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rtiangha · 11-09-2019, 06:09 AM

Wow, looking through the Nook fonts, it looks like Gill Sans from firmware 1.2 (Simple Touch) and Georgia from firmware 1.3 (Glowlight) might be superior to the Kobo versions as well. Just look at the file sizes (since the Kobo fonts are encrypted, it's hard to get a glyph count).

Kobo fonts:

Code:

$ ls -l
total 948
-rwxr-xr-x 1  55696 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  56544 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir-Bold.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  50560 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir-BoldItalic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  50688 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir-Italic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 135744 Sep 30 08:36 georgia.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 137744 Sep 30 08:36 georgiab.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 124368 Sep 30 08:36 georgiai.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 123504 Sep 30 08:36 georgiaz.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  56032 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  54288 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans-Bold.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  48336 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans-BoldItalic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1  49856 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans-Italic.ttf

Nook fonts:

Code:

$ ls -l
total 2264
-rwxr-xr-x 1 225696 Oct 13  2010 AvenirNext.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 208248 Oct 13  2010 AvenirNext-Bold.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 163572 Oct 13  2010 AvenirNext-BoldItalic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 162388 Oct 13  2010 AvenirNext-Italic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 289400 Oct 13  2010 Georgia.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 297976 Oct 13  2010 Georgia-Bold.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 231876 Oct 13  2010 Georgia-BoldItalic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 230100 Oct 13  2010 Georgia-Italic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 128332 Oct 13  2010 GillSans.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 125708 Oct 13  2010 GillSans-Bold.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 117036 Oct 13  2010 GillSans-BoldItalic.ttf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 116248 Oct 13  2010 GillSans-Italic.ttf

I wonder if shadow-loading the Nook's version of Georgia (or even the Windows 10 version; the Win 10 version is newer than the Nook's by about 4 years, but the Nook version has slightly more glyphs and data for one more ligature than Win 10's) would help display missing glyphs in the main GUI once you open a book as well (Don't bother trying to flash them to the system partition; they don't render in the GUI at all unless you have a version on your onboard memory and only after you load a book; so it implies that Kobo's encrypted version is the only one allowed on the system partition)?

And if we're talking shadow loading fonts, you could probably do the same for OpenDyslexic too; the newer versions have way more glyphs than what's preloaded on the Kobo as well.

11-09-2019, 06:09 AM	#89
rtiangha Evangelist Posts: 495 Karma: 356531 Join Date: Jul 2016 Location: 'burta, Canada Device: Kobo Glo HD	Wow, looking through the Nook fonts, it looks like Gill Sans from firmware 1.2 (Simple Touch) and Georgia from firmware 1.3 (Glowlight) might be superior to the Kobo versions as well. Just look at the file sizes (since the Kobo fonts are encrypted, it's hard to get a glyph count). Kobo fonts: Code: $ ls -l total 948 -rwxr-xr-x 1 55696 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 56544 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir-Bold.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 50560 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir-BoldItalic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 50688 Sep 30 08:36 Avenir-Italic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 135744 Sep 30 08:36 georgia.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 137744 Sep 30 08:36 georgiab.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 124368 Sep 30 08:36 georgiai.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 123504 Sep 30 08:36 georgiaz.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 56032 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 54288 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans-Bold.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 48336 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans-BoldItalic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 49856 Sep 30 08:36 GillSans-Italic.ttf Nook fonts: Code: $ ls -l total 2264 -rwxr-xr-x 1 225696 Oct 13 2010 AvenirNext.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 208248 Oct 13 2010 AvenirNext-Bold.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 163572 Oct 13 2010 AvenirNext-BoldItalic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 162388 Oct 13 2010 AvenirNext-Italic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 289400 Oct 13 2010 Georgia.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 297976 Oct 13 2010 Georgia-Bold.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 231876 Oct 13 2010 Georgia-BoldItalic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 230100 Oct 13 2010 Georgia-Italic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 128332 Oct 13 2010 GillSans.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 125708 Oct 13 2010 GillSans-Bold.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 117036 Oct 13 2010 GillSans-BoldItalic.ttf -rwxr-xr-x 1 116248 Oct 13 2010 GillSans-Italic.ttf I wonder if shadow-loading the Nook's version of Georgia (or even the Windows 10 version; the Win 10 version is newer than the Nook's by about 4 years, but the Nook version has slightly more glyphs and data for one more ligature than Win 10's) would help display missing glyphs in the main GUI once you open a book as well (Don't bother trying to flash them to the system partition; they don't render in the GUI at all unless you have a version on your onboard memory and only after you load a book; so it implies that Kobo's encrypted version is the only one allowed on the system partition)? And if we're talking shadow loading fonts, you could probably do the same for OpenDyslexic too; the newer versions have way more glyphs than what's preloaded on the Kobo as well. Last edited by rtiangha; 11-09-2019 at 06:15 AM.