They consist of: Amazon Ember (2015), a workhorse sans family. If you have an e-ink Kindle and installed the 5.7 update you would have likely noticed the new home screen that was revised earlier this year. ️ This font has been downloaded 2,000+ times. Copy all the font files into that folder. His articles have been picked up by major and local news sources and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times. This font represents a slight change from the previous Amazon font, which was the Ember font. I used Ember for a while, which was very readable, but just made the whole experience feel more like reading a web page article than a book. I switch between Bookerly and Palatino + several custom fonts but i always come back to Bookerly. Is attribution required while using a Google Font as a piece of art or in video? Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time. Bookerly is the top four lines and Caecilia is the bottom four lines.For example, the Amazon Kindle uses Booklerly, a custom font style designed by Dalton Maag. It’s better than some of the other choices that are available, especially the old standard Caecilia font.īookerly is a lot like Caecilia but it’s a little more condensed and upright, with smoother lines and curves, and it seems just a touch clearer and darker.īelow is a picture showing the two fonts side by side (click for bigger).

Personally I think Bookerly is pretty good but it still isn’t my favorite font. That’s one of the most disappointing things about Kindles is the lack of font choices, and the inability to add custom fonts like many other ereaders and apps offer. Hopefully other Kindle devices and apps will get the new font choice soon as well. But none of the E Ink Kindles have received any new font choices in a long time.

My Fire HD 6 has since gotten the new font choice as well.

I got a notification about Bookerly on my 7-inch Kindle Fire HDX over a month ago (screenshot above) but I totally forgot about it until I saw it mentioned recenly in some forums and articles.

Bookerly vs caecilia