If you know what you're doing, drop some money on a good commercial typeface".
A good, business-quality typeface - such as 12-point Times New Roman - creates clean, easy-to-read text.
Text handling seems unchanged from Kobo's other devices, which means it's just fine — the typefaces are good and there are lots of options to adjust it to your taste, book by book.
I sent her a message through Twitter saying that identifying the typeface seemed like good etiquette.
Typeface expert Brian Hoff, creative designer at Brian Hoff Design, agrees.
A good graphic designer should understand the importance of typeface, leading, kerning, and everything else that goes with creating effective text.
It was sharply drawn, graceful and of good contrast, and it soon displaced most other typefaces then in use.
Biological traces, fibers, paper, ink, dust, typefaces, even odors can yield signatures almost as good as fingerprints and sometimes better.
A year ago I made a shamelessly subjective selection of "quietly good design," which included a Coca-Cola can, the new British coins, the typeface Georgia and a series of paperback books by the French publishing house, Zuma.
Ms. Hively says she fell for signs that seemed to invent their own typefaces: Lenox Lounge in Harlem had letters as curvy as good jazz; the Midtown dive Subway Inn favored italicized characters as tippy as the patrons leaving the bar.
