Free at - https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/libron
I’m really liking it because it’s just a smidge bolder/thicker than my other fonts, so works great on this smaller reader.
Nico Verbruggen does good work. I have a huge collection of his typefaces on my Kobo (but if we’re being completely honest, I mostly just use his variation of EB Garamond 😆 ).
Good to know. I removed a comment saying it was an AI font, and I saw nothing to shows that it is. And it’s a great font on this little reader.
Can you read arbitrary pdfs on that?
I’ve never tried, but in my experience .pdfs have never worked well on any of my ereaders.
drove it with the windows down
Is a phrase that is bothering me more than it probably should. Especially since the previous thing it might refer back to is the asphalt. Weird wording.
I don’t know, man, I see it as person is driving the route k, as in driving down that road. Never occurred to me to read it any different way.
And it’s a little throwaway pulp story. If that sort of wording bothers you, then definitely stay away from most pulp stories written back in the day. Because some of the turns of phrase are maddening in lots of them. I have no problems with it though. I sorta like b-movie level writing.
But the asphalt is a reference to Route K, so it makes sense.
Hrm, I guess in that sense of ‘drive’, which I hadn’t considered. I think of driving something as the vehicle (or animals in the sense of a cattle drive or something).
Where I am people say 'drive" as in the road all the time. as in asking “hey what’s taking you so long to get here?” and the reply “I’m driving I36 and traffic sucks right now”
I would always say driving on/down [the] <road> which is probably why it tripped me up. I wonder if it’s regional.
Yeah, maybe regional or time. Story is from the 1970s.
Removed by mod
I don’t care how something is made, I care if it works. This works. Not saying that I know 100 percent for sure, but I’m not gonna waste my time running around purity-testing every single thing that’s new.
What proof do you have that it was made by AI? The font author documents a pretty normal font-development workflow:
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Libron started as a modification of Readerly. (GitHub)
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Readerly itself was derived from the open-source Newsreader typeface. (GitHub)
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For Libron, Nico Verbruggen says the original font was “manually edited using FontForge.” (GitHub)
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He says many letters, numbers, punctuation marks, spacing, kerning, and accented characters were redrawn or refined manually across the four styles. (GitHub)
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The build process uses regular font-development tools such as FontForge, fontTools, Python scripts, and ttfautohint.
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The original font was imported and has been manually edited using FontForge. All modified source files are available in the src directory.
Is it made with AI?
I didn’t see any proof that it was made with AI. Not saying that I know 100 percent for sure, but I’m not gonna waste my time running around purity-testing every single thing that’s new. The font author documents a pretty normal font-development workflow:
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Libron started as a modification of Readerly. (GitHub)
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Readerly itself was derived from the open-source Newsreader typeface. (GitHub)
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For Libron, Nico Verbruggen says the original font was “manually edited using FontForge.” (GitHub)
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He says many letters, numbers, punctuation marks, spacing, kerning, and accented characters were redrawn or refined manually across the four styles. (GitHub)
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The build process uses regular font-development tools such as FontForge, fontTools, Python scripts, and ttfautohint.
I care way more about if something works or not. And this font works great on my ereader, so I don’t care how it was made. But I don’t see anything that suggests it was made by AI.
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