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stewacide · 12-17-2012, 10:57 PM

Does anyone know if there's any point to adding any other than the -Regular -Bold -Italic and -BoldItalic versions of fonts to the Kobo? Will other weights be used under any circumstance?

Edit -- p.s. I got Avenir working with Italics by side-loading it and making sure the file name matched the font name exactly, including spaces. When I first tried it the name wasn't an exact match and I got the same result as with the bundled Avenir: bold in place of italics. Could this long-standing bug be as simple as Kobo not having their internal fonts named properly?

12-17-2012, 10:57 PM	#12
stewacide Groupie Posts: 197 Karma: 1086780 Join Date: Jul 2012 Device: Kobo H2O Ed. 2, Glo HD, Glo, Touch, Clara HD	Does anyone know if there's any point to adding any other than the -Regular -Bold -Italic and -BoldItalic versions of fonts to the Kobo? Will other weights be used under any circumstance? Edit -- p.s. I got Avenir working with Italics by side-loading it and making sure the file name matched the font name exactly, including spaces. When I first tried it the name wasn't an exact match and I got the same result as with the bundled Avenir: bold in place of italics. Could this long-standing bug be as simple as Kobo not having their internal fonts named properly? Last edited by stewacide; 12-17-2012 at 11:16 PM.