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Originally Posted by jackie_w
I think the fact that it can be legally distributed for free probably explains why.
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I think the fact that so many legacy publishers
included Charis is the very reason that it's the only font that Amazon mentions, in pretty much any context, in the Publisher's Guidelines. I suspect that all those legacy-pubs that outsourced their books got them back with Charis embedded, which, BTW, doesn't work all that great on a Kindle, and Amazon finally got tired of dealing with it, so put it in the guide. That's sheer speculation, but it makes sense--why else mention solely
one font?
For that matter, some fonts that are quite nice and commonly used in print suck on ebooks; Garamond, as one example. {shrug}.
Katsunami:
Replacing a font is certainly not hard by any stretch, as you know. Just pull one out, and put the other in, do a fast regex on the CSS page. Subsetting it is a valuable tool, but making a plug-in or feature just to "swap" fonts seems like overkill to me, not to mention a feature ripe for abuse by well-meaning, but under-knowledged amateurs (vis-a-vis embedding and licenses). If you want something that will do that, try Atlantis; it embeds fonts directly from your hard-drive, which gives me the licensing willies.
Hitch