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Damætas · 04-13-2009, 10:42 PM

One of the many uses of the nice unicode font tool is the ability to load fonts on your Kindle 2 that you find more readable than the default font. I like the default K2 font more or less, but with a little experimentation, I was able to update my Kindle with just the right font for my needs. Using Font Creator 5.6, I made a font that is a little bit bigger and a fair amount darker. Now, my smallest size is just ever so slightly smaller than the default size 2 and noticeably darker. I also added support for all the languages in which I was interested. Font Creator is nice, because you can copy the glyphs for Chinese from one unicode font and the Greek glyphs from another unicode font and so forth and combine it all into one custom unicode font. It also has easy-to-use tools for enlarging and darkening fonts. The 30-day trial version is fully-functional. Here are my results ...

04-13-2009, 10:42 PM	#1
Damætas Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 152 Join Date: Mar 2009 Device: Kindle 2	Using Unicode Fonts for darker text One of the many uses of the nice unicode font tool is the ability to load fonts on your Kindle 2 that you find more readable than the default font. I like the default K2 font more or less, but with a little experimentation, I was able to update my Kindle with just the right font for my needs. Using Font Creator 5.6, I made a font that is a little bit bigger and a fair amount darker. Now, my smallest size is just ever so slightly smaller than the default size 2 and noticeably darker. I also added support for all the languages in which I was interested. Font Creator is nice, because you can copy the glyphs for Chinese from one unicode font and the Greek glyphs from another unicode font and so forth and combine it all into one custom unicode font. It also has easy-to-use tools for enlarging and darkening fonts. The 30-day trial version is fully-functional. Here are my results ...