swiz - HiRes Clié Fonts

This is finally a real set of HiResFonts specially tuned for the use with a Clié. It requires FontHack 123 v4.0c. A detailed manual on how to install the fonts is included.

Lubak's "Handera" fonts served me as a basis for these fonts: more fonts by Lubak are here: http://www.domino.sk/lubak
I changed many symbols, and some of the letters, and improved the overall look.

swiz is only compatible with High Resolution (320x320p) Sony Cliés. If other companies release a handheld with HiRes it may or may not be compatible.

swiz features the following fonts:
-normal font (22p, narrow, very good readability)
-bold font (22p, also narrow)
-large font (28p, specially designed for Clie's)
-small font (16p, very good readability, very much on one page, especially useful in NoteFields, MemoPad, pedit...)

      
Before and After: swiz HiRes Fonts are on the left. On the right, you see Sony's standard HiRes fonts. Please notice that the first three Fonts have the same hight as before and therefore fit perfectly for almost every application on Palm OS. Only the LargeBold Font is now a Small Font instead. I chose this one to be the smaller one, since it is not used very often.

-small (lowRes) font (14p, this looks almost the same as the first smallfont, but is really a lowRes font; it is specially designed for apps like DateBk5 (in ListView), iSilo, Planetarium, MiniCalc, McFile, and many more which can display those very small fonts; this one is much more readable)

     
iSilo lets you choose the small 14point font, with norrow spaces. It's optimized for use with long text. The picture on the right shows Sony's Small font.

Manual:

0. Preparation
0.a Check if you have a HiRes Clié . (If you don't you can stop reading this document, now.)
0.b Check if you have a Hackmanager (e.g. Hackmaser, Tealmaster, X-Master ) installed. X-Master is for free.
0.c Check if you have FontHack123 version 4.0c installed. If you don't, get the newest version from palmgear.com for free.

1. Installation
Install the swiz##.pdb (where ## is the version number) file from this swiz.zip file on your Clié, by unzipping it, and then double-clicking it on your PC. When you sync for the next time, it will be installed on your Clié.

2. Set up FontHack as following (also look at the graphics below):

3. Activate FontHack in your Hackmanager.

Explanation/Tips:

The first four fonts are only so called substitution fonts. They are required, so that the HiRes fonts work as they should. The third font is for apps, that can display smallFonts.

Your HiResFonts will be as following: Std/Bold/Large fonts will be as the name says.
LargeBold will really be a very nice smallFont, smaller than all the others. Use this font in MemoPad, in pedit, in the notefield of Datebook, DateBk5, in Bonsai; basically in every larger editField on your Clié.

Please try to install the fonts this way. If you want to replace only one of your fonts by my fonts, you should never forget to also install the adequate lowRes font.

Please notice that in applications which don't support HiRes, my fonts are not very readable. This is because those Substitution Fonts need to have the same width as the HiRes Fonts. If it is an important application for you, you might want to consider to deinstall my fonts in only this app. This works great with FontHack.

So far, the largeFont is designed only for English and German language. If you want it for your language (i.e. all special signs) please contact me. If I get an email, I will speed up, if I don't get any, I might never add these special signs.

You might want to install NoLinesHack or ClearHack to remove the "rulers" for even better readability. I think NoLinesHack does the better job, since it removes all lines consequently i every text field. If you descide to try one of those hack, try it atlleast for one day, since to a senior palmer those lines are so familiar that he can't be without them. But, if you try it long enough, you will understand why I don't like those lines!

    
All Fonts in DateBk5 with NoLinesHack activated. And on the right with lines.

If you don't like a sign or letter and you can explain what you don't like and maybe even what I should change, please write me about it:erich.kupferschmid@gmx.ch . Don't tell me that you like "Times" better, since I won't change the whole font.

I used Pilot Font Editor (for Windows) v1.2 by Sergey Menshikov to create these fonts.

(c) copyright by Erich Kupferschmid, erich.kupferschmid@gmx.ch
Please redistribute the swiz Font Set only in the zip-file as is, with this file included. The fonts are free.