#Kindle paperwhite recent menu install#
#Kindle paperwhite recent menu update#

If the font is not able to be used for rendering the book’s content, your Kindle will use the default system font instead. Once you choose a custom font from the Display Settings (Aa) menu, your Kindle will render the book content using that font for most books. You can now choose a custom font in addition to the Kindle fonts from the Display Settings (Aa) menu Disconnect your Kindle from the computerĤ. Copy the font files into the “fonts” folder on your Kindleģ. If the font is packaged into a compressed file (such as a ZIP file), uncompress the files using your favorite file extracting programĢ.

For the best reading experience, we recommend you install all the files in the font family. Also, fonts are usually available as a font family and may consist of several files for different font styles-one each for Regular, Italic, Bold, BoldItalic, etc.

…Any font you install must be either an OpenType (OTF) or a TrueType (TTF) font. The update’s font folder for your Kindle comes with a readme, which, for your convenience, I’ll reproduce almost in full so you don’t have to open up the file on your laptop or desktop:

The “important” update page includes a helpful explanatory video. Same for the Voyage and eighth-gen Kindles.Ī quick tour of the related documentation suggests that the the install-your-own-fonts feature will be AWOL from devices older than the my sixth-gen Paperwhite, but your Kindle in some cases may actually need an update in the near future for other reasons, such as improved connections with social media services. My sixth-gen Paperwhite and ninth-gen Oasis are among those able to use custom fonts. Follow the links and see if your device is covered, and what you need to do. If you don’t want to wait until your Kindle updates automatically via WiFi, you can download the improvement and get the new capability going now.Ĭheck out Fire & Kindle Software Updates and Important Kindle E-Reader Software Update.

Blessedly, I could change not only the size but also the degree of boldness. The screenshot you see is near the start of Philip Roth’s Patrimony: A True Story, as displayed on my Paperwhite in Dark Courier. Mac owners presumably can do something similar. I just hit the Windows key, searched for “Fonts” and clicked on the desktop’s fonts folder. As a test, I picked up several fonts from my desktop PC. Update 5.9.6 lets you create a special folder in your Kindle for your custom fonts. Oh, the horrors! Thanks for the change, Amazon. Kindle owners could once import their favorite fonts, but then Amazon went into a Putin mode on this issue and did its best to thwart font hacks.

Hooray! You can now install your favorite TrueType or OpenType fonts on recent Kindles by way of new firmware updates.

#Kindle paperwhite recent menu install#

#Kindle paperwhite recent menu update#