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Originally Posted by baronrus
It may also be worth mentioning here that if you are unhappy with any of the 7 installed fonts on the Kobo you can add any TTF or OTF that you want. That means that you can have any font you want as light or as bold as you want. You are not locked in to the ones that come with the device
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I don't have a Nook STR, but I do have a Kobo Touch and a Sony 350. Here are some sample images of both using the Sony 350's standard font and Segoi UI Bold on both. For the Kobo Touch you only need to sideload a font then select it. There is no modification necessary to the ePub or the Kobo other than adding the font in the fonts folder. For the Sony however, you have to load a font then either modify the ePub to use your custom font or use PRS+ and go through a one time modification. Either is time consuming and beyond the capability of the average eBook reader who is far below our level of techie-ness!
To sum up, it is ridiculously easy to change fonts on the Kobo Touch (and I assume the Nook STR too) but a major pain with the Sony Readers, although both or capable of allowing custom (sideloaded fonts). With the Kobo Touch sideloaded fonts are a FEATURE whereas they are only achieved on the Sony by performing a hack or two.
Hopefully these photos can help you judge the font capabilities of the Kobo Touch.
Here are the photos:
- Sony and Kobo compared with standard Sony font
- Sony and Kobo compared with both using Segoi UI Bold
- Kobo Touch with Segoi UI Bold
- Sony 350 with standard Sony font
- Sony 350 with Segoi UI Bold
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