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Originally Posted by graycyn
I'm guessing Sony took some shortcuts and didn't include all the variants for the other fonts, which of course is annoying. On my Nook WiFi, you can, for instance, only get boldface on the Light Classic font, but not on Amasis.
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Well this is the really strange thing. I think they HAVE included the variants, or at least the italic variant. There are occasions when italics ARE retained with the 3 serifs Amasis etc. And when they are retained they are "proper" italics not the unsatisfactory regular-font-slanted-a-bit. I don't know about the Bold variants as I'm not sure I can tell the difference between 'real bold and/or bolditalic' and 'regular/italic-font-thickened-a-bit'.
Amasis etc also seem to have more glyphs. There are some accented chars which display in the 6 special fonts which don't display when using 'Original'.
So the choice, so far, seems to be:
Original - Italics not very pretty. Text rendered correctly unless you happen to read in a non-latin language.
6 specials - Prettier, but a lottery with bold/italic. May be better for non-latin readers.
Embed your own - Everything displayed correctly as long as you choose the right fonts for your language.
If anyone comes up with some bright ideas I'd love to hear them.