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Originally Posted by NiLuJe
IIRC, we've covered the subject somewhat in a few possibly-completely-unrelated PRs in CRe ^^. Look for stuff from @poire-z and me, at least.
The gist of it being: because reasons. (I think?  ). |
Good technical reasons rather than purely philosophical I hope, lol? :P
I was rather surprised that on my Kobo device, it'd pull its default of Georgia/Avenir Next for generic serif/sans serif when set to Publisher's Default, but couldn't pull a monospace one for kepubs (of course, the whole monospace thing being a known point of contention on Kobo at the moment, lol). I was hoping KOReader could do all three, at least.
I just figured that if the monospace font was set somewhere, there's no reason why any of the other generic font families couldn't be set either, (certainly for serif and sans-serif since some already ship in the stock distribution, although I'm sure there are some nice Open SIL fonts out there that could serve as generic fallbacks for cursive and fantasy too; Calibre on my Windows machine seems to pull Comic Sans and Impact for those respectively, which I found funny). I do understand the need for a single fallback font for when absolutely all else fails, though (one of the Notos being a good choice).