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Font Tweaking for E Ink

This post is part of a collection of posts related to font tweaking for eBook readers, in particular Kobo devices.

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5
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Aug 24, 2025
  1. 01
    Patching Fonts for my Kobo But because I'm such a typography nerd, I wanted the optimal font with an optimal font rendering on my Kobo. This led me down a peculiar rabbit hole...
    Published Apr 2, 2024
  2. 02
    Tweaking EB Garamond How I forged a new EB Garamond variant for my own e-reading pleasure.
    Published Dec 20, 2024
  3. 03
    Electronic Reading Adventures Welcome to part 2 of my Kobo font patching story. I've got a new collection of fonts, and some insights into Kobo book rendering.
    Published Mar 10, 2025
  4. 04
    Down the Kobo Font Kerning Rabbit Hole We've reached an interesting inflection point where we can improve some fonts even more.
    Published Aug 17, 2025
  5. 05
    Automating Font Tweaking with Python I was lazy, so I spent twelve hours writing a Python script to trivialize font conversion for Kobo devices. Yup, here we go again!
    Published Aug 24, 2025