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Originally Posted by Hitch
Sure. How 'bout good old Liberation Sans? I know that works, it's a go-to for us. Also, let's see...GandhiSans-Regular (I think that's a Google font, but it might be DaFont), League_Gothic, which is a truetype (again, forget where from); OratorStd; Century Schoolbook (truetype). Those happen to be at the top of my brain at the moment, because we just did some books that had those, and I know factually all of those work at KDP. Does that help?
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Makes me cringe that some of those have been in my test pool. LeagueGothic-CondensedRegular, for example. That one came to me in otf (off of fontsquirrel's link) and KindlePreviewer warned that it's a PostScript font...tried anyway, and it was stripped.
But I will give it a shot with some of the others. Thank you very much for giving me a sampling to work from.
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Those font declarations in the manifest look fine. Yes, in the CSS it's: format() with the one word type, either "opentype" or "truetype" in the parenthesis, replete with quotemarks.
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I'll add that into my @font-face declarations then.
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What's weird to me is that you say your fonts are surviving being Genned (KG or KP); they work in your ePUBs, but somehow, they're being stripped at the KDP. That's just bloody peculiar. This has been going on for months? You upload a working, functioning mobi with embedded fonts, and the preview is font-less? Man. That's 
Hitch
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I agree, and I've been around and around with KDP support on this and they tell me that they are researching it, then send me some pathetic wrong answer over a month later, or they just tell me I am doing it wrong. But according to their documentation, I'm not.
So, yeah...
Facepalm indeed.
And for the record, if it is useful, I am happy to hand the file off with some of these sample fonts (since we know they should work) just to see if touching the epub is useful. I really feel pretty awful talking to a professional formatter and basically begging for help, but the reason I have gone to the the time and effort of researching how to do this properly myself is because I believe that keeping the process in house is, in the long run, a much better option. (Assuming you can figure out how to do it right...which at this point it seems that I can't! Everything was going well until I wanted to take that one last little professional step and give the headers a bit to set them off by embedding fonts. Now, months later I am finally at the point of public begging for help. *sigh*)