I like Bookerly, and I think the designers met the design brief for a font that would display well on screens of all sizes and that would create an easier reading environment for their millions of avid ebook readers.Ĭaecilia has some of the same characteristics of the slab serif Bookerly, but the new font is far more graceful and even on the type line.
#KINDLE BOOKERLY FONT DOWNLOAD FOR MAC#
I had no trouble selecting Bookerly from the font list on my iPhone 6 Kindle App, but font selection was no where to be seen in the Kindle App for Mac I downloaded today on my Mac Book Air running Yosemite. Large font adaptations-customizing the margins, columns, indents, nested lists, borders, and drop caps to keep the page easy to read.Īmazon’s page lists the last four of these innovations as “coming soon,” although some writers report having seen the upgrades on their own devices.Improved page layout-drop caps and better positioning of text and images will make Kindle pages more book-like.Improved character placement-kerning and ligatures will now allow more print-like typographic features, although nicely kerned letter pairs won’t help a line with big white spaces in it.Hyphenation and improved spacing-introducing hyphenation alone will improve the look of almost every Kindle ebook, eliminating the unseemly and distracting big white spaces in the middle of lines that couldn’t be justified any better.Bookerly, a brand new font designed especially for the Kindle-the font has been gradually introduced since December 2014.On Amazon’s own site for the new Kindle PaperWhite, they list 5 new features: The rollout of these features seems to be happening slowly along Amazon’s product line, and it’s hard to tell which devices have received which upgrades. Now Amazon has put some work into upgrading both the font selection on its Kindle devices and apps, but also on other areas of typography that Kindle has historically fallen down on. I’ve typeset books in Baskerville, but there’s Baskerville, then there’s Baskerville, a sturdy face with high stroke contrast and lovely long serifs, not the weak-tea version on the Kindle. Many ebook readers-and not just us typography nerds and designers, either-have complained about the limited font set provided with the major e-readers.Ĭonsidering the vast sums that have been spent on developing these devices, it’s always seemed odd to me that they would trumpet their e-reading devices and commitment to book readers, then ship a product that aims to fulfill these promises… but only in one of these fonts:
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