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What fonts does Kindle use?
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Feb 8, 2010 11:20 PM
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What fonts or font does Kindle use? Are there character maps available? My text has lots of diacritical marks, some of which are non-standard, so I need to know what I will have to change. Thanks for the help.
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Re: What fonts does Kindle use?
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Feb 9, 2010 4:13 AM
in response to: gayatri@kdsi.net
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Basically it's html. If your diacriticals have named html entities, you're fine. For example a & followed by auml; gives you ä.
The software doesn't like numerical entities, however. That's a change from the early days, when I used them all the time.
I've only ever seen the one default font on Kindle. Someone claims to have seen Courier, but I never have and wouldn't know how to evoke it.
Later: note the related thread, where it's noted that the [tt] [/tt] tags (using angle brackets instead of square) will call up the Courier typeface.
Caecelia! No wonder I couldn't remember it--I'd never heard of it!
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Re: What fonts does Kindle use?
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Feb 9, 2010 10:53 AM
in response to: cub06h
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As I understand it, the default font is Caecelia, which is almost never found on a PC, and costs a fortune if you want it. I've long suspected this may be why the display in the Preview always seems to be a little "off," as Windows would convert a call for that font to what the system thought was closest.
This is why the "face" element in the "font" tag on a web page often looks something like this: <font face="baskerville,garamond,timesnewroman,serif">. The browser will use the first font in the list that's installed on the PC.
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