Songbook font size

After going to some club sessions using the new book it is obvious that in a number of songs the font size is just tooooooooooo small. I will be looking over the next few weeks on how to increase the font sizes while still keeping most songs on 1 page so people don’t have to scroll forward a page on their tablet or turn over a page if paper.

This may result in less space betwen verses, maybe smaller chord diagrams (especially on songs using the simpler chords), maybe having no chord diagrams for some simpler chord songs and maybe even removing some verses where this can be done without impacting the song too much.

Another option is to put chord diagrams in only 1 column where feasible to give more space to the lyrics.

Anyway watch this space – will let you know when a new version is done – will have no more or less songs (may have some corrections in chord placements etc). Hopefully this will also have the fix for the link to contents on Reader in iBooks and Polaris pdf viewer on Android (don’t forget that Adobe Reader  seems to work well on both)

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4 thoughts on “Songbook font size

    1. You can download the songbooks by going to https://ozbcoz.com/songbooks and then click on the name of the songbook you would like to download. You can also download any particular song by going to the song Then when there and the song you want is showing, click on PDF menu item then Songbook PDF and the song will be downloaded.

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  1. Try Aphont – it makes a significant difference. Much more legible than Arial but more compact so you get more text per page. Designed for people who are partially sighted by The American Printing House for The Blind.

    I use it for all my song sheets and I bet you didn’t even notice that it was anything special 🙂

    You have to sign a declaration that you are using it for people who are partially sighted. Which, given the age profile of uke club members, is true!

    http://www.aph.org/products/aphont/

    Do not believe the usual advice that Arial is the most “accessible” font. I was responsible for producing accessible information for people with disabilities and I bothered to study the research on fonts. Aphont is more accessible (and takes up less space) than Arial; Aphont, Verdana and Georgia are all more accessible for on screen reading than Arial.

    You need to embed the fonts in the file so that people without Aphont on their computers can get the benefit. I am afraid that I have been using Aphont for so long that I cannot remember if you have to tweak any settings to do this. There might be instructions on the APH website.

    Roughy, as an example, if you have been using Arial 12 point then if you swapped to Aphont 12 point you would have a more legible print out with more words per page. You might be able to bump it up to Aphont 14 point for even better readability and still keep a song all on one page.

    Best wishes,
    Liz

  2. Liz,
    Do you know what happens to your text and formatting if it is in Aphont
    but then you convert to PDF/convert to Word/convert to PDF?

    Thanks.
    Linda

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