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Go to the Plugins button (it may be in the extended part of the menu there’s a button on the right to enable it).

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Once you have Calibre installed, you’ll need to install the Kindle Collections plugin.

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Calibre is great general software to have for your Kindle anyway.

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Install Calibre (you can find the download for your operating system here).(If some enterprising reader wants to tell me which category the base model with just a five-way fits into, that would be excellent.) From here, the steps differ depending on whether you’re on a Keyboard, or a Touch or Paperwhite.

Note: you must have all four files outlined above. Put the font files you created in step 3 in the folder. At the base directory of the Kindle (the same level where you’ll see the documents, create a new folder called fonts.

Connect your Kindle to the computer, and open it in Windows Explorer or Finder (depending on whether you’re on Windows or a Mac).

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One friend used Liberation Sans ( free at ), so his fonts ended up being named LiberationSans-Regular.ttf, LiberationSans-Italic.ttf, LiberationSans-Bold.ttf, and LiberationSans-BoldItalic.ttf after renaming them. They don’t have to have these names when you find them all you really need to do is find the regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic versions of the font file, then rename them to match this format. You’ll need font files named -Regular.ttf, -Italic.ttf,, and -BoldItalic.ttf. One great free font that might work well even in its normal weights is the free Crimson. Many of the free fonts you can find online include multiple weights generally you’ll want to use a Medium rather than Regular weight for the base.

Thinner fonts won’t display well and will be hard to read. Appearance suggestion: Find a medium weight (thickness) font.You might start at and FontSquirrel, which have very long lists of free fonts You can find lots of free fonts on the web, many of them with open licenses.

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Use a font that doesn’t forbid conversion in its End User License Agreement. There are online converters you can use, and for best results if you have. otf as long as the extension is changed, but I’m not sure if that’s true. ttf format – some instructions I’ve seen suggest the Kindle will recognize even a. Technical requirements: It’ll need to be either OpenType (.

First, find the font you want to use for your Kindle.

I recently discovered that it is possible, with a fairly small amount of effort, to put whatever fonts you like on your Kindle, without jailbreaking. The new Kindle Paperwhite has gorgeous typography, by all accounts, but if you have an older Kindle, you don’t have to buy a new one to start getting some of the benefits of better typography. It’s also not even close to being a really great reading face. Now you should be able to choose from your selection of new fonts when you open up an e-book and access the font menu.The standard typeface for the Kindle, Caecilia, works well enough: it’s a well-designed, high contrast slab serif that matches the needs of the low-contrast, low-resolution Kindle screens well.

Eject your Kobo and wait for it to finish processing.

Simply just drag and drop all four files into the font folder you created.

Copy and paste all of the files into the Kobo Font folder, you don’t need to make a directory within a directory.

It must be created in the main area where all your eBooks and welcome guides are. This folder must NOT be created inside any other folder such as in the. You want to then create a directory called “ fonts” if none exists.

Plug the Kobo into your computer via the USB cable and use Windows Explorer to open up the device.

There should be four files in the extracted folder.

Next you want to unzip the file using WINZIP or your favorite file extracting program.

In order to install the Bookerly font on your Kobo e-reader you need to download the file from the Good e-Reader Forum.

So how do you get the font file and install it on your Kobo? The big problem though, its only on limited devices, such as the Kindle Paperwhite. It is the first typeface designed for the Kindle for scratch and solves a longstanding problems with text justification, kerning, drop caps, image positioning, and more. A few months ago Amazon released a new font called Bookerly and it is a big step towards better typography.