()
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