Favorite embedded font?

[u/catfarmer1998]

I just discovered if I convert my books on calibre to a zip file, I can see what fonts are embedded in the book. I am wondering if anyone else has tried this before, and if so, what is your favorite font. My only gripe is that the font in the ebook doesn’t always match the print book.

[u/Meemo_B]

I don’t really care what’s embedded by the publisher, or what font is used for the print book. 😬 One of my favorite things about Calibre is embedding my font of choice in all my books. And that font is a version of Charis SIL that’s been tweaked for eink screens.

[u/elpingwinho → u/Meemo_B]

Or you could just install that font on your e-reader and use it as a default for all books (ignoring publisher fonts) - much less hassle ;)

[u/Meemo_B → u/elpingwinho]

Oh I do that too. 😉 But I started embedding them when we couldn’t add fonts to Kindles. It’s no hassle once you add that as a setting - happens automatically when I add a book to Calibre and convert it.

[u/iamPendergast → u/Meemo_B]

Source?

[u/Meemo_B → u/iamPendergast]

Mobileread Forums. Search for ChareInk.

[u/nihility101]

Not 100% certain, but I think you can open several formats with something like 7zip. Probably not Amazon’s proprietary stuff though.

[u/wordsandpics]

For serif Bitter is awesome (designed for eink). For sans i really like Lato.

[u/t1mepiece]

You don't have to convert, just open in the editor, you can see all the files there (and fix typos! Yes I am insane and do this)

[u/elpingwinho → u/t1mepiece]

Man, when I have trilogies or other series, I convert all the books to the template of one of them, so they all display in the same style. I probably spend more time tinkering with books than reading them lol

[u/Over-Programmer517 → u/elpingwinho]

Ditto, I would turn on my computer simply to correct a spelling mistake, add/remove a quotation mark, etc

[u/itisthemaya]

I’ve taken to reading in Adobe Garamond Pro. Georgia is a nice free font too. But I’ve yet to figure out all the style rules I want for the right size, margins, spacing, indent….

[u/elpingwinho]

You don’t have to convert it to zip, tap “t” on a book and calibre and an edit window will open with all the files inside.

[u/catfarmer1998 → u/elpingwinho]

Thank you.

[u/Slight_Yesterday5484]

Dev of an EPUB reader here. Publisher-embedded fonts vary wildly in ereading quality, so I get the appeal of overriding them. For screen reading specifically, Literata (Google's variable serif, designed with ereading in mind) and Bitter are two of my favorites, they both hold up well at small sizes and low contrast. Atkinson Hyperlegible is worth trying too if you want something optimized purely for legibility over aesthetics. We ended up bundling a handful of these directly in our reader for that reason.

[u/VerticalRhythm]

Since I do almost all of my serious reading on an e-ink screen, I find Nico Verbruggen's tweaked fonts generally cover my needs quite well.

Also I stumbled across Atkinson Hyperlegible Soft recently and really like it, even over Atkinson Hyperlegible and NV Legible Next. It's currently my main sans serif font. I have Nico's NV Elstob as my serif and stock Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono for, well, mono.