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Originally Posted by davidfor
The problem is that they can't trust the sideloaded fonts. If there is a problem with the font and things go wrong, it affects the user experience and Kobo will be blamed.
Is it a cop-out? Probably. But, if they have tested a few fonts and found problems with them, then they can justify it.
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Yes, but the irony is that, in my experience (quite a lot) with custom fonts, the most frequent problem is when at least one of italic, bold or bolditalic wrongly displays as Regular, so far I've been able to fix these by tweaking the internal font name. Kobo have not disallowed custom fonts completely (thank goodness) just because not all of them are guaranteed to work. In addition, some custom fonts which have worked perfectly for months, exhibit missing bold and/or italic after a firmware upgrade. v3.5/3.8 broke a couple of mine which I had fixed but they broke again with v3.11 (fixed again). But this is not limited to custom fonts as I see Kobo managed to break their own Avenir system font in 3.11
On the other hand I don't think I've had any problem (as yet) with custom fonts 'thickening badly'. I
have had the occasional custom otf font which wouldn't thicken at all. Converting to ttf has always (so far) fixed this particular problem.
I know there's nothing we can do about their bizarre decision but IMO I think TypeGenius is something they should be bragging about, not hiding.