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Slevin#7 · 06-07-2025, 07:30 PM

Well, I've tried a bunch of different fonts and then stumbled by accident above the Liberation Font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts which worked without the mentioned skewing issue for regular style.

So upon further investigation, all the other fonts I've used so far were grabbed from Google Fonts (some back at 2020). This leads me to the assumption, that somewhat with Google provided fonts is causing the problem.

Unfortunately, I would only be interested in Lora and Literata as possible custom fonts, which both are Google fonts.

I don't think that anybody is still using Calibre 3.48, but the fact alone that this issue occurs will prevent me from putting one of these fonts into my eBooks.

If anybody has more information on this I'd be really glad to know what causes this issue and what fix could be applied.

06-07-2025, 07:30 PM	#6
Slevin#7 Connoisseur Posts: 72 Karma: 10 Join Date: May 2025 Device: iPad	Well, I've tried a bunch of different fonts and then stumbled by accident above the Liberation Font https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberation_fonts https://github.com/liberationfonts/liberation-fonts which worked without the mentioned skewing issue for regular style. So upon further investigation, all the other fonts I've used so far were grabbed from Google Fonts (some back at 2020). This leads me to the assumption, that somewhat with Google provided fonts is causing the problem. Unfortunately, I would only be interested in Lora and Literata as possible custom fonts, which both are Google fonts. I don't think that anybody is still using Calibre 3.48, but the fact alone that this issue occurs will prevent me from putting one of these fonts into my eBooks. If anybody has more information on this I'd be really glad to know what causes this issue and what fix could be applied.