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Originally Posted by HarryT
Font weight is very much a matter of personal taste. The Kindle's fonts seem absolutely fine to me. I've had Kindles since the Kindle Keyboard, and haven't noticed any difference in font weight between the older and newer models.
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I agree that it's a matter of personal taste, but the difference exists and you'll notice it if you compare side by side a modern Kindle with a Kindle 4. For me it's important that the font is comfortable for my eyes, and with the modern Kindle the font looks lighter and it requires more effort for me to read.
Being a matter of taste or individual sensitivity, you might be perfectly comfortable with the fonts the modern Kindles provide, just as I was with the ones the Kindle 4 provided. If you are not comfortable, though, it's really annoying that you can't adjust the weight or sideload a font more to your taste (as I mentioned, you can embed a font in an ebook using Calibre and then open the book in a modern Kindle and select the personalized font, but you have to be forever doing that, book by book).
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Originally Posted by Sirtel
That depends. I've always read exclusively with the Helvetica font and found it satisfying on both old and new Kindles. Of course, it's sans serif, so not to everyone's taste. It's true that all the other fonts on newer Kindles are a bit too light, but not Helvetica.
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That is correct. The Helvetica font is the only one that has quite a lot of weight in modern Kindles, and if you like it then you are fine. However, it's not a very suitable font for reading books on eInk for most readers, being sans serif and all. This is again a matter of taste but it seems that most readers agree that serif fonts (like Caecilia or Bookerly) work better in print or on eInk screens, while sans serif fonts look fine on computer or tablet screens.