New Kindle font “Bookerly” soon on eReaders? – ALLESebook.de

Amazon was not only always highlighted in the past particularly proud of the hardware of your own Kindle eBook reader, but also has the special adaptation of the scriptures. Thus, the individual fonts be all especially optimized to improve the reading experience even further.

In fact, Amazon offers with pre-installed fonts a thoroughly enjoyable readability of the E -ink displays, whatever it is sometimes that the fonts are comparatively thick. This is probably the fact indebted that the contrast of a commercial e-paper screen (even with modern technology) is simply lower than in tablet or on paper (natural lighting dependent). In addition, it produces a thicker font, especially on a display with lower pixel density, better contrast, since the gray-level interpolation pixel not thin out the individual letters when rendering noticeably.

Now, the pixel density of the various devices in the last two years, but significantly increased so that the edge smoothness was better and the strikingly thick Kindle fonts basically are no longer really necessary – at least not with the Fire tablet. This is exactly where Amazon has now begun to introduce a new font. The new font is named “ Bookerly ” and is available on various devices Fire now. Kindle App and PC users currently have to just do without it as the eBook Reader client.

Bookerly features compared to the previous main font Caecilia by a more refined drawing. The serifs are flat, rounded and / or beveled, the thickness is slightly less letters, as is the spacing between words. Also, the letter spacing is minimal shrunk.

Differences between Bookerly (left) and Caecilia (right ). Sources available: Mobile Read

Although there is currently the font only for the Fire tablet is basically reasonable to expect that the dedicated Readers will be added soon to the new font. Apart from the (as described) refined typeface, but you should not expect miracles it is. At least not in terms of edge sharpness, because that does not change. TrueType and OpenType fonts are vectorized and thus infinitely scalable without loss of quality, which Caecilia and Bookerly (and other writings) applies equally. The font sharpness thus depends on the pixel density from or interpolation, not on the font itself.

In addition also happens that the edge sharpness at the illuminated and with capacitive Touchscreen provided eBook reader is already reduced by the plastic films and would notice such improvements barely (or not).

In any case illustrates the introduction of a new font that Amazon fortunately continue working to improve the graphics of what the hope a little that nourishes the shipping giant sometime maybe even the long-hoped-for hyphenation introduces the going especially in German texts often. Now, however, we must first be interesting to see if and when Bookerly lands on the Kindle eBook reader.