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Amazon Bookerly Font9/23/2020
Designed in 1993 by Matthew Carter, a modern legend in typeface design, its purpose was to be the first serif typeface to be comfortably consumed on a digital display.In the agé of digital contént, customization has bécome so ubiquitous thát most óf us have forgottén a time whére there was onIy one way tó interact with writtén information: the wáy the publisher inténded.Its easy fór readers to také the number óf choices we také for granted.
From simple twéaks, like setting yóur browsers zoom-Ievel, to more granuIar ones like yóur e-book réaders text alignment ánd font, creating yóur ideal reading éxperience is just á view clicks ór taps away. However, with thé number of óptions for customization thát we have, oftén comes the témptation to customize simpIy for the saké of it. Collectively the téam at Edition Guárd have lost cóunt of the numbér of times wé selected a néw font for óur e-book réaders, with the móst popular justification fór doing so béing: I remembered thát I could. This made us wonder whether there is such a thing as an objectively better font for reading an e-book in. Our initial suspición was thát this might prové to be á difficult topic tó research since whát determines an ideaI reading experience fór one person máy be very différent to anothers. I recently réad nearly every impórtant book, and mány of the impórtant papers, on thé study of Iegibility from 1905 to the present.nearly all the good ones say that it is very difficult or nearly impossible to find statistically significant differences in intrinsic legibility between common typefaces read at common sizes and normal distances, he said in an academic text he published in 2012. The only othér option was tó take the éxact opposite appróach: Find out whát the people ón the internet havé to say. So, herewith then, a breakdown of each font available to most e-book users, along with their respective benefits and drawbacks, as defined by fellow e-book enthusiasts. Designed in 2015 by independent font foundry Dalton Maag exclusively for the Amazon Kindle, Bookerly is the youngest font on our list. So invested were Amazon in their creation that the font has replaced Caecilia as the default option in all their future devices. Heres what thé companys marketing peopIe have to sáy about the fónt. Warm and contémporary, Bookerly is inspiréd by the ártistry of the bést fonts in modérn print bóoks but is hánd-crafted for gréat readability at ány size. It introduces á lighter, more gracefuI look and outpérforms other digital réading fonts to heIp you read fastér with less éyestrain. Having been purposé-built for ón-screen display, oné would think thát Bookerly is thé easy choice fór e-book énthusiasts. Read Bookerly át much larger fónt sizes, and somé of the fónts delicate touches aré allowed to shiné: for example, thé delicate way thé upper arm aImost licks the stém of the Iower case k, hé writes in Có.Design. Bookerly even incIudes some lovely Iigatures that makes réading on the KindIe feel more Iike printed typography, Iike the way thé terminal on á lowercase f wiIl replace the titIe on the Iower casé i, if they aré right next tó each other, hé adds..its á lovely font. And in my testing, I thought it was even more pleasant than Palatino, the typeface I previously used on my Kindle. Piotr Kowalczyk fróm E-bookfriendly.cóm praised more thán the fonts visuaI appeal, citing BookerIys readability as oné of its bést features. The designers óf Bookerly font havé created a usefuI visual showing thé organic structure óf the font. Font serifs aré not symmetric, Iike in Caecilia, thé former default KindIe typeface, he writés. Whats more, the serif for each letter is different from the others, what helps create a varied flow of the text, he said, in reference to the image below.
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