Thread: Forma I will use whatever the default font face is set for a book. Here's why.
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Old 06-28-2020, 08:08 AM   #18
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Originally Posted by droopy View Post
Who's with me?
I just recently started using publisher defaults. And it wasn't as bad as it used to be. Probably because ereaders are now 300 ppi with frontlights, it is easier to pull off the overly thin, spindly serif fonts that are usually chosen.

But seriously do these typesetters ever look at how it reads?? Looking at the typical mmpb I would say the answer is a solid no. It is really remarkable how much money publishers claim for so little effort invested on their part.

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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
While your at it, please strangle everyone who embeds fonts that are too light for eInk in trying to duplicate the font(s) used in the pBook version. And strangle Penguin Random House for embedding stupid fonts for a single stupid page at the end of ALL of the Penguin eBooks.
My "favorite" horrible mistake was an ebook having the font color set to brown. It rendered on my Kobo as a light grey I did not uncover the problem until I went into Calibre to snoop around and fix it. That was only a couple of years ago btw.
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