albert says:
At the moment the emails are in plain text. That means the font is determined by your email client. Most mail clients by default use a sans-serif typeface, but you can usually change that. We plan to roll out HTML email which will allow some control over the typeface.

wastrel says:
Thanks. Currently, I'm using the RSS method to receive installments, and I use Google Reader, which doesn't allow you to set any font attributes for content [yet]; I'll be checking other feed readers to see if any of them will allow it. I expect to try the email approach, too, for some other book. I'm new here, so I'll be playing around with the various methods available, though, naturally, I'll want to keep it as simple as possible. I really just wanted to bring up the topic here to see where you might be headed regarding text display and throw in my two cents. So, thanks again. And thanks for Dailylit--great idea.

albert says:
For RSS we could probably offer a font change option sooner. We'll look into it.

wastrel says:
I spent a few minutes playing around with Stylish (in Firefox) and created a script which changes the font (and size) for rendering the content in Google Reader. It's set to Bookman Old Style @110% right now, but I'll play around with some other fonts to see which one(s) look best. It changes the font for all Reader content, which _ain't_ necessarily a bad thing.

Since it's small, I'll put it here in case someone else wants to try it (not all PC's have Bookman, but most have Georgia, which also looks pretty good for reading):

@-moz-document url-prefix(http://www.google.com/reader),
url-prefix(https://www.google.com/reader) {

#entries .entry-body {
font-size: 110% !important;
background: #fff !important;
font-family: bookman old style !important;
}

}

wastrel says:
Well, I've [sort of] finished playing around with the script, and I've posted it to the Userstyles site in case anyone wants to use it. (As before, it requires Firefox, plus, having the Stylish extension makes it easier to implement). The URL is http://userstyles.org/styles/3004. The essential differences from the code in my previous post: uses the Georgia typeface, 120% larger, off-white background, and uses almost the entire width of the entry for text. I actually find I like this layout/style for all of my feeds, not just the DailyLit ones.