Thread: Aura HD Kindle Bookerly font problem with italics
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Old 08-24-2015, 01:34 PM   #53
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
But if we were not able to patch the advanced font control to work with side loaded fonts, Bookerly would look the same or similar.

When the weight of Bookerly is enough, it does look pretty good.
Actually, I didn't patch my firmware, I just added a line to the kobo.conf file:
readingFontWeight\Bookerly=0.15 works well on Glo HD and H20. It looked a bit too thick on the Glo, but I didn't bother trying to optimize that device.. it looks pretty bad now compared to the modern readers.
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