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Originally Posted by nabsltd
Almost no publisher in the past 20 years would settle for that low of a bar for a hardback print book, so why do we have to settle for an ebook?
Font choice is the #1 thing that I feel that publishers screw up. They shouldn't actually choose a body font, as the reader software allows the user to pick that, but if they do, they need to choose with the same care they did for print books. That doesn't mean the same font...differences in the rendering device means different criteria in picking a font.
Instead, most pick the first free-to-distribute font they can find (usually Charis) and end it. It would be different if fonts were expensive, but they aren't. There are probably over 100K great fonts that license for less than $50 per ebook title they are embedded in, and still a large number for less than $20 per title.
As for the rest of your list, again, just use the same care and thought you used when creating the print book.
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What the publishers are trying to do is duplicate the print version as best they can and so they use the same fonts. Granted that most of the fonts used in print don't work well with eInk. But that doesn't seem to concern the publishers. Usually I leave the fonts except for the main font and just use my choice. Sometimes you see the font families in the CSS without the actual fonts being embedded. I remove those as sometimes they can cause the reading software to not work to change the font.