Custom Fonts On Kindle Oasis

jabomano · 01-23-2019, 06:04 PM

Can I load different styles of the same font on my Oasis? Examples would be bold, italic, bold italic, medium, medium italic regular, semi bold, semi bold italic and so on of the same font. I've tried but can only upload 1 variety of a font. I even tried changing the name slightly.

Thanks.

NullNix · 01-24-2019, 03:22 PM

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Originally Posted by jabomano

Can I load different styles of the same font on my Oasis? Examples would be bold, italic, bold italic, medium, medium italic regular, semi bold, semi bold italic and so on of the same font. I've tried but can only upload 1 variety of a font. I even tried changing the name slightly.

Thanks.

You can: just stick them all in the custom fonts directory and it should just work. (What fonts have you tried?)

Note that you'll only see one font in the font chooser: italic etc will be used as appropriate. i.e. you can't get a book to be typeset entirely in italics without editing the font to make the italic version appear to be a non-italic one, but you can upload italic and non-italic variants and the italic will be used as appropriate. The system will synthesise italic and bold if need be, but the synthesised versions usually look quite a lot worse than the real thing.

tomsem · 01-24-2019, 09:18 PM

I think there is some metadata in the font files that groups them into a ‘family’, not just the file name. If the metadata is not right then you may see separate fonts instead. I remember running into this with some fonts I was playing with. There might be some way to fix it, but I just removed the ones that didn’t work as I expected.

At minimum you need Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic. You can have others, but I don’t know if they will ever get used.

jabomano · 01-25-2019, 11:30 PM

I can only get 1 font type to work at a time and it's either regular or bold. I can't load regular and bold at the same time and get them to work separately

BookCat · 01-26-2019, 11:35 AM

Usually you need the different font types in order to show italics, for example, where the author has written that part of a book in italics. The same for other aspects, such as bold titles etc. If there isn't a bold version of the font in the font file, the boldness won't render.

jabomano · 01-26-2019, 07:09 PM

Thanks to everyone.

Sirtel · 01-26-2019, 07:32 PM

What you can do, if a font seems a bit too thin, is to use medium instead of regular. The keyword is "instead". Don't upload both the regular and the medium, then only the regular will get used. But if you upload the medium and not the regular, you should get the medium type for ordinary text. The same goes for medium italic.

jabomano · 02-01-2019, 08:39 AM

I'll do that Sirtel. Thanks.

HLS · 02-01-2019, 06:01 PM

yep just drop into font folder when kindle is connected to a pc

01-23-2019, 06:04 PM	#1
jabomano Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis	Custom Fonts On Kindle Oasis Can I load different styles of the same font on my Oasis? Examples would be bold, italic, bold italic, medium, medium italic regular, semi bold, semi bold italic and so on of the same font. I've tried but can only upload 1 variety of a font. I even tried changing the name slightly. Thanks.

01-24-2019, 09:18 PM	#3
tomsem Grand Sorcerer Posts: 6,477 Karma: 26425959 Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: USA Device: iPhone 15PM, Kindle Scribe, iPad mini 6, PocketBook InkPad Color 3	I think there is some metadata in the font files that groups them into a ‘family’, not just the file name. If the metadata is not right then you may see separate fonts instead. I remember running into this with some fonts I was playing with. There might be some way to fix it, but I just removed the ones that didn’t work as I expected. At minimum you need Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic. You can have others, but I don’t know if they will ever get used. Last edited by tomsem; 01-24-2019 at 09:21 PM.

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jabomano Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis	I can only get 1 font type to work at a time and it's either regular or bold. I can't load regular and bold at the same time and get them to work separately

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BookCat C L J Posts: 2,912 Karma: 21115458 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham UK Device: Sony e-reader 505, Kindle PW2, Kindle PW3, Kobo Libra2	Usually you need the different font types in order to show italics, for example, where the author has written that part of a book in italics. The same for other aspects, such as bold titles etc. If there isn't a bold version of the font in the font file, the boldness won't render.

01-26-2019, 07:09 PM	#6
jabomano Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis	Thanks to everyone.

01-26-2019, 07:32 PM	#7
Sirtel Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,122 Karma: 224756896 Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Estonia Device: Kobo Sage & Libra 2	What you can do, if a font seems a bit too thin, is to use medium instead of regular. The keyword is "instead". Don't upload both the regular and the medium, then only the regular will get used. But if you upload the medium and not the regular, you should get the medium type for ordinary text. The same goes for medium italic.

02-01-2019, 08:39 AM	#8
jabomano Member Posts: 14 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2019 Device: Kindle Oasis	I'll do that Sirtel. Thanks.

02-01-2019, 06:01 PM	#9
HLS Wizard Posts: 2,027 Karma: 15107670 Join Date: May 2017 Device: Sage, Scribe, Boox Note 2 Plus, iPad Pros and Samsungs S6,S7,S8	yep just drop into font folder when kindle is connected to a pc

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