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Originally Posted by Doitsu
IMHO, it's more likely that they don't like the fact that adding Charis SIL will significantly increase the size of a book without adding much value, and since Amazon needs to host all the books on their servers and server space costs money they most likely don't want publisher to embed full font sets, regardless of the font.
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That can easily be fixed by subsetting the font. In fact, I suggest subsetting no matter which font is used. Calibre does a very good job subsetting,
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Charis SIL is a nice font, but, IMHO, it's not better than the default serif font, Caecilia, which has been optimized for eInk displays.
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Caecilla has not actually been optimized for eInk. It's the Kindle software diddling Caecilla to have more weight and create the different versions like the condensed version. Caecilla looks like a cross between Courier and a variable width font. It's not all that nice. Charis SIL does look much nicer.
I agree that Charis SIL is rather larger and does need to be subset. The Sta Wars sample I had a look at yesterday did have Charis SIL embedded but the fonts have been subset. Subsetting can take an ePub of 2-3MB to less then 1MB.