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Questions tagged [fonts]

Tag for questions about availability and support for specific fonts on various e-book readers.

Fonts are the crucial part of e-book viewing.

There are 2 types of fonts: built-in in device and embedded in e-book file.

In order to be able to read an e-book in your language, you need to assert, that either the device you are using has built-in font for your language, or it support rendering the e-book using fonts built in into that document (for example, PDF with embedded fonts).

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What is the most readable font for an ebook?

Occasionally when I download works from Smashwords there are several different fonts used in one work (seen in independent works that have not been professionally edited). This mix match of fonts styles can make reading kind of bumpy, but it got me…
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What is the most popular font style for ebooks?

I can't even guess at how many font styles might exist, but it is a lot. What are the most communally used fonts in ebooks? Does it vary by language or region?
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How can a reading pad not come with the Times New Roman font?

I had to manually figure out how to copy over the Times New Roman font from my Windows machine to my new PocketBook InkPad Color. It had nothing like it selectable by default. What could possibly explain this? Isn't Times New Roman literally the…
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Font not loading in Epub

I have this folder structure: ./Fonts/chimod.otf ./Styles/style.css ./Text/main.xhtml content.opf toc.ncx Here is the content.opf:
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