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sgirsberger · 11-16-2013, 10:48 PM

So, I've got this lovely EPUB with all the right spacing and appearance and everything is working beautifully every way the devices turn, except for one weird thing on the iPad in iBooks.

In every instance in which a sans serif font is used, the oblique or slanted version of the font displays as serif italic. I have tried using a span class with a sans serif font-family specified in addition to font-style set as oblique, I've tried setting the font-style to italic, but it ALWAYS displays serif italics. I feel pretty strongly about the sans serif obliques, but I don't know which permutation is going to get me there.

Before you ask, no, there is no font embedding. I spec'd the fonts that are on the iPad -- Seravek, "Gill Sans", sans-serif -- as the font-family, but they're not embedded, and I really don't want to embed them. The publisher wants to keep this as simple as possible.

Any advice on this subject is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

11-16-2013, 10:48 PM	#1
sgirsberger Enthusiast Posts: 41 Karma: 1000 Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Virginia Beach, VA, USA Device: iPhone, NOOK Color, iPad Pro, Kindle Fire HD	Italic versus oblique So, I've got this lovely EPUB with all the right spacing and appearance and everything is working beautifully every way the devices turn, except for one weird thing on the iPad in iBooks. In every instance in which a sans serif font is used, the oblique or slanted version of the font displays as serif italic. I have tried using a span class with a sans serif font-family specified in addition to font-style set as oblique, I've tried setting the font-style to italic, but it ALWAYS displays serif italics. I feel pretty strongly about the sans serif obliques, but I don't know which permutation is going to get me there. Before you ask, no, there is no font embedding. I spec'd the fonts that are on the iPad -- Seravek, "Gill Sans", sans-serif -- as the font-family, but they're not embedded, and I really don't want to embed them. The publisher wants to keep this as simple as possible. Any advice on this subject is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.