Quote:
Originally Posted by droopy
Whatever a book's default font face is (labelled as Publisher Default in the dropdown list in Kobo's settings), I won't change it.
You know why? Because if you change it to Kobo Ember or Calibri or whatever, then you lose the variety of fonts that come with "Publisher Default".
For instance, I was reading a book last night whose chapter headings were sans-serif and block-like and whose main text was svelte and serif. If I go with something other than "Publisher Default", I get a boring, homogeneous look. Yes, the content is priority, but I now appreciate appearance/presentation more than I did years ago.
Who's with me?  |
Svelte is one heck of an ugly font to use for the body font. One thing I find is that most embedded body fonts don't work. They are too light and the wrong font. Sometimes fonts used for the header work well.
If I like any of the fonts embedded, I'll keep them. I've not yet kept a font for the body in a rather long time. I don't need to set to Publisher Default as the font(s) embedded will show up and I can still use my choice of body font. This is something you cannot do with a Kindle. You either set it to Publisher Default or you see no embedded fonts.