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Originally Posted by xiaoguixp
Could you please elaborate on the first point?
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Yes. If you have a font (.ttf or .otf) then the relevant information about its name and style (bold, regular, etc) are inside the file. You don't actually see the name of the font or the filename when you go to the aA menu. It shows the font-family (another metadata inside the file). The Kindle is smart enough to read each and every metadata and internally build a structure that says: use xyz.ttf for Arial in regular, use xyzz.ttf for Arial in italics (incase you decided to name them that way). That is for when using USE_ALT_FONTS, when you try to patch the built-in fonts, it needs to be done exactly as the instructions say.
Beware: some fonts do not have their metadata assigned correctly. If you "borrow" fonts from other devices or applications, their regular, bold, italic, bold-italic might not be linked together. So use those at your own risk when throwing them in the fonts folder.