You need a font for the main body copy and you need a font for chapter heading. If you’re formatting a novel, your choices are straightforward. I’m using font and typeface to mean the same thing, In the original meaning, font is a subset of typeface but the meaning of the two terms has become intertwined. I’ll also leave the question of typography on book covers and focus on interior formatting. This article aims to keep things simple and just look at the options offered by the Kindle Fire. If you want to get a different look by using an unsupported font for your chapter headings, for example, set the headings in the font of your choice, save them as jpegs and insert them as pictures. There isn’t any overriding reason to embed fonts in an ebook. The typeface could be extracted from the file, falling foul of the vendor’s terms and conditions.
This is no problem with print books as the typeface is properly embedded into the file as, for example, part of a PDF.Įmbedding is quite different with an ebook file as the font is included as part of the overall epub or mobi file which then pulls the font into the ebook when in use. There is also the issue of legality as many typefaces are covered by licensing terms and conditions which do not allow distribution of the typeface. This isn’t necessarily a good idea as many readers like to change the font on their Kindle to suit their own tastes rather than being forced to stick to your insistence of, say, single-spaced Verdana, which would give me a headache fairly quickly. The Kindle app for the iPad includes, depending on the version of the app, Baskerville, Caecilia, Georgia, Helvetica, and Palatino. The Kindle Paperwhite adds Futura, but you wouldn’t use it unless you were sure your book was going to Paperwhite readers only. The Kindle Fire has a font set comprising 12 typefaces: What are the best fonts to use for ebooks? Writers who self-publish can get a shock when they publish an ebook with carefully selected styles and then view it on a Kindle to find their selected typefaces have been changed, sometimes dramatically.
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