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Old 05-01-2009, 08:57 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by ChaseKR View Post
If I'm not mistaken, doesn't the contrast issue have to do with the hardware and not the software?
The sunlight fading is likely a HW problem, but the contrast problem between the K1 and K2 is software.

K2 employs a new set of fonts or at least font rendering techniques designed to take advantage of the extra grayscale by smoothing/antialiasing the font edges. The letters appear more crisp in direct daylight, but loose a lot of contrast due to using less black pixels.

http://kindleformatting.com/blog/200...erspective.php

http://sites.google.com/site/kindle2ui/newfonts

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Font clarity and size: The new 16-level grayscale screen, in addition to making images clearer, has made the Kindle font (Caelicia) show up a bit better on the screen. That actually makes the font a little bit lighter, from what I can tell, but it does not make it significantly less readable.
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