EPUB 3 — Sans CSS Variant
The same SAMPLE book content with a sans-serif stylesheet — CSS twin of the serif EPUB.

Rendered preview of the epub file (7 KB). Download above for the original.
Specifications
- Epub Version
- 3.0
- Css
- system-ui sans
- Chapters
- 2
Testing contract
Expected to pass- Scenario
- Exercise EPUB 3 — Sans CSS Variant in its css variant workflow. The same SAMPLE book content with a sans-serif stylesheet — CSS twin of the serif EPUB.
- Expected result
- ZIP package contains 9 members; mimetype='application/epub+zip'; mimetype compression method=0. Declared feature checks: epubVersion=3.0; css=system-ui sans; chapters=2. The declared comparison counterpart is ebook-wc-serif; preserve the stated difference instead of expecting the container bytes to match.
What is a .epub file?
EPUB is the open e-book standard, a ZIP archive containing XHTML content documents, CSS, images, and a package manifest describing reading order and metadata. It supports reflowable text that adapts to screen size and is supported by most e-readers except Kindle natively. It is the dominant format for distributable e-books.
How to use this file
Use an example EPUB to test e-book parsing, ZIP-package and manifest handling, reading-order and metadata extraction, and rendering in e-reader applications.
How to use this file for testing
“EPUB 3 — Sans CSS Variant” is a deterministic Novus Examples fixture for Conversion testing, Templates. The same content exported across many formats and linked as a group, so you can convert one and diff against the expected twin.
Documented properties for this file: EPUB · 7,163 bytes. Compare results against paired or grouped companions on this page when present (clean↔damaged, searchable↔scanned, or format twins) so scores stay reproducible across runs.
Download the file once, keep the path stable in CI or local scripts, and treat the spec table as the contract: dimensions, seeds, field lists, and roles are intentional. Corrupt or invalid samples are labelled as such, expect parsers to fail loudly rather than silently accept them.
E-book fixtures are structured archives documented down to their spine and manifest. Test readers and converters, and where a valid↔intentionally-invalid pair exists, assert graceful handling of the malformed container.
Code examples
ebook-convert sans-sample.epub out.pdf # Calibre
unzip -l sans-sample.epub # EPUB is a ZIPRelated files
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