[Katsunami]

It has been reported that the Kindle PW2 does not support the USE_ALT_FONTS trick anymore. My crystal ball has told me that Amazon will remove this feature/bug from the old Paperwhite as well, when backporting the new KPW2 features. (I destroyed the crystal ball as a punishment for showing me such bad news.)

I know myself: I want the latest firmware and features, but I also DON'T want to give up my very own DejaVu Serif Fat font.

I just can't read well with the built-in fonts anymore. They are all wrong in some way. Too small and thin (Baskerville), fat and ugly (Helvetica, Caecilia and C. Condensed), bad readability (Futura). The only one I like is Palatino, and that one is still a bit thin and has too much line height.

I like DejaVu Serif, but it's too thin on the KPW. I've added weight to it to make it fatter, to be used with the USE_ALT_FONTS trick. It renders *really* bad on screen. It seems LCD's don't take well to just blatantly adding some weight to a font. It renders fine on the KPW, however. I don't know how it will look on other readers.

If it can't be uploaded to the Kindle anymore, it must be embedded in the book, and to do that, it has to be installed on the computer. Therefore I have adjusted the DejaVu Serif Fat in such a way that it can be installed *alongside* the normal DejaVu Serif, even if you have it installed. This was not possible with the previous versions; they'd overwrite the original DejaVu Serif.

On Windows, just select the 4 fonts, right-click, select "Install", and reboot.
Alternative Method in Windows: Drop the fonts into C:\Windows\Fonts, and reboot.
On the Mac, use whatever way of installation method Apple has invented.
On Linux, just google "Font Installation", and do some How-To stuff for 3 days.

Now you will be able to embed the font into your Kindle books when converting; just set it under "Look & Feel" in Calibre. If your source format is AZW3, you'll need to convert from AZW3 to AZW3. After uploading to the Kindle, choose "Publisher Font".

The font is in the attachment. Tomorrow I'll add Georgia Fat and Verdana Fat (which, for some reason, looks a lot better than Helvetica), as I had some requests for those fonts before.

Obligatory small print, intentionally hard to read: This font has a trial period of 15 days, after which your computer and Kindle will explode if you still use it. To prevent this and keep using the font, please donate a book of great value to my library. (The font might also kill kittens, but that is not my responsibility. Please file a bug report to the creators of the original DejaVu Serif.)