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Originally Posted by Sella174
Now everyone and their dog wants to use fonts that the e-reader knows very little about and which are in probability very badly defined, e.g. kerning is absent. Here be monsters.
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I don't think Kindles use font kerning. Maybe KFX does, with its "enhanced typesetting".
Anyway, I've used embedded fonts in one series because the publisher insisted the ebooks used the same font as the printed ones. So these use the embedded Garamond font throughout, and that seems to work fine.
Otherwise, a few display fonts, as in the Fraktur one I used in the example that prompted this thread.
Or, when I need to have some Chinese characters, I embedded a Chinese font.
I'd rather we be allowed to use our own fonts if we choose. It's on you if you use a "monster". What's the alternative? We can only use fonts pre-approved by Amazon? No doubt sold by Amazon at a nice markup? Screw that. Or images of text? Ugh.
But many ebooks I see have useless and/or ugly fonts embedded, so I just delete them, and save a few MB while improving the appearance.