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Bookerly
Bookerly is a serif typeface designed by Dalton Maag for Amazon's Kindle e-reader devices and apps.
About Bookerly
Bookerly is a serif typeface designed by Dalton Maag for Amazon's Kindle e-reader devices and apps. Combined with a new typesetting engine, Amazon.com asserts that the font helps the user "read faster with less eyestrain." The font includes ligatures and kerning pairs. Bookerly replaced Caecilia as the default font for the 2015 Kindle Paperwhite (3rd generation) and it has been used as the default font on Amazon's following e-readers. The Bookerly font was added to many of the older Kindle devices via firmware updates, and it is also available at Amazon's Developer site.
From the Wikipedia article “Bookerly”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Bookerly in a book
Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.
Commercial typefaces require a licence that covers embedding in PDFs and ebooks; check the foundry's licence before you publish.
Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q20683326 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).