Kindle supports custom fonts

I am pleasantly surprised to see that Amazon Kindle now supports installing custom fonts. A big step towards supporting non-latin content in their devices. I can now read Malayalam ebooks in my kindle with my favorite fonts.

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Content rendered in Manjari font. Note that I installed Bold, Regular, Thin variants so that Kindle can pick up the right one

This feature is introduced in Kindle 5.9.6.1 version released in June 2018. Once updated to that version, all you need is to connect the device using the USB cable to your computer. Copy your fonts to the fonts folder there. Remove the usb cable. You will see the fonts listed in font selector.

Kindle had added Malayalam rendering support back in 2016, but the default font provided was one of the worst Malayalam fonts. It had wrong glyphs for certain conjuncts and font had minimal glyphs.

I tried some of the SMC Malayalam fonts in the new version of Kindle. Screenshots given below

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Custom fonts selection screen. These fonts were copied to the device
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Select a font other than the default one
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Content in Rachana.
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Make sure to check the version. 5.9.6.1 is the latest version and it supports custom fonts
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