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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
Dyslexic readers I have spoken with overwhelmingly prefer sans-serif fonts, and actually quite a few of them prefer Comic Sans MS even though designers despise it.
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But if they have a modern Reader (Kobo or Kindle) or the correct software, they can choose what font works for them. I've seen many eBooks using fonts that don't work. A lot of fonts are too light for eInk screens. They don't have enough weight to them and that makes your book hard to read.
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I know they say to use Sans for headers, Serif for content - but I find it more readable to use Sans for both.
I usually use Helvetica Bold for headers (section titles) in LaTeX and either Clear Sans or Lucida Sans for content - but my Helvetica (and my Lucica Sans) licenses only cover Type 1 .pfb
Specify Helvetica w/o including it, and many will use Arial which is definitely not as pleasant to look at for section titles. Liberation Sans though is metric compatible w/ Helvetica and looks very good.
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It is OK to use sans-serif for headers/chapter titles. But it's not OK to embed a font for that. Just specify sans-serif and the reader will see whatever the default sans-serif font is. You don't need Helvetica or a font that's similar. Nobody will care that the sans-serif on their device is not Helvelitca or similar. They will just care that they can read it.
Before you embed a font, ask yourself, do you really need this font? Will the book display properly using whatever the default font is? On my Kobo Reader, I have a font that I use when I read. It's my preferred choice. I don't recall if embedded fonts can be overridden as it's been so long since I've tried as I strip out most embedded fonts. But if the font(s) you've used was not appropriate for me and I didn't have the ability strip/change/override, I'd either have to put up with it or not read your book.
So please don't embed when you don't need to. On a Kindle, most people won't read with your fonts and those reading ePub will curse you.