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Originally Posted by Jellby
I would have some indignation at least if I found a printed book with poor kerning, missing ligatures (like "fi" being a ligature but not "fj"), or different font for some characters (why does "à" look thicker than "a"?). I'd mostly think the publisher is rather crappy and wish it was an e-book so I can fix it.
What would cause me more indignation is finding these problems in an e-book with an embedded font. They should have left the embedded font out and let me chose the right one.
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Yes, Jellby, of course.
On the other hand, as we all know, kerning in ebooks is an entirely different kettle of fish, AND, to top it off, most layout houses now barely kern, or kern automatically--not by hand!--and hope for the best.
It's extremely like the new mindset that
"AAAAHHH!!! Typos MUST be fixed RIGHT. THIS. SECOND!," as if the reader's head will explode if the author doesn't rapidly fix his book and reupload it at the KDP, et al. It's absurdity. It's a paradigm shift from a mere 10 years ago, and it serves NO ONE well. I've ranted about this here before. It encourages bad writers to continue writing ("oh, well, I can always fix it and upload a new book") and has turned readers--who should be able to buy a book with a reasonable expectation that it's been edited and proofed--into unpaid proofers for mediocre writers and bad publishers.
There are, like it or not, good reasons for
some uses of fonts.
Hitch