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Originally Posted by Hitch
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?
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I just downloaded the sample of the latest Star Wars eBook from Amazon and guess what? Charis SIL is embedded. One reason Charis SIL is embedded is that it does look better on then most default fonts use with ADE be it ADE for the computer, tablet, phone, eInk. Back when it was being embedded, most ADE installations used a really poor default font. Also, it has enough extended characters to prevent the ever popular ? in place of some extended character. Seems Amazon is all talk and they do indeed leave Charis SIL when it's embedded. Charis SIL displays fine (except for the line-height but that's a KF8 bug) on a Kindle Touch from what I've seen.