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Originally Posted by FJames
Technically eInk is the brand name for one brand of electrophoretic displays (see http://www.eink.com/history.html), the one that happens to be used by all the major ereaders.
As for the Kindle's font, it is definitely a heavier font than the Kobo default fonts. Just compare the two side-by-side. I'm not saying that's good or bad, or whether it is optimized for the eInk display, but I note that heavier fonts on the Kobo screen also look darker and sharper, so that probably explains the majority of the font impression. |
Would be nice to see some more alternatives to E Ink hit the market. I always had high hopes for the OLPC/Pixel Qi tech, but it just never really got a foothold.
The Kindle font does 'look' heavier (in photos). If it really is or not, I don't know? You'd probably have to extract the font from the device and using raw vectors do a character volume analysis compared to other fonts for a given size. The Kindle font also looks to have less anti-alising style effect on it so maybe their special sauce is some sharpening filter. Has anyone been able to get the Kindle font and load it onto other devices? I know other people have hacked Kindles loading their own fonts and it's just Linux under there, so I doubt Amazon created their own font data format?