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Originally Posted by molman
What makes you draw that conclusion Harry? Do you have a link to a factual study of the Kindles typography with relation to eInk display technology (particularly the varients used in the Kindle and Kobo's) or do yourself have a background in typographic analysis and design with technical insight to eInk screens? Not trying to have a go, genuinely interested in your assertion.
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Firstly, the Kindle and the Kobo Touch use precisely the same screen, made in the same factory, on the same production line. There are no "Kindle and Kobo variants" - the screen is the same in the two devices. So you can rule out screen differences as being a cause of different appearance.
It's well-known that the Kindle font is "hand-optimized" by Amazon to the device. It's because, unlike the Kobo, the Kindle doesn't have changeable fonts (well, OK, it has three different fonts, but that's it - you can't load your own) whereas the Kobo has to deal with any font, so the font rendering engine can't be optimized for any particular font.
This is true of any ADE device, not just the Kobo. If I compare the fonts on the Kindle with my Sony PRS-350 or my BeBook Neo, the Kindle's fonts are distinctly crisper in their appearance.