grokking koreader – i have sung the praises about the Kobo Libra 2 since purchasing it almost two years ago, shortly after its release—replacing my Kindle Oasis as my daily driver for consuming digital content. Both ereaders ... shadows and light
drift font duo – tired eyes are an effective test of typeface readability. Even a favourite font gets more closely scrutinized under less than ideal reading conditions in the wee hours of the night. And so it was ... shadows and light
mirrored asymmetric font – the visual geometric minimalism and “flow” of the asymmetric lower case t propelled the grote font to the default ereading font with KOReader. Its geometric form invited experimentation with its orientation—counter to the convention ... shadows and light
asymmetric font trio – “flat” fonts and the asymmetric lower case t have become my main focus of late—the increased air between lines taking precedence over earlier typefaces using extended/descending glyphs. A different feel that i have settled on ... shadows and light
2023-10-16 – still more font changes. Though, it feels like the journey has finally reached an end, near full circle to a geometric sans serif font. While the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font played a large role in ... the darnedest thing
word spacing – this topic will be short—a strong indicator that the dyslexic font variants presented on this site is coming to an end :) When the dyslexic font exploration began, a word spacing of Space 2x was used ... shadows and light
grote font – The asymmetrical lower case t of the groot and related fonts is, quite possibly, the final glyph substitution (available from the Iosevka project) to aid dyslexic readability. groot IMO is both a beautiful and highly ... shadows and light
mu font – descending caps, since becoming enamoured with the descending serifless I variant of the typograffic font (with Iota), had become the focus of the latest font development. The expressiveness rendered to the typefaces by these unique descenders combined with dyslexic readability ... shadows and light
font trio revisited – Iota rapidly established itself as the default font on my ereader. It is a very unique yet highly readable font and sported the single-storey lower case a which i am drawn to for the added openness it renders ... shadows and light
iota – typograffic has been my favourite font of late.. the culmination of two years of font experimentation—beginning innocently with a monospaced facsimile of the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font (for coding) and expanding into (too) numerous variants as an ereader font ... shadows and light
quasimono – the Iosevka font is the source from which all monospaced fonts on this site have been created from. It is one of the most actively maintained fonts available today, whose source code origins have been further expanded ... shadows and light
monolexic timeline – for anyone who has stumbled upon this site’s discourse on fonts and readability, this page attempts to graphically summarize the evolution of these monolexic fonts. See also quasimono for the quasi-proportional variants. monospaced atkinson hyperlegible this ... shadows and light
dyslexic variations – among other things, this is an attempt to normalize the various MonoLexic fonts created on this site, removing redundant alias font naming and, instead, assigning custom Space cell widths to those font names—i still harbour a fondness for ... shadows and light
grotesk – completes the evolution of the monospaced dyslexic fonts and their unique set of asymmetric glyphs and double cell width characters—adding a tweaked cap height to the Unolexic font. By increasing the cap (capital) height—a very small ... shadows and light
typo' asymmetry – for the interested, this entry encapsulates the machinations and rationalizations that accompanied the development of the dyslexic fonts for ereaders (and my reading enjoyment in particular) as described on this site. design Typefaces such as OpenDyslexic address ... shadows and light
unolexic – is an homage to the Universal Grotesk font—possibly the first geometric sans font. With Uno constucted from its name to echo its firm relationship to Monolexic. :) Monolexic, having long morphed from its original Atkinson Hyperlegible ... shadows and light
monolexic type – along the way, the consolidated write-up on the Monolexic font accumulated more revisions than i had anticipated as the original Hyperlegible Font was iteratively tweaked to address dyslexia. Having “arrived” at this final release of Monolexic (famous ... shadows and light
2022-02-22 – it was inevitable.. from the development of.. my original monospaced coding font based on the Atkinson Hyperlegible Font for the visually impaired to the ereader variant of that font further enhanced for dyslexia ... the darnedest thing
hyperlegible dyslexic – this page consolidates the various font customizations applied to the Iosevka font used on this site, my Kindle and computers. Essentially, the configuration customizations elucidated in the various articles are relisted here in this single source for ease of reference ... shadows and light
monolexic – a recent thread on reddit piqued my interest and made me ponder how the Monolegible font might be improved for the ereader. The Kindle already comes bundled with the OpenDyslexlic font which, like many so-called dyslexic fonts, ... shadows and light
monolegible – i have been living with my mock up of a monospaced Atkinson Hyperlegible font now for some weeks. First, by simply substituting the Iosevka character variants that most closely matched their Hyperlegible counterparts, then a much lengthier concerted effort ... shadows and light
quasilegible – a quasi-proportional spaced Iosevka typeface. This option has been available for the last several major versions of the font but i did not get the impression that all character variants were available—possibly due to an incomplete or incorrect ... shadows and light
the look – for this site was originally inspired by a wiki based web app called Nanoki written in Lua, a scripting language I had been investigating at the time. The clean monochromatic layout of its original example ... colophon
2021-07-25 – with the focus on font type legibility satisfied (on my desktops, ereaders and web site), it was time to address the resultant aesthetic of this site. So, with some further CSS tweaking and server side magic.. ... the darnedest thing
2021-07-08 – my descent into all things fonts continues.. Unica One, a condensed unicase sans serif typeface which this site has used for awhile for subtitle headings, while adding a unique contrast to the Major Mono Display titles, lacked high ... the darnedest thing
iosevka hyperlegible – iosevka is hands down my favourite monospaced font for programming, writing, desktop.. everything in my day to day computer workflow. It can be installed in many pre-built typeface flavours. But what i love most about Iosevka is ... shadows and light
2021-03-19 – the last entry was about fonts. Fonts for this site’s look. Covid continues to be a time in which reading books (when not immersed in the web) fills the day. More so i have found ... the darnedest thing
an oasis – in the time of Covid-19, there has been a lot of time for contemplation and reading. Towards that, ereaders have been indispensable with the closure of public libraries, allowing access to a wealth of digital material from the ... shadows and light