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Originally Posted by Turtle91
And just to play devils advocate at this party 
Once someone found the "right font" (for them) wouldn't they tell the device/app to display all of their books with that font?? And with reflowable books, the number of characters per line changes with the user's preferences...
Unless a font plays a specific purpose in telling or enhancing the story, then I leave it generic and let the user figure it out.
...granted... I clean books for a MUCH smaller audience, so take it FWIW....  |
Yes, yes, Turtle, that's true--the reader changes the font to suit him or her, by which I mean, the size. And that changes the characters per line. BUT...you ever notice that the default size, on pretty much every dedicated reader, is 66 char line?
Twooly two?
@Diap:
THIS is comic sans:
And THIS is Papyrus:
I know they're large, but...whatcha gonna do?
God knows, yes, I've seen a lot worse, but...
My point is simply that the very art of print layout or font selection is so that your reader doesn't notice. That's all.
(And yes, there is some mathematical stuff that you gotta do, too, surrounding--yes, I kid thee not--the
Spira mirabilis, but the ideal print layout
is unnoticeable. And that holds true for eBooks, too.)
@Doug: I suspect that a lot of folks got interested in fonts, in the digital age because unlike print--now, they could control it. ;-)
Hitch