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Old 04-03-2025, 05:00 AM   #1
kisha_kodiak
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Struggling to change system UI (Avenir) font to another one with Cyrillic support

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I've tried to change the default system GUI font Avenir (header, footer, series names in My Books tab) to another one with proper Cyrillic support without success. The main reason is that the Ukrainian text looks weird, while the English one looks normal.
I've tried it with both KoboPatch (files section) and by replacing fonts manually in KoboRoot.tgz, like described here:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...54&postcount=7
AFAIK, the font names should be changed in font metadata to match the default Avenir ones. Also tested with upgraded Avenir from this post:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...36&postcount=1
Then, I've found the next thread, also without success:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4331303
I also tried it with the Ubuntu font family.

Here is my snippet from kobopatch.yaml:
files:
src/adds/fonts/Avenir.ttf: usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/Avenir.ttf
src/adds/fonts/Avenir-Bold.ttf: usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/Avenir-Bold.ttf
src/adds/fonts/Avenir-BoldItalic.ttf: usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/Avenir-BoldItalic.ttf
src/adds/fonts/Avenir-Italic.ttf: usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/Avenir-Italic.ttf

Maybe I've made an incorrect title in ttf metadata? It looks like it should be "Avenir Next, Regular" (and so on), but I'm not sure, since original fonts are encrypted, so it can't be checked.

Please help me figure out how to do it correctly, or let me know if it is still possible with this FW version at all.

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Old 04-22-2025, 08:01 AM   #2
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I finally figured this out. I should have replaced KBJ-UDKakugoPr6N-M, not Avenir, because it is used as a fallback font for Unicode characters.
Noto Sans (I believe this is the used one) was more than enough for such a replacement, so I used "KBJ-UDKakugoPr6N-M" in "Fixed Fonts.zip" from this post https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...7&postcount=11

My final snippet from kobopatch.yaml:
Code:
files: 
    src/adds/fonts/KBJ-UDKakugoPr6N-M.ttf: usr/local/Trolltech/QtEmbedded-4.6.2-arm/lib/fonts/KBJ-UDKakugoPr6N-M.ttf
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