Summary of fonts available across Kindle devices - Page 2

Richwood · 03-12-2020, 01:48 AM

Kindle readers from the K2 and Kindle DX through the original kindle Touch had one to three hardware fonts available with 8 sizes of print available. The K2 and DX had one font shown. The Kindle Touch lists 3, Hevetica, Caecilia and Caecilia Condensed. The Kindle NT and Kindle Keyboard list "regular", "condensed" and "sans serif" as font choices. I do not believe that more fonts were available until the PW1, possibly with firmware upgrades. All of these were just checked and with the latest available firmware installed.

Other fonts, if possible, had to be encoded in book files I believe.

BookCat · 03-21-2020, 06:14 AM

Call me dim but I can't see the point of this table except for historical interest. The ability to use custom fonts seems to make it redundant.

Could someone please enlighten me?

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03-12-2020, 01:48 AM	#16
Richwood Astronomy Nut Posts: 519 Karma: 3700000 Join Date: Oct 2017 Location: Reno, NV Device: Kindle (All), Kobo (Multiple), Sony (most) and Nook Glowlight Plus	Kindle readers from the K2 and Kindle DX through the original kindle Touch had one to three hardware fonts available with 8 sizes of print available. The K2 and DX had one font shown. The Kindle Touch lists 3, Hevetica, Caecilia and Caecilia Condensed. The Kindle NT and Kindle Keyboard list "regular", "condensed" and "sans serif" as font choices. I do not believe that more fonts were available until the PW1, possibly with firmware upgrades. All of these were just checked and with the latest available firmware installed. Other fonts, if possible, had to be encoded in book files I believe.

03-21-2020, 06:14 AM	#17
BookCat C L J Posts: 2,912 Karma: 21115458 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham UK Device: Sony e-reader 505, Kindle PW2, Kindle PW3, Kobo Libra2	Call me dim but I can't see the point of this table except for historical interest. The ability to use custom fonts seems to make it redundant. Could someone please enlighten me?