[anamardoll]

I've kind of been pinging all over the Mobile Read forum because I'm not sure where this topic goes... but I've been having a lot of issues with getting the font perfect on my PRS-950. Here's the saga so far:

1. I've successfully loaded PRS+ on my reader. (Thank you, PRS+ team!)

2. I've figured out how to load fonts and create the custom CSS files.

3. I've used the Calibre modify-epub plugin to remove embedded fonts from my epub books.

Seems like the hard stuf is over and now I just need to find a font that I like. Problem is, all the fonts I like look weird on the Sony -- they look really thick and bold. I figured this was just an artifact of the reader, until I hit on the bright idea to load Charis -- the font that all my font-embedded epubs were using -- to the reader.

Sure enough, loading Charis onto the reader and using it gives me a really thick, bolded version of Charis -- very different from the way the font-embedded epubs used to look when they were using embedded Charis.

At this point, it would seem that the culprit is my user-defined CSS that I'm creating and using with PRS+. I do not speak CSS, so it wouldn't surprise me. All I know is that the CSS I'm using does work in the sense that it invokes the correct font, but it makes the font bold and thick and unpleasant. Can anyone -- PRS+ expert, font changing guru, CSS programmer -- tell me what I'm doing wrong, please?

Th CSS shell I have now is this:

@font-face {
font-family: "Charis";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Charis-Regular.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: "Charis";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: normal;
src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Charis-Bold.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: "Charis";
font-weight: normal;
font-style: italic;
src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Charis-Italic.ttf);
}

@font-face {
font-family: "Charis";
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
src: url(res:///Data/fonts/Charis-BoldItalic.ttf);
}

body {
font-family: "Charis", serif;
}

.calibre {
font-family: "Charis", serif;
}

The font-embedded epubs had quite a few more lines including some font-size: 1em stuff. I tried loading THAT to the CSS, but nothing seemed to change. I may have been doin' it rong.

Code snippet from embedded epub that I'm using for comparison purposes:

.calibre {
    background-color: #FFF;
    display: block;
    font-family: "Charis";
    font-size: 1em;
    line-height: 1.2;
    margin-bottom: 0;
    margin-left: 5pt;
    margin-right: 5pt;
    margin-top: 0;
    padding-left: 0;
    padding-right: 0;
    text-align: center
    }

Thank you in advance, and sorry for pinging all over the board.