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Old 08-27-2019, 12:39 AM   #13
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Originally Posted by jhowell View Post
Perhaps I am just a bit peeved because I read a book recently on my Kindle where what you want to do didn’t work for me. The publisher put some words in a custom font with thin lines simulating pen and ink writing. It was unreadable on my device until I expanded the font size. It took me right out of world of the book and left me with a bad experience.

This reminds me of something I read recently in another forum about a self-published author who had the bright idea of having each character’s viewpoint be represented by a different font. Yikes!

Put your art into your writing and make the presentation as unobtrusive as possible.
I know that client. Been there, done that--and he had 40--FORTY--characters. Forty different fonts--forty-one with the main narrative font. I cannot tell you what I went through during that quote, trying to explain to him that what he wanted to do was a freaking nightmare.

Fortunately, our font embedding fees (per face) happily dissuaded him and he headed on out, down the road to some less-picky formatter. :-) I mean, sure--we'll take almost any work, for almost any client...but I'm very reluctant to take a job that would probably earn me the scorn of the entire community and probably get me in Dutch with Amazon as icing, too.

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