Is Paperwhite un-contrasting fonts?

[johndoesecond]

Originally Posted by max99

as someone else pointed out above, the fading is supposed to be there to avoid smudging or ghosting between partial pages refreshes. you can make something look darker simply by adding more dark pixels but you'd end up with badly defined text.

increase the font size to maximum and closely watch what is happening on page turn. the algorithm is removing excess pixels around the edge of the letters...that's what you perceive as a contrast reduction. note also you don;t see a contrast drop when page flipping at maximum font size...that's because what you're seeing is an illusion of sorts. believe me you would not want to disable this feature unless you enjoy reading smudged text.

Yes, this were exactly my findings and impressions (including the sort-of-an-illusion bit). But then, I thought maybe something can still be done to "improve" this thing...