Thread: how to get a serif font to work in an epub
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Old 11-28-2010, 07:51 PM   #2
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Originally Posted by Ray Tayek View Post
zipping up the epub (it still passes epubcheck) and viewing with mobi reader shows me a sans-serif font.
If "mobi reader" is Windows MobiPocket Reader (WMR), it does not read ePub directly. If you "import" an ePub WMR will convert it to MOBI and then display the MOBI. You could just as easily have it read the MOBI from kindlegen (WMR invokes an older version of kindlegen to do the conversion).

The usual advise for a MOBI ebook is not to set the font, because WMR (for example) allows the reader to choose the font they like. I think it should honor "serif" though.
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