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Originally Posted by Stunatra
What fonts would you like to see?
The Kindle reading app has Georgia and Lucida and Droid serif, which makes me wonder why they didn't include them on the PW as well. Not that I'm crazy about these 3 but it would provide some nice variety, and are better choices than those other three....
Right now there's only 3 fonts on the KPW I use: Baskerville, Palatino, and Caecillia. I get bored with these pretty quick. I don't consider the other 3 "choices" at all. I do not like sans-serif fonts for reading, and that Caecillia condensed is awful.
Charis seems a no-brainer, because most books with publisher fonts come with it, only it displays awful, like a printer low on ink. Minion too, is one I see a lot in books as publisher fonts but it displays just like Charis.
Times New Roman would be nice--it's one of the most-used fonts in books--and it boggles the mind as to why they didn't include it! Surely these geeks are smart enough to darken and customize the font so it displays nicely (like some users on here have already done). Also Garamond, which I love--both of these come with Windows.
Maybe that font that's commonly used in those Tall-paperbacks, though I'm not sure what it is. Or Caslon Book, or Sabon, or Plantin.
If they added those fonts I mentioned above, I'd be thrilled. They should let us vote on a bunch of fonts, and those with the most votes get added. C'mon Amazon!
Course, if they brought back the simple USE_ALT_FONTS hack I wouldn't care much about new fonts they add. I did hear they're customizing a new font for the new PW....
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I'd love the ALT_FONTS hack back but for now I can only use Helvetica, nothing else is dark enough. I'd love Georgia which is what I use on my iPad mini in the Kindle app and I adore Charis which is what I used with ALT_FONTS.