{"id":11353,"date":"2015-05-28T10:27:59","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T14:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11353"},"modified":"2015-05-28T15:17:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T19:17:07","slug":"kindle-typography-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/05\/28\/kindle-typography-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Typography Improvements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3046678\/the-kindle-finally-gets-typography-that-doesnt-suck\">John Brownlee<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.fastcodesign.com\/3046678\/the-kindle-finally-gets-typography-that-doesnt-suck\"><p>But today, Amazon is making a big step towards better typography on the Kindle. Not only are they unveiling Bookerly, the first typeface designed for the Kindle for scratch, but they&rsquo;re finally solving the Kindle&rsquo;s typesetting problems with an all-new layout engine that introduces better text justification, kerning, drop caps, image positioning, and more.<\/p><p>In appearance, it looks something like if Baskerville, a 225-year-old typeface that has been shown to shape our perception of truth, and Caecilia made a baby. Both of these parent fonts were previously available on the Kindle, but they had issues. On low-res devices, Baskerville&rsquo;s thin, elegant lines looked crude, where as Caecilia, a slab serif, was just a bizarre choice for Amazon&rsquo;s previous default font: although it&rsquo;s highly readable, it&rsquo;s a type of font best used for headlines, not body text, because slab serifs often look and feel bolded, even when they&rsquo;re not.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/05\/27\/kindle-bookerly\">Marco Arment<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.marco.org\/2015\/05\/27\/kindle-bookerly\"><p>It&rsquo;s great that Amazon&rsquo;s putting some effort into Kindle typography for the first time in far too long. But this is a small improvement, not a big one.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The new font and hyphenation are also only available on iOS so far. They&rsquo;re not coming to Kindles until &ldquo;later this summer&rdquo;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Bookerly looks nice to me, and I haven&rsquo;t had problems with the justification.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-05-28): <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/amazon-adds-new-font-to-kindle-app-for-ios-coming-soon-for-kindle-devices\/\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.mcelhearn.com\/amazon-adds-new-font-to-kindle-app-for-ios-coming-soon-for-kindle-devices\/\"><p>The difference is subtle, but if you pull back and look at them, you can see that the page with Bookerly is a bit lighter, which takes away that bulky feel you get when reading with Cecelia. This will be more noticeable on Kindle eink devices, where Cecelia is a bit weightier.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Brownlee: But today, Amazon is making a big step towards better typography on the Kindle. Not only are they unveiling Bookerly, the first typeface designed for the Kindle for scratch, but they&rsquo;re finally solving the Kindle&rsquo;s typesetting problems with an all-new layout engine that introduces better text justification, kerning, drop caps, image positioning, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[166,133,31,26,165,134],"class_list":["post-11353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-ebooks","tag-font","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-kindle","tag-typography"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11360,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11353\/revisions\/11360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}