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Originally Posted by pickyaxe
One thing I really dislike about the Kobo interface is the italic text everywhere. Talk about anachronistic. Is there any way to get rid of all those italics in the interface? A patch for that would be great.
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I made a patch for firmware 3.12.1 to change every instance of "font-style: italic;" to "font-style: normal;", as a way of working out how to change certain parts of the UI, but there were still some italics that didn't change, so it seems that some styles are not set using CSS and those will be much harder to change.
As well as using italics to indicate things that can be tapped, on the frontlit devices book titles are also displayed in italics. That is a common convention when writing book titles.
There is a problem with this though, as the system fonts -- Georgia at least -- seem to lack italic versions of some glyphs used in some languages such as Arabic. So book titles in Arabic and probably other languages will not display correctly when italics are used. I think this is something Kobo need to address, it could be done by substituting from a regular font if an italic glyph is not available.