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Old 04-11-2015, 08:30 AM   #243
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Originally Posted by Anak View Post
Noticed it too. Kindle font Only Bold and Bold Italic.

Have you tried these files? They work fine on my Kobo Glo. Including TypeGenius (if the firmware is properly patched) if TTF flavour is used.
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...&postcount=148

These fonts are not based on the Kindle fonts as they had quite a few errors. Fixing (renaming the font name and style internally) didn't really work. Instead of investigating what caused these issues I chose to generate the font myself using the font supplied with Windows and made all fonts a little bolder (+9) to mimic the Kindle fonts which were a bit bolder.

Generating the fonts (ttf and otf) gave some error messages. The Windows had only 'kerning' issues. The Kindle font had kerning and language issues. Note I didn't fix the kerning errors.

Code:
[FATAL] <Constantia> GPOS feature 'kern' causes overflow of offset to a subtable (0x18940)

[WARNING] <Constantia-Bold> [internal] Feature block seen before any language system statement.  You should place languagesystem statements before any feature definition [E:/Documents/FontLab/Studio 5/fontlab.fea 214]
[FATAL] <Constantia-Bold> GPOS feature 'kern' causes overflow of offset to a subtable (0x22e1e)
I took the OTF fonts and resaved them as TTF. Then I added hinting to the TTF version and loaded them on my H2O. I did not get the bold versions when I should have gotten the regular versions. Also, with the TTF, I can use the advanced font control to up the weight a little.

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