When I’m working in Sigil, my ebook editing software of choice, fonts have to be added this way. Fortunately, the lovely folks at Kobo have already written the post for me. Unfortunately, describing the process would take up an entire post. There are a few ways to embed your font(s) into your ebook:Īdding fonts by hand is relatively straight forward, if you know what you’re doing.

Well, one of the kinds of support files that ebooks support is OTF (OpenType Font) fonts. Remember that each ebook is just a big ZIP archive, made up of HTML and support files. You can actually put the font files right into your ebook, so that the text should display the way you want it to even if it isn’t installed on the ereader. Well, there’s only so much we can do about that second problem - but what about the first, the fact that the fonts aren’t installed? If that’s what the reader wants, that’s what the reader gets. Remember: miniscule purple Zapfino on an orange background. Second, even if it is installed, if the user has changed the font settings, their preference takes precedence. So your ereader will go with its default sans-serif font, whatever that may be. Trust me: none of them have mgs4brush installed. Say you want to add pretty fonts, like I did here:Īll you need to do is add one property to your stylesheet, your header, or in a style attribute:įirst of all, if the ereader doesn’t have the font installed, it doesn’t know how to display it. Well, maybe not, but trust me: using CSS you can make your text sit up and shake paws. Remember back when we were discussing all of the fun ways that you can tell an ereader how to display your ebook - the rules known as Cascading Stylesheets (or CSS)?

Using CSS to make particular fonts display

Using CSS to make particular fonts display.

Feel free to download it and poke around!) How to Embed Fonts (This is from the ebook for White Robes, the short story that I’ve used as an example in many of the posts I’ve done here. Here’s the thing: Yes, we can add fonts to an ebook so that it looks beautiful: I certainly get asked about fonts in ebooks a lot. And we want our ebooks to look just as good, don’t we? Well, not everyone - but we sure spend a lot of time and energy making sure that we find just the right ones for our print books.

Get rid of calibri font