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Old 08-30-2019, 10:45 AM   #27
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by lumpynose View Post
I went looking through my books and I don't think I have any novels that use sans serif for the body text. Technical and non-fiction books often use it. Magazines almost always use it; I think I read somewhere that magazines are why sans serif fonts became popular.
I just had a look at a magazine and it has a mix of serif and sans-serif.

But, on eInk, the font has to have enough weight and most embedded fonts don't have enough weight. They may look OK on a tablet, but eInk, nope.
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