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Originally Posted by Quoth
Over 90% worldwide in English sales of ebook are Amazon. Slightly more than 1/2 read on Kindle App on phone/tablet (and till recently much poorer on iOS Kindle App), the rest on Kindles.
And then older Kindles are HTML3 and no embedded fonts.
You also can't make Kindle users use the Publisher settings/fonts. The default is an Amazon Theme.
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Other than the stupid drop cap font sizing on KFX, my source EPUB looks the same when read by a variety of readers with reasonable CSS support (tables and small caps are the only things that might fall back to something that is just wrong) and on the Kindle as KFX. I use some embedded fonts for special features (handwriting, chapter names, etc.), but if the device falls back to the base font because it doesn't have the capability, that's not the end of the world. I never set the base reading font in the EPUB...even my old Onyx Boox allowed me to pick that.
If I could figure out a media query that picked just KFX so I could have drop cap formatting for that format separate, then I'd have a single file that would be fine pretty much everywhere: KFX and KF8 Kindles, and other readers that support EPUB. I really don't even try to deal with devices that only support MOBI.