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Originally Posted by theducks
Hitch
You meann I should not use 'rickety Old Typewriter' font??
But that looks JUST like what the Author used 
But it looks just like what comes off of the machine that is stashed on the top shelf in the garage  |
If you only knew how many eBooks are out there with "Typewriter" font, Ducky, if you only knew. (And yes...we did them...not my choice, don't burn me at the stake, kids...)
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Originally Posted by Toxaris
Fonts are tricky. Usually I just don't add them and let the reader use the fonts on the device. However, in some cases it can add something to the reading experience. Think about headers or example or what about a note (e.g. a letter) in the text. There it can add to it.
In some cases I change the body font, Caslon is very nice and is very usable for e-ink. For some people I change the body font for a font that is suitable for dyslexic. With those fonts they can read much more easily. I think that all readers should have a built-in font for dyslexic people anyway.
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I confess to some mad Caslon love myself. I also like Bembo, a LOT. (Because there's almost no Garamond that works on an eReader, unless it's already on the device. Embedding it? {shudders}). As Jon noted, Baskerville is good. We've used Janson as a faux-Garamond, when a client just could NOT move off of Garamond, because it's a heavier font. It's a damn near dupe of G...just heavier which works better in the Kindleverse.
Ah, fonts.
How the hell did we get here, from full size images, any-damned-way? This isn't my fault, is it?
Hitch