The ability to embed fonts is a complex one and requires not only technical knowledge, but also legal knowledge and an understanding of device support.

Before you produce an epub file for a device which supports embedded fonts, you should first consider using one of the fonts already built into the device. See the list of fonts included with each device.

Contents 1 Method 2 Device Support 3 Embeddable Fonts: Free or Open Source 4 Embeddable Fonts: Commercial 5 Licensing Issues: What to look for in a font license

[edit] Method

Epub2:

Epub3:

[edit] Device Support

[edit] Embeddable Fonts: Free or Open Source

• League of Movable Type, a collection of open source fonts.
• Gentium, a well-known open source fonts.
• DejaVu, wide-range unicode font
• Well crafted (free) fonts by Jos Buivenga
• Font Squirrel
• Google Web Fonts

[edit] Embeddable Fonts: Commercial

[edit] Licensing Issues: What to look for in a font license