Thread: Kobo's fallback fonts
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Old 05-24-2024, 05:08 PM   #10
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Ah thank you all!

I'm shocked that this doesn't work out of the box. I guess Kobo is trying to save on licensing fees and assumes anyone serious will embed the font instead.

If "Courier" is the only acceptable name for a monospace font I think I will just go the embedding route as I don't like Courier and I'm not crazy about hacking up a font to give it the "wrong" name.

Thanks for the help.
As mentioned, the name can be anything as long as it is no more than 7 characters. The KoboPatch allows you to change Courier but is limited by only having 7 characters available.

Courier is not my favourite font but among the other monospaced fonts I've tried, Dark Courier, Courier New, Courier Prime, IBM Plex Mono and Source Code Pro are nothing to write home about either. Since I only use them for computer output, it's not a big deal to me. Some of them come in a semi-bold or font weight 500 variant which I prefer. I also prefer the Courier variants due to my preference for serif fonts but for computer output either works well.
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