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Originally Posted by Hitch
I can now confirm this issue with Libre Baskerville on several of the Kindle devices, including PPW and K3. PPW view (this is a screenshot from Previewer just because it's easier, but it's the same on the device) attached.
Dgatwood:
I don't know if this is a stem value issue. (I'm not yet at the point where I can adapt fonts. I'm still only halfway through Bringhurst.) Honestly, it's a bit odd that it looks fine on all other devices (Fire, HD, etc.) but goes utterly wonk on two of the e-ink KF8 devices. We'll investigate, but..I thought that the OP might want to know that our shop has just encountered this, also, just this day. We've confirmed this on real device testing, to include the Keyboardless (the K3 replacement sans Keyboard, whatever they are calling that now).
We are testing on this now; this is the first book in which we've encountered this issue for a Baskerville font. We have seen similar things with some other fonts, but this one, on this font, is new to us.
Hitch
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That looks like an amazingly extreme version of what I've seen in fonts whose stem values were wrong. Usually, it results in random letters being too high or low by a couple of pixels, and slightly distorted.
Or it could be that the hinting is completely and utterly out to lunch, in which case, a conversion service that does autohinting might fix the problem by nuking the bad hinting.
Either way, glad you have a solution that works for you, and it is definitely worth contacting the font maintainers, because as you said, I'm sure you're not the only one running into this by any stretch of the imagination, and the problem really needs to be fixed globally.