More fonts for eBooks on iBooks on the iPad

[Update: With iBooks 1.1, Apple has changed much of the system for applying fonts. Please read Apple damaging ePub standards with pseudo-support and Apple kills fonts in iBooks, strikes blow to standards.]

Just a few minutes ago, I wrote that there were 10 possible fonts you could use when designing eBooks to be read with iBooks on the iPad, but it turns out there are several more, 44 according to this site, with 109 font styles in all.

I tried them out to make sure they work in iBooks on the iPad and sure enough, they did:







That is, most of them did. I’m not sure what I’m doing wrong with Zapf Dingbats but I can’t get it to work at all, not even in TextEdit. And I don’t have sample text for the non-Latin alphabets.

Here’s the full list. If you view this page on the iPad, you should see all the font names displayed with the corresponding font. On a desktop computer, they’ll only display correctly if you have them installed in your system—and most of them do not come standard with either the Mac or Windows OS.

Remember: many of these also have additional styles (bold, italic, etc.). I’ll see if I can get a full table up.

• Academy Engraved LET: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• American Typewriter: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• AppleGothic: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Arial: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Arial Rounded MT Bold: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Baskerville: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Bodoni 72: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Bodoni 72 Oldstyle: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Bodoni 72 Smallcaps: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Bodoni Ornaments: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
• Bradley Hand: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Chalkduster: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Cochin: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Copperplate: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Courier: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Courier New: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• DB LCD Temp: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Didot: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Futura: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Futura Condensed Extra Bold: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Georgia: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Gill Sans: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Helvetica: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Helvetica Neue: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Hoefler Text: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Marker Felt: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Optima: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Palatino: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Papyrus: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Snell Roundhand: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Times New Roman: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Trebuchet MS: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Verdana: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Zapf Dingbats: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.
• Zapfino: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog.

There are also a number of non-Latin alphabet fonts:

• Arial Hebrew
• Geeza Pro (for Arabic)
• Arial Hebrew
• Heiti J, K, SC, and TC (for Chinese)
• Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN (for Japanese)
• Hiragino Mincho ProN (for Japanese)
• Thonburi (for Thai)

OK, can't resist. Just wanted to prove that they really do show in the iPad: