Cant install fonts Clara BW

[kangaro]

Greetings,

I have a problem installing fonts on my new Kobo Clara BW. Previously, on my Kobo Glo HD, I had the Bookerly font (I think I downloaded the one from here in the forums). As far as I remember, it wasn't complicated at all, but now on my new Kobo, I can't get it to detect the fonts no matter what I try. From what I've read, I should put the font family inside the "fonts" folder. I tried copying them directly to the root and also creating a "bookerly" folder, but when I open the font list on the Kobo, they simply don't appear. I tried downloading several fonts, and it doesn't detect any of them—only the ones that come pre-installed show up.

What am I doing wrong? Or what could I be missing?

Thank you very much for your help.

[JSWolf]

Originally Posted by kangaro

Greetings,

I have a problem installing fonts on my new Kobo Clara BW. Previously, on my Kobo Glo HD, I had the Bookerly font (I think I downloaded the one from here in the forums). As far as I remember, it wasn't complicated at all, but now on my new Kobo, I can't get it to detect the fonts no matter what I try. From what I've read, I should put the font family inside the "fonts" folder. I tried copying them directly to the root and also creating a "bookerly" folder, but when I open the font list on the Kobo, they simply don't appear. I tried downloading several fonts, and it doesn't detect any of them—only the ones that come pre-installed show up.

What am I doing wrong? Or what could I be missing?

Thank you very much for your help.

Go to https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=184056 and download the ChareInk7SP ZIP file. Unzip the contents and you'll see the correct naming convention for fonts. Put them in the fonts directory of your Kobo. It should be off of the root directory. Then reboot and try ChareInk7SP. See if it works.

As for Bookerly, It has a problem in the metadata that need to be fixed if you read KePub format. I don't recall which font needs to be fixed.

[DNSB]

To simplify Jon's answer, you need to have a directory in the root of your Kobo's exposed storage called fonts (and yes, it is case sensitive). Inside that directory, you will place the font files. For Bookerly, the fontfile names would be:

Regular      Bookerly-Regular.ttf     Bookerly.ttf
Italic       Bookerly-Italic.ttf      Bookerlyi.ttf
Bold         Bookerly-Bold.ttf        Bookerlyb.ttf
Bold-Italic  Bookerly-BoldItalic.ttf  Bookerlyz.ttf

While Kobo allows both naming conventions, I prefer the more verbose version in the first column.

As for the Panose issue with the Bookerly font, I've attached two images of the old changes to the Panose weight from medium to book. As near as I can tell, with the current version of Bookerly extracted from recent Kindle firmware, the font file names are correct and the Panose weight does not seem to make any difference. I've attached images of my test ePub with Bookerly as the font without changes to the Panose weight (first image is a kepub, second image is an epub).