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Originally Posted by sirmaru
I don't understand all the problems with fonts on the Paperwhite 2013. I use Size 6 Helvetica and they look fine to me without any glasses and I have Macular Degeneration in BOTH eyes and a large cataract in one eye.
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I'm not surprised you can read Helvetica 6 despite problems like that. If the book uses the default 1em base font size (which many, if not most do), I could probably read Helvetica size 6 if I was actually blind.
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If I can read them fine, I don't see why anyone else needs jail breaks, custom fonts or any other labor intensive solutions.
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Because there ARE people who don't need any font above 5? For them it would be nice if the entire scale would range from 1 to 5, but then using 10 steps instead of 5. That is what hacks like these often do. Maybe it's something to consider? There's an enormous size jump between size 4 and 5, and there are a lot of people who'd actually want something like size 4.5. Also, not all fonts on the Kindle are the same size. Baskerville 4 is smaller than Palatino 4. However, Baskerville 5 is larger than Palatino 4. If you want to read using Baskerville at the same size Palatino 4 has, then you can't. A hack solves that too.
Edit: I've attached two images. The first is Caecilia Condensed 4, which I'm using now, and the second is Helvetica 6. I hope you can understand that not everybody wants or needs a font as huge as Helvetica 6. To be honest, I personally deem font sizes 7 and 8 to be useless. If you need THAT, I think it may be better to start looking into audiobooks....