![]() ![]() The picture below shows Kindle Fire on the left and Kindle DX on the right. One other reality you need to keep in mind is that not all devices support custom fonts. We mentioned one already: larger file size which then leads to larger delivery costs on Amazon. This is actually one of the pitfalls of using custom fonts, at least with Amazon. ![]() Fonts add to the overall size of the ebook, and the larger the size, the larger Amazon’s “delivery costs,” which means a smaller royalty for you. Of course, if you did not rename the family of your custom font, do go ahead and pick the font from the dropdown.īefore generating the final ebook, be sure to delete any unused fonts from the project. Just type in the new family name ( Chapter Headings in this example), making sure to match spaces and capitalization. Do not select the original font family name-it will look great in the Jutoh window, but it will be ignored by the ereader. However, if you have the original font installed in your system ( CinzelDecorative-Black in our example), that font will be in the dropdown. If you renamed the font family of your custom font to Chapter Headings, you will not be able to pick that from the list. Jutoh will not display the custom font family names in the font dropdown box. The font is now ready to apply to paragraphs or blocks of text. For each configuration, scroll down to the “Fonts and Colour” section and turn on the “Embed fonts” check box. To do this, click the “Book” menu, then the “Edit Configuration” sub-menu. One last piece of setup is to turn on “Embed Fonts” for each of your configurations. Instruct Jutoh to output your custom font(s) Using this mechanism, you can add several fonts to your project, and then experiment with each one by giving the one you want to try next the family name of Chapter Headings. On the other hand, if you had renamed the font family to Chapter Headings, all you’d have to do is to rename the CinzelDecorative-Black font family to Old Chapter Headings, add the new font, and rename that one to Chapter Headings, and everything with that name would change throughout the entire document. If you decide later that you don’t like CinzelDecorative-Black after all, and you’d like to try Elephant instead but have left the family name as CinzelDecorative-Black, you’d then need to find all the places in the document where you applied CinzelDecorative-Black and change them to Elephant. Why is this important? When you apply this font to paragraphs or portions of text, you will choose the font by its family name. For this tutorial, I’m assuming that you are going to use this font on chapter headings, so I’d rename the font family from CinzelDecorative-Black to Chapter Headings. One step that is often overlooked here is to give the font “Family” a name consistent with its use within the project. ![]() For the purpose of this tutorial, I added CinzelDecorative-Black to my Jutoh project. Once you’ve add it to Jutoh, it will display under the Resources folder. You’ll need to locate the font on your computer. Now click the “Document” menu, then the “Add Embedded Font Document” sub-menu. When in doubt, check with the font owner. Just because you have the right to use the font on a printed document does not mean that you also have the right to embed it on an electronic document. Here is a screenshot of my Jutoh project, ready for some custom fonts.ĭoes the copyright allow you to use the font?īefore embedding a font into your ebook, check the “font embeddability” rights. The Jutoh projectįor this tutorial, I’m assuming you already have a Jutoh project ready, and that you now want to add a custom font, maybe for use on chapter headings, or maybe for drop caps. You can also compare Jutoh to other ebook software here, or you can read more about Jutoh on their website. And, if you are using Calibre, do yourself a favor-switch to Jutoh!Īt this writing, Jutoh is a one-time purchase of $39. What I can say is that I really like Jutoh. I know some of you are using Scrivener, but having never used it myself, I can’t compare the two. I’ve used it to generate upwards of 80 books. For those of you who do not use Jutoh to format your ebooks, you’ll find here some general pointers about the use of custom fonts, and some pitfalls you’ll need to be aware of.īut first, what is Jutoh? It is software you can use to create ebooks in Epub and Kindle formats. In this tutorial we will explore how to add custom fonts to your ebook using the Jutoh software. If you’re like us and love to read, then click here to score tons of free and discounted ebooks. Connecting the RIGHT readers with the RIGHT books ![]()
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