Thread: Forma I will use whatever the default font face is set for a book. Here's why.
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Old 06-30-2020, 11:29 AM   #45
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Originally Posted by droopy View Post
I gotta admit, this Simon&Schuster book which prompted this thread, the book whose body's text I described as having a font that is svelte.... Well, that svelte font, I gotta admit, is hard to read. I feel like I have to read that book under brighter ceiling light or else I feel like my eyesight has gotten bad!

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/at...1&d=1593450212

By the way, can you please share a pic of a PenguinRandomHouse book page that has a lot of "embedded stupid fonts in a single page"
The font used (I think) in that S&S eBook is EBGaramond. I've seen it used in over S&S eBooks.

Here is the screen grab showing the page that Penguin uses in their eBooks. They embed fonts and that makes the eBook larger for no good reason. It looks worse on an eInk screen. The gray fonts are actually some shade of red and they show much lighter.

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