Amazon Bookerly Font

References: All of the following are available on Google Scholar, if you are interested.Developed by font foundry Dalton Maag, Ember is a custom font developed just for Amazon.

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Its already started showing up in recent updates for the Kindle ereaders as well as in early hands on videos of the Kindle Oasis, and now you can download it and try it yourself.

It is not listed as an option in either my Fire tablets or my Kindles (although I have been told that Amazon is already using it in the menus on the Kindle).

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To me, it is just one more font, lost in a sea of similar fonts.

This is one of my reasons for preferring e-books to print that almost always uses serif fonts.

I think I like the new font but would still like to get a bold option.

Theyre simpler, so by default they will look better on low-res screens.

It has been tuned to look better on screens, and it really does.

Maybe I should revisit that decision when I move to a 300ppi eReader.

There are many theories about what makes a typeface readable, and whole Web sites devoted to the issue.

Many experts provide strident advice about typefaces to indie authors.

I took a two-page sample from one of my books, as it would print in Create Space, and set it in a variety of typefaces.

Then I showed the samples, in randomized order, to a number of people and asked for their evaluations of readability.

Both were set with the kind of leading one would typically find in a book.

Of course all the people I showed the samples to were Americans; Europeans might very well respond differently.

There has been quite a bit of research on how fonts affect reading speeds (not only the subjective readability question, but objectively how long it takes to read a page or two).

This research (a few are listed below) show that there is not much of a difference across font types, except cursive ones or hard to read ones like Kunstler.

These latter have apparently been deliberately created to make one read the text slowly, for example in invitation letters, to grant these letters a sense of gravity.

So, in both objective and subjective measures, there is not much difference (there is something like a 5 effect at most between some fonts).

Generally speaking, though, font size has a much larger effect, as can be expected, than font type.