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# Readerly
When I was doing my usual font tweaking for my ebook-fonts repository, I stumbled upon variable fonts exporting. Doing this for Newsreader gave me some interesting results at small optical sizes: the font was now reminding me of Bookerly.
**Readerly** is modified font based on [Newsreader](https://github.com/productiontype/Newsreader), while attempting to be metrically very similar to [Bookerly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookerly), the default font on Kindle devices, to provide a similar reading experience.
I asked myself the question: how close can we get to the visual appearance of Bookerly while still retaining Newsreader and keeping the font licensed under the OFL?
When I was doing my usual font tweaking for my [ebook-fonts](https://github.com/nicoverbruggen/ebook-fonts) repository, I stumbled upon variable fonts exporting. Doing this for Newsreader gave me some interesting results at small optical sizes: the font was now reminding me of Bookerly.
The goal is to get a metrically/visually similar font, without actually copying glyphs or anything that would infringe upon the rights of the original creators.
I asked myself the question: how close can we get to the metrics of Bookerly while still retaining Newsreader and keeping the font licensed under the OFL, and maybe making some mild manual edits?
To accomplish this, I wanted to start from the 9pt font, which I exported. Then, it was a matter of playing around with scripts and manual edits to see if I could get something that was optically close enough.
The goal was to get a metrically/visually similar font, without actually copying glyphs or anything that would infringe upon the rights of the original creators; after all, Newsreader is a very beautiful font as a starting point.
To get to the final result, I decided to use the variable font and work on it. The original is located in `./src` and is available under the same OFL as the end result.
## Project structure
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- `lineheight.py`: adjusts OS/2 Typo metrics to control line spacing
- `rename.py`: updates font name metadata from Newsreader to Readerly
- `version.py`: sets the font version from `./VERSION`
- `./src_processed`: intermediate files after instancing/processing (generated)
- `./out`: final TTF fonts (generated)
- `./out/sfd`: FontForge source files (generated)
- `./out/ttf`: final TTF fonts (generated)
## Building