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Originally Posted by stumped
I dont understand, if the book text uses all 26 letters of the alphabet then the subset is essentially "complete" enough for re-use?
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Most of the added fonts I've seen are in two groups. Fonts used for body text are often freely distributable (Charis SIL was commonly used by one publishing house). The remainder are decorative fonts (those cursive letters some folk love for dropcaps and the first letter of chapter headings, as examples). The first set does not need protection and the second set will likely only have one font variant (regular, bold, bold-italic or italic) and use a relatively small number of characters with no numerals or lower case. That group is better protected by subsetting.