Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Bookerly: New Kindle Font, “optimized for e-reading” – lesen.net

20/01/2015 John Main eBook News

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Still secretly patches Amazon a new font to his readers. Bookerly is “optimized for e-reading” his and expands the current font selection. Reading is done.



The new Kindle font seems to be gradually rolled out. It started with the Fire tablet from Amazon, where Bookerly is available for a few days. Business journalist Adam Tinworth pointed out in his blog on the new font on Saturday. He speculates Bookerly is mainly a response to the increasing resolutions of reading devices, first and foremost from the Kindle Voyage.

In English Forums Bookerly has been discussed for a few days. In Kboards draw parallels to Foristen also used by Caecilia font Amazon; Bookerly but is still a bit more defined. Here, as at MobileRead there has been only praise from the audience for the new font, virtually all “users of the first hour” seem to have changed their default font on Bookerly.

 Bookerly and Caecilia in comparison. Screenshots of Dream Writer, Mobile Read

Bookerly and Caecilia in comparison. Screenshots of Dream Writer MobileRead

We are not a font specialists from layman makes Bookerly but an excellent impression. The font certainly has the potential to become the most used font in the Kindle cosmos and thus to the most popular e-reading-writing at all.

In general, e-reading providers may like to do a lot more to worry about typography , Currently, we read with high-end devices decades-old fonts (Caecilia: 1991)., Which were developed to a large extent still printed paper and resolutions and formats of readers are seldom meet

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The article “Bookerly: New Kindle Font,” optimized for e-reading “” on January 20, 2015 (Tuesday ) at 17:03 clock written by John Main. John Main ( Xing / Twitter ) is editor and publisher of lesen.net

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