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Editing the Bookerly font to work on Kobos (so it doesn't bold italicised words)
Hi there
I recently got a Kobo Clara BW (which I am absolutely delighted with) I wanted to put the bookerly font on it. I downloaded the font from the official amazon website here: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/a...y?tag=mr060-20 And then created a new folder called 'Fonts' in the root directory of the Kobo and copied them across But it had the common error that italicised words showed in bold. So I edited the fonts using the very helpful guidance here: https://wiki.mobileread.com/wiki/Kob...play_Correctly This now means that the fonts work perfectly. I didn't 'patch' the Kobo as some have recommended to play around with the 'weights' as I personally found the defaults to be absolutely perfect I did think it could be helpful for others to simply share the 'edited' font via a link on this website to save them having to go through the above procedure. While the procedure isn't complex it does require you to download software, and play around for a few mins etc and not everyone is comfortable with doing all that I wondered if this may be possible? Given the fonts are taken from an official Amazon published source, I assume there is no licensing issue? |
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You can download a fixed version of Bookerly here : https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh....php?p=4221036
Just put the 4 Bookerly files in your font folder. |
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One advantage to using the later Bookerly versions is that version 1.010 from the original post has 1866 glyphs while version 1.201 in the later releases has 2316 glyphs which helps prevent seeing an unknown charcter glyph while reading.
The replacement character glyph in Bookerly is the standard black diamond with a white question mark (�). Some renderers will use alternate glyphs such as the narrow rectangle, narrow rectangle with a ?, character value in hex in a box, etc. even if the font includes the replacement character glyph. |
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After reading these posts I tried the Bookerly font. It's nice but to my eyes it doesn't look as good as GNU's FreeFonts, in particular FreeSerif. FreeSerif is big (over 10,000 glyphs) and causes hesitation when adjusting font size and weight, but page turn time is acceptable. The number of glyphs could be reduced with FontForge to delete unwanted languages but I never bothered. http://www.gnu.org/software/freefont/
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