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jackie_w · 12-13-2019, 11:07 AM

@snarkophilus,

Welcome to the world of font wrangling on Kobos.

I seem to remember both of us were active on similar threads in the Sony days.

I'm a bit lost in the maze of your findings so far but here are a couple of old links which might have relevant info now or in the future.

Getting monospace to work in kepubs
Even if you're reading standard epubs rather than kepubs you may still be butting heads with the fact that the default epub override CSS inside the firmware contains:
Code:
```
body, p { font-family: -ua-default !important; }
```
which has the effect of ignoring any font-family styles set at the <p> tag level, in favour of your font-of-choice. For those who want it, there's a kobopatch ('Un-force font-family override p tags (std epubs)' to replace the body, p with a simple body.
The general bold/italic problem with sideloaded fonts on Kobo, as already mentioned by @rtiangha. Posts #2 and #9 in this thread have detailed instructions on fixing the panose issue.

12-13-2019, 11:07 AM	#47
jackie_w Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,252 Karma: 16544692 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: UK Device: ClaraHD, Forma, Libra2, Clara2E, LibraCol, PBTouchHD3	@snarkophilus, Welcome to the world of font wrangling on Kobos. I seem to remember both of us were active on similar threads in the Sony days. I'm a bit lost in the maze of your findings so far but here are a couple of old links which might have relevant info now or in the future. Getting monospace to work in kepubs Even if you're reading standard epubs rather than kepubs you may still be butting heads with the fact that the default epub override CSS inside the firmware contains: Code: body, p { font-family: -ua-default !important; } which has the effect of ignoring any font-family styles set at the <p> tag level, in favour of your font-of-choice. For those who want it, there's a kobopatch ('Un-force font-family override p tags (std epubs)' to replace the body, p with a simple body. The general bold/italic problem with sideloaded fonts on Kobo, as already mentioned by @rtiangha. Posts #2 and #9 in this thread have detailed instructions on fixing the panose issue.