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Originally Posted by jswinden
I'm not a programmer, but it seems like it would not be difficult to allow users to add fonts. Sony offered that with their x00 and x50 readers.* Granted not all fonts will look good on an eInk reader. I see that from time to time with embedded fonts that are not optimized for the reader. But Amazon should at least offer us that ability with the understanding that some fonts will look like poop on the reader. There are plenty of people who would and have made available nice workable fonts.
Again, I'm not a programmer, but it seems like it would be possible to give us a setting to allow us to turn up the weight of the included fonts. One of the reader I had a while back had that feature. I think it might have been the Kobo Touch.
* Well sort of. You can add fonts to a font folder then use CSS to access them. Perhaps I should say Sony didn't prevent us from adding fonts.
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The pw1 allows you to load your own fonts for all books, so no need for embedding. The kobo allows you to adjust the font weight to make text darker.
On the KK, I can adjust margin to really small by editing reader.pref.
Why do we have only 8 fixed font sizes? Why can't the font be changed by one
point increments. Because they want to keep the UI as simple as possible.
This is the case of the UI dictating function rather than the other way around.
It's not a technical problem. They could make small changed to the Aa page. They could keep it as is and add an advanced page for more tweaking. They could put the settings in an editable text file so people who want fine adjustment can get what they want. They just don't want to bother. Because touting "any font size / margin / line / you want" isn't as sexy as stuff like X-ray or social media.