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Originally Posted by sonyreaderfan
The Kindle rendering of fonts makes it appear darker.
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"The Kindle’s rendering is slightly more readable, with the Nook’s too often aligning on half-pixel boundaries, resulting in thin gray strokes.
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Aligning the font outline with pixel borders is called "hinting".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hinting
you MUST read the following article if it interests you.
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/...tingIntro.mspx
Kindle goes one step further. Caecilia font (the copy located at the Kindle 3 device) contains hand-tweaked raster versions of font at sizes used by Kindle.
Traditionaly Microsoft does very aggressive hinting on fonts used to display things on Windows, and Apple used almost no hinting. At small point sizes, the hinting can severely change the look of a letter, but it improves our perception of contrast and clarity, because font boundaries are very crisp.
see:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/06/12.html