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, 09:16 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by haydnfan View Post
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.
Why would someone use colored text? That's just a really bad idea.

My favorite screw-up with fonts is with The Martian. The publisher decided to embed a font for serif, sans-serif, and monospace. They book uses all three types of fonts. But they chose to use Free Serif, Free Sans, and Free Mono. Awful fonts. Way way too light. Not even good enough for an iPhone/iPad. Of the three fonts, the worst is Free Mono. It's just very hard to read. The solution was to dump the fonts. If I was making eBooks, I would always check on an eInk device to see how it looks. I would use a 300DPI Reader and an old 800x600 Reader. As well as an iPhone, iPad, and laptop.
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