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Originally Posted by DreamWriter
My four e-books are now free of auto-hyphenation and other problems mentioned in this thread!
The solution was both simple and perplexing. I just added this to the ePub CSS:
Code:
body {font-family:"Bookerly", "Caecilia", serif;}
There is no font specified for main text otherwise (only titles and chapter headings), and the reader can still select their preferred paragraph font from the device's font menu, which is important to me.
For chapter headings and titles, {font-family:"Helvetica", sans-serif;} worked, but I later embedded fonts for those.
In the past, I did not specify a body font at all. This was never a problem for files I'd uploaded prior to mid-February 2015, but after that time the omission caused the following problems on several devices (Fire HD6, Fire HDX 8.9, and 2013 Fire HD7):
- Auto-hyphenation
- Darker, less crisp fonts
- Smaller, fuzzier chapter graphics and author photo
It feels SO good to have my books appear the way I intended again! I hope this information will help someone else.
I thank you all for your patience and generous assistance. Your efforts were truly appreciated! |
I want to add, that I'm extremely pleased for you, BUT:
Just the past few days, we've noticed that EVERY FONT, of every kind, whether put on the HTML (inline), CSS, added for the body, bodysection, individual elements, (etc. ad infinitum) has been getting completely ripped out, in toto, by Amazon.
I was in communication with them starting late on Friday (at 5:05, naturally, when we confirmed that it was not a freak incident with one book), over the entirety of the weekend. I don't think that THEY know what's causing it. The problem seemed intermittent on Saturday.
Dreamwriter:
You got your book through? So, as of the post step-6, your book has fonts? If you make it that far, it seems you're home free, and then use that mobi as your "final."
What a giant PITA. As "youse guys" know, we do a ton of white label, which means a TON of fonts, and we've had agita since Friday on this.
Hitch