Thread: Fonts and Font Rendering Tweaks
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2007-11-18 , 15:03
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Originally Posted by Karel Jansens View Post
Personally, I use the Bitstream Vera font family on my tablet. Especially in FBReader the results are stunning, without tweaking.

At first sight, I thought Android had shamelessly copied the Vera family, but the "g" in Vera Serif is different. Still, those Droids look earily familiar...
Typography is a very subtle field where the shape of individual glyphs is only the beginning.

The spacing between different pairs of glyphs, how the shapes change when particular pairs appear together, and other factors can do a lot to affect readability of fonts in ways that aren't apparent by comparing individual glyphs.