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Originally Posted by Hitch
But with a subtle and tasteful use of fonts, I can give you the eyball-joy of a book. What else can do that, in our digital world?
And more importantly, Padawan Apprentice...I can make your LITB sit up and take notice. ;-)
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I took the first Harry Potter eBook and modified it to use the same fonts that are in the American Print version. I'm not sure if I used the same main font or not, but the other fonts are either the same or similar enough. It looks good..
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Indeed. if you embed AGaramond, you are going to hell, where Satan will set you up with the eyesight of a middle-aged or older person, and eternity of embedded Garamond. It's brutal.
But Garamond is a lovely, lovely font for reading. It is, There are ways around this--using some of its cousins in the Adobe family, for example Caslon or Janson or others--but these things take TIME and effort to do well. Most commercial firms, certainly in our meager price range, can't be bothered. I can't live without bothering. ;-)
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What could be done to maybe use Adobe Garamond is to embed the semibold version. At least that would look better due to more weight.
Another really good font is Monotype Baskerville eText.
<--click the link
The problem (as I see it) is that publishers try to duplicate the pBook and it doesn't always work. They use fonts that don't translate well to an eInk screen. The worst book I've ever seen is
The Martian. They chose to embed Free Serif, Free Sans, and Free Mono. Those fonts are way way too light and they are plain awful fonts. If I was unable to dump the fonts, there is no way I would be able to read it.
Can you point me to some eBooks that actually do a good job with embedded fonts?