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Hitch · 02-08-2014, 02:34 PM

Alas, my best friends:

No, 'tis not one or two fonts with all their faces, 'tis 9 unique fonts, and all THEIR faces. I have tried, quite earnestly, to talk them out of it, using my last-resort tactic of pointing out what it will weigh in terms of book size, but....to no avail.

I am perfectly willing to embed chapter head/title page font. That doesn't faze me. Body font, though...I really try to wriggle out of that. Or using special fonts for text-messages, IM's, email, letters, mostly because of all the devices that won't support them. Of course, we create fallbacks, but people don't think about that, about what a fallback MIGHT look like on someone's old Sony, or what have you.

Newer readers are increasingly either overriding the font choices to begin with (yes, I'm talking to you, B&N!!!) or allowing the reader to do it, even with embedded fonts, so...it's hard to know how the Great Font Wars of 2013 will turn out, in the end. ;-)

@Exalted: no, t'was not Comic Sans, but, bygod, I was certainly expecting it by the time I got to the bottom of the fonts list in the PDF.

Hitch

02-08-2014, 02:34 PM	#14
Hitch Bookmaker & Cat Slave Posts: 11,503 Karma: 158448243 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Phoenix, AZ Device: K2, iPad, KFire, PPW, Voyage, NookColor. 2 Droid, Oasis, Boox Note2	Alas, my best friends: No, 'tis not one or two fonts with all their faces, 'tis 9 unique fonts, and all THEIR faces. I have tried, quite earnestly, to talk them out of it, using my last-resort tactic of pointing out what it will weigh in terms of book size, but....to no avail. I am perfectly willing to embed chapter head/title page font. That doesn't faze me. Body font, though...I really try to wriggle out of that. Or using special fonts for text-messages, IM's, email, letters, mostly because of all the devices that won't support them. Of course, we create fallbacks, but people don't think about that, about what a fallback MIGHT look like on someone's old Sony, or what have you. Newer readers are increasingly either overriding the font choices to begin with (yes, I'm talking to you, B&N!!!) or allowing the reader to do it, even with embedded fonts, so...it's hard to know how the Great Font Wars of 2013 will turn out, in the end. ;-) @Exalted: no, t'was not Comic Sans, but, bygod, I was certainly expecting it by the time I got to the bottom of the fonts list in the PDF. Hitch