diff --git a/res/css/views/elements/_RichText.scss b/res/css/views/elements/_RichText.scss
index 0847aa7c9b..cf2c066589 100644
--- a/res/css/views/elements/_RichText.scss
+++ b/res/css/views/elements/_RichText.scss
@@ -79,11 +79,15 @@
 
 .mx_Markdown_ITALIC {
     font-style: italic;
+/*
+    // interestingly, *not* using the explicit italic font
+    // variant seems yield better results.
 
     // compensate for Nunito italics being terrible
     // https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1726
     transform: skewX(-14deg);
     display: inline-block;
+*/
 }
 
 .mx_Markdown_CODE {
diff --git a/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss b/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss
index ee9971887e..c920d6e390 100644
--- a/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss
+++ b/res/css/views/rooms/_EventTile.scss
@@ -453,12 +453,17 @@ limitations under the License.
     display: inline ! important;
 }
 
+/*
+// actually, removing the Italic TTF provides
+// better results seemingly
+
 // compensate for Nunito italics being terrible
 // https://github.com/google/fonts/issues/1726
 .mx_EventTile_content .markdown-body em {
     transform: skewX(-14deg);
     display: inline-block;
 }
+*/
 
 /* end of overrides */
 
diff --git a/res/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-Bold.ttf b/res/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-Bold.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c70de76bbd
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diff --git a/res/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-Regular.ttf b/res/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-Regular.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..064e805431
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diff --git a/res/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-SemiBold.ttf b/res/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-SemiBold.ttf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a84b3b35a6
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diff --git a/res/themes/dharma/css/_fonts.scss b/res/themes/dharma/css/_fonts.scss
index 93fa9afbfa..ac15847e44 100644
--- a/res/themes/dharma/css/_fonts.scss
+++ b/res/themes/dharma/css/_fonts.scss
@@ -1,47 +1,36 @@
 /*
  * Nunito.
  * Includes extended Latin and Vietnamese character sets
- * Current URLs are v9, derived from the contents of
+ * Current URLs are taken from
+ * https://github.com/alexeiva/NunitoFont/releases/tag/v3.500
+ * ...in order to include cyrillic.
+ *
+ * Previously, they were
  * https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Nunito:400,400i,600,600i,700,700i&subset=latin-ext,vietnamese
+ *
+ * We explicitly do not include Nunito's italic variants, as they are not italic enough
+ * and it's better to rely on the browser's built-in obliquing behaviour.
  */
 
 /* the 'src' links are relative to the bundle.css, which is in a subdirectory.
  */
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Nunito';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 400;
-  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/XRXX3I6Li01BKofIMNaDRss.ttf') format('truetype');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Nunito';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 600;
-  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/XRXQ3I6Li01BKofIMN5cYtvKUTo.ttf') format('truetype');
-}
-@font-face {
-  font-family: 'Nunito';
-  font-style: italic;
-  font-weight: 700;
-  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/XRXQ3I6Li01BKofIMN44Y9vKUTo.ttf') format('truetype');
-}
 @font-face {
   font-family: 'Nunito';
   font-style: normal;
   font-weight: 400;
-  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/XRXV3I6Li01BKofINeaE.ttf') format('truetype');
+  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-Regular.ttf') format('truetype');
 }
 @font-face {
   font-family: 'Nunito';
   font-style: normal;
   font-weight: 600;
-  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/XRXW3I6Li01BKofA6sKUYevN.ttf') format('truetype');
+  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-SemiBold.ttf') format('truetype');
 }
 @font-face {
   font-family: 'Nunito';
   font-style: normal;
   font-weight: 700;
-  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/XRXW3I6Li01BKofAjsOUYevN.ttf') format('truetype');
+  src: url('$(res)/fonts/Nunito/Nunito-Bold.ttf') format('truetype');
 }
 
 /*