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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.

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Bookerly
CategorySerif
FoundryDalton Maag
Date released2015
LicenseCorporate typeface

Bookerly is a serif typeface designed by Dalton Maag for Amazon's Kindle e-reader devices and apps.1 Combined with a new typesetting engine, Amazon.com asserts that the font helps the user "read faster with less eyestrain."2 The font includes ligatures and kerning pairs. 3

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.4 The Bookerly font was added to many of the older Kindle devices via firmware updates,5 and it is also available at Amazon's Developer site.6

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  1. "Amazon fonts". luc.devroye.org. Retrieved 10 June 2021.
  2. "Amazon.com: Kindle Paperwhite: Kindle Store". Amazon.
  3. "Amazon.com: Kindle Paperwhite: Kindle Store". Amazon.
  4. "The Kindle Finally Gets Typography That Doesn't Suck". Co.Design. 27 May 2015. Archived from the original on 27 May 2015.
  5. "The Improved "Bookerly" Font Is Now Available For Most Kindles". Co.Design. 11 August 2015. Archived from the original on 12 August 2015.
  6. "Typography". Amazon.