[GJ Coop]

Well, I've re-uploaded a new .mobi file, created as an .epub in Calibre and converted in Kindle Desktop Previewer, for probably the 20th time, I'm getting to know the mechanics of The System. It looks OK in the KDP Online previewer. Actually it looks exactly what I want, so fingers crossed for tomorrow morning.

Spent some of today fiddling around with spans and classes. In between unblocking, err, the toilet.

This time the upload has the third font. I initially had a go with Impact, since it's on every computer, but maybe it was copy protected in some way.

The second font was the clearly public domain Oswald, a straightforward compact font. If any font should work, this one was specifically designed and optimised for the web, you would think that one would. It's available as both .ttf and .otf and of course I tried them both.

This third font is also a free web font from Google Web Fonts, the strangely nomenclatured "Yanone Kaffeesatz Regular". It seems to be looking OK, at least in the KDP online preview and on the Kindle Desktop Reader.

Somehow I'm feeling like I'm transported back to my early days of doing desktop publishing, early 1990s Pagemaker, except back then they could actually get the fonts to work. Not much progress in the last 21 years by the look of things. I guess we see the result in a difference in vision between Jobs and Bezos.

I don't think I'm doing anything too special, just a single additional compact sans serif font for a title page and for the chapter headings. I had validating code 4 weeks ago and I'm now at the point where I think I might just have to publish where they use .epub. I want my book to look the simple way I've designed it.