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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
"Too skinny" and "too light" are gateway font descriptions. Before you know it, people are into the heavy font stuff like: ascenders, descenders, ligatures and kerning--oh, my! At that point all I hear is that Peanuts adult trombone voice and my eyes glaze over.  |
Hell, I get that trombone about a lot of things. No explanation needed.
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Like I said: I had no idea there was anything different about the fonts in this book until this thread. What can I say? I don't know my serif (visually) from a hole in the ground. I just don't notice those subtle things. No eyestrain. No distraction. I read commercial books I buy with the fonts that appear (I rarely know if the fonts are from the book or the reader/app). Same speed, same way, same obliviousness. All fonts all books. I actually consider myself quite lucky that way. One less thing to stress over. 
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If it doesn't bother your eyes, or make your eyes feel tired, etc. then you
should ignore it. Seriously.
But typically, a "bad" font like that (I'm not trying to be subjective; I'm looking at it objectively, in terms of all those pesky trombone reasons) will
literally cause you to develop headaches, swimming eyes, etc. It has to do with signals that the eye sends to the brain.
(That's also tied to line-length, too. If a line is too short, your brain sends a "flick" along with your eyeball's flick, to your brain. If the line's too short, your noggin starts to feel irritable, antsy. If it's too long, you start to feel bored with the story, sleepy-ish, even.)
Text that doesn't flow smoothly can also cause this same sort of eye-brain chemical interaction.
Just out of curiosity--and forgive me for not paying attention--are you sure that you are
seeing the Free Serif, and not some other default font, on your device? I realize that I'm talking with you, and you'd know, but you
have mentioned that you don't pay attention to fonts. Does your device always display the fonts that are embedded?
Hitch