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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
You should really let the user choose the font, if their ereader supports that. Not specify it. Readers often prefer different fonts than you might.
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Susan:
He might have a perfectly good reason to want a slightly different font; say the hero stumbles across a road-sign, or a diary entry. Or a newspaper article, and he wants to change the headline font, so as to alert the reader that what s/he is reading now is removed from the regular narrative flow. Using a different font is an excellent way to signal that, in an environment in which many of the other routes traditionally available to book designers, like using blockquoted-style text, are no longer available to him or her.
Just an observation. I mean, sure, s/he could just use bold, or make it bigger, but...using a line or some words in Courier monospaced wouldn't ruin the whole book for someone; and in pre-KF8 mobis, the user didn't have the luxury of choosing his or her font anyway; they were "stuck" with Caecilia (TNR clone).
Best,
Hitch