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Originally Posted by Turtle91
That might help with Amazon/Kindle but doesn't the user have to enable embedded fonts to see them?
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I've never had to enable "Publisher" to see embedded fonts that are not trying to replace the main reading font. Perhaps this was true with older firmware.
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Is it more work to make a custom glyph in a custom font than to make the background transparent in an image??
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It depends.
I use HighLogic FontCreator, which allows you to paste any clipboard image into the glyph as "background". It's not really part of the glyph, but can be used to help you draw what you want. Once you paste, though, there is a "trace outlines" command that will draw the lines for you. After that, you just export as an OTF file (FontCreator uses its own project file format so that it can keep extra bits like the backgrounds). Paste/trace on 20 glyphs will take about 10 minutes.
LTC Fleurons is a good commercial font.
Fontspace has a reasonable selection of fleuron fonts, some completely free to use.