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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Apparently the update changed either the font itself or the way the renderer displays the font. If you want to call everything on your Kindle operating system, then the rendering app would be part of that system. In that case, yes, a change in that system is to blame.
I don't agree with allowing an app to be considered part of the operating system, but there is little sense in arguing about it. And depending on who you ask, you will get different opinions on where the cutoff is to the operating system.
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It's probably not an app: it's probably the FreeType library. There have been a lot of changes to FreeType to improve rendering over the last couple of years, right up to an entirely new hinter. The FreeType updates often come with security and stability fixes too, so it's not unlikely that Amazon updated that, and the tiny rendering changes came along for the ride.