Opened 12 years ago

Closed 9 years ago

#3523 closed enhancement (notabug)

Read use a prettier font for Epub

Reported by: HoboPrimate Owned by: godiard
Priority: Unspecified by Maintainer Milestone: Unspecified
Component: Read Version: 0.95.x
Severity: Unspecified Keywords:
Cc: Distribution/OS: Fedora
Bug Status: Unconfirmed

Description

I download the same book with Get Books, in pdf and epub format.
Seem like Epub uses the DejaVu LGC Serif font. Perhaps among the free fonts shipped with the XO are prettier fonts to be used in epub viewer.

See the comparision shots of the fonts.

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Read epub file.png (62.1 KB) - added by HoboPrimate 12 years ago.
font used for Epub
Read pdf file.png (88.0 KB) - added by HoboPrimate 12 years ago.
font of the Pdf

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Change History (6)

Changed 12 years ago by HoboPrimate

font used for Epub

Changed 12 years ago by HoboPrimate

font of the Pdf

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by HoboPrimate

Some discussion happened in sugar-devel.

comment:2 Changed 12 years ago by HoboPrimate

And in this thread as well.

comment:3 Changed 10 years ago by HoboPrimate

Forgot to link to the proposal page http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Design_Team/Proposals/Fonts_For_Reading, which has some screenshots of Read with a few fonts (more could be added perhaps). The one I would choose is Century Schoolbook L, it was specifically developed for young children text books, readable and esthetically pleasing.

comment:4 Changed 9 years ago by godiard

  • Resolution set to notabug
  • Status changed from new to closed

Pretier fonts are subjective sadly. Closing as notabug

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