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Originally Posted by Hitch
Well. I gotta admit, I've never seen anyone embed TNR before, and I didn't notice it. I read those on my Voyage--and they seemed fine. FWIW.
I actually reached out to the book designer on that (The casebooks) and congratulated her, in fact. Nicely done.
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As for TNR as an embedded font, I have not tried the eBook on my H2O. But I have tried it on my iPhone an I find it's too light. It undoes all the other good things that were done in the book. It spoils the book. On your Voyage, do you have Publisher fonts turned on? If not, you won't be seeing TNR.
Since you've been in contact, can you do so again and suggest TNR be removed? I don't see any reason for an embedded font for the main text. Sure, put in a font family of serif so on a Kindle a serif font will be used, but TNR should go. It makes a well designed eBook into a poorly designed eBook.
The choice of fonts to embed can be the difference between a well made eBook and a poorly made eBook. The worst eBook I've ever seen in terms of embedded fonts is
The Martian by Andy Weir. The publisher used Free Sans, Free Serif, and Free Mono. Three really awful fonts. If I wasn't able to edit the eBook to deal with these fonts, I would have found the eBook unreadable.
One other thing I find I really dislike is when the chapter header is made to link back to the internal ToC. It doesn't look nice at all. I find there to be no need to do this as there is a ToC that's easily accessible without having to move to a different place in the eBook.