Pleasant Fonts

[Cath O'Deray]

From Which Font Should I Use On My Kindle? (2016-07-22):

… The quick answer may sound like a lot of setup for an obvious answer:

You should use whichever font you want to read at whichever size you prefer. …

I learned a lot along the way, including why most e-books don’t have an optimal font, what we lose when a book is translated to digital, why you shouldn’t feel bad for reading in Helvetica …

From Neue to Now: How Helvetica evolved for the 21st century | Monotype.

Adobe Helvetica, regular (Adobe foundry)

Helvetica Now Display, Black (Mono foundry)

Helvetica Now | Monotype.

 

[hruodr]

Of course esthetics plays a role. Compare these old German fonts:

Fraktur - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Schwabacher - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Textura – Wikipedia

de.wikipedia.org

What do you prefer when reading a long text? I prefer the first one, Fraktur, perhaps there is a good
reason that it was the most used one of the three. Schwabacher does not look bad at first, but it makes
me tired. There are TeX fonts for these three:

CTAN: /tex-archive/fonts/gothic

ctan.org

But my problem now is more technical: with my low resolution monitor almost all fonts look horrible.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… What do you prefer when reading a long text? …

 

[hruodr]

Well, the representation in Libreoffice that I see in your text is not completely right, for example the space
between letters. These details play a role on how pleasant is to read. My problem with Schwabacher are
the proportions, they are more quadratic. It is very difficult to find a font that one likes, but in most cases one
gets used, there is no other alternative.

 

[Cath O'Deray]

… the space between letters. …

In which application might the spacing appear better?

I guess it's /usr/local/share/fonts/google-fonts/UnifrakturMaguntia-Book.ttf from x11-fonts/google-fonts.

 

[hruodr]

In which application might the spacing appear better?

As I remember, the TeX fonts were very good in the details. It is not only spacing, also ligatures an such things.

By the way, the handwriting (Kurrentschrift) is very interesting. Since it does not have these round forms,
but almost only up and down angular forms, it is better for writing faster:

Kurrent - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Cath O'Deray]

(I have no practical use for this … just curious.)

 

[hruodr]

(I have no practical use for this … just curious.)

I mean the fonts I linked. After installing and running tex on the text. I have no idea what TexWorks do.