Libra 2 Using font crashes Libra2

[slantybard]

I have several user fonts that run without any issues on my Libra2. I have tried to install (and re-install) a free to use font, Atkinson-Hyperlegible. I have the usual 4 TTF files - regular, italic, bold, bolditalic and have placed them in the correct fonts folder on my L2. I have not modified the fonts in any way to mess up the files.

Whenever I have these fonts installed on my L2, the device hangs, becomes unresponsice, and eventually reboots whenever I choose the font menu. Once these font files are deleted, the device goes back to functioning as normal. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

[Deobulakenyo]

Originally Posted by slantybard

I have several user fonts that run without any issues on my Libra2. I have tried to install (and re-install) a free to use font, Atkinson-Hyperlegible. I have the usual 4 TTF files - regular, italic, bold, bolditalic and have placed them in the correct fonts folder on my L2. I have not modified the fonts in any way to mess up the files.

Whenever I have these fonts installed on my L2, the device hangs, becomes unresponsice, and eventually reboots whenever I choose the font menu. Once these font files are deleted, the device goes back to functioning as normal. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

I tested and tried on my Libra 2, the font works fine on my device.

Downloaded it from google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/At...tandard-styles

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by slantybard

I have several user fonts that run without any issues on my Libra2. I have tried to install (and re-install) a free to use font, Atkinson-Hyperlegible. I have the usual 4 TTF files - regular, italic, bold, bolditalic and have placed them in the correct fonts folder on my L2. I have not modified the fonts in any way to mess up the files.

Whenever I have these fonts installed on my L2, the device hangs, becomes unresponsice, and eventually reboots whenever I choose the font menu. Once these font files are deleted, the device goes back to functioning as normal. I was wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

I tested the OTF and TTF version on my Sage and it crashed. When I ran FontValidator on the files, it couldn't run multiple tests due to detected errors.

[Deobulakenyo]

Originally Posted by DNSB

I tested the OTF and TTF version on my Sage and it crashed. When I ran FontValidator on the files, it couldn't run multiple tests due to detected errors.

The same font files I used from google fonts?

[slantybard]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

I tested and tried on my Libra 2, the font works fine on my device.

Downloaded it from google fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/At...tandard-styles

Interesting, the naming of those font files is different from the official ones I found here:

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

I will try the google version.

[Pajamaman]

I suspect a custom font was causing crashes.

[DNSB]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

The same font files I used from google fonts?

No, I downloaded the .zip file from the Braille Institute. Oddly, the files in that archive are dated from 2020-Apr-27/v1.002 while the files from Google are dated 2021-Apr-30/v1.006 which seems a bit odd. The Google fonts naming is correct while the Braille Institute files had to be renamed.

I was not impressed with the font for two reasons. One being that my reading preference is serif fonts and the other being that Atkinson Hyperlegible (according to FontForge) has 342 Unicode glyphs while CharisSIL 6 has 2936 Unicode glyphs so a poor selection of glyphs

[slantybard]

The google version works OK on the L2.

I also prefer serif fonts and my favourite is caecilia/charissil/chareink but I had heard good things about atkinson hyperlegible that I was interested in seeing it in action.

[Deobulakenyo]

Does anyone have a complete set of Palatino?

[PeterT]

You might find the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino of interest, especially the section "Free and open-source versions and derivatives" which mentions URW Palladio L, FPL Neu* and Domitian as options.

See https://fontesk.com/palladio-typeface/ https://fontesk.com/domitian-typeface/



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[Deobulakenyo]

Originally Posted by PeterT

You might find the wiki page https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino of interest, especially the section "Free and open-source versions and derivatives" which mentions URW Palladio L, FPL Neu* and Domitian as options.

See https://fontesk.com/palladio-typeface/ https://fontesk.com/domitian-typeface/



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Thank you very much

[Deobulakenyo]

I downloaded and used the Domitian font from above link, and used the four types (Domitian-Roman, Domitian-Bold, Domitian Italic and Domitian-Bold-Italic). These are .otf fonts.

Why is it that bold words in the book i am reading does not show bold using the said font when the bold variant is present alongside other fonts. The same with Palladio fonts in .ttf format.


When i use Bookerly, bold texts are shown no problem.

I really like the palatino/Domitian type but bold, italics, etc are important for me.

Is there a way to fix this?

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

I downloaded and used the Domitian font from above link, and used the four types (Domitian-Roman, Domitian-Bold, Domitian Italic and Domitian-Bold-Italic). These are .otf fonts.

Why is it that bold words in the book i am reading does not show bold using the said font when the bold variant is present alongside other fonts. The same with Palladio fonts in .ttf format.


When i use Bookerly, bold texts are shown no problem.

I really like the palatino/Domitian type but bold, italics, etc are important for me.

Is there a way to fix this?

Looking at the bolditalic in FontForge it appears to have the incorrect weight, Demi instead of Book as explained by jackie_w in an older thread here (see post #9):

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...81#post3608181

However, I think converting first to .ttf may be necessary as I received an error when editing the .otf. I'm a mere novice but have successfully edited weights of .ttf fonts using jackie_w's instructions.

[Deobulakenyo]

Originally Posted by Skydog

Looking at the bolditalic in FontForge it appears to have the incorrect weight, Demi instead of Book as explained by jackie_w in an older thread here (see post #9):

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...81#post3608181

However, I think converting first to .ttf may be necessary as I received an error when editing the .otf. I'm a mere novice but have successfully edited weights of .ttf fonts using jackie_w's instructions.

I looked at the problem more closely and found out that:

1. The texts are really in "italics" only.
2. Other fonts (Kobo default and sideloaded ones display the texts properly as italics (even in Calibre)
3. Bookerly is the one font displaying it incorrectly.

My problem now is i want to have the other fonts display it incorrectly as Bookerly as I like bold italics for foreign words like in the example

[Skydog]

Originally Posted by Deobulakenyo

I looked at the problem more closely and found out that:

1. The texts are really in "italics" only.
2. Other fonts (Kobo default and sideloaded ones display the texts properly as italics (even in Calibre)
3. Bookerly is the one font displaying it incorrectly.

My problem now is i want to have the other fonts display it incorrectly as Bookerly as I like bold italics for foreign words like in the example

Sorry, I can't be of any help. (My version of Bookerly displays properly)