Several sources report that Kindle Paperwhite (6th generation and later) include Korean: HY Gothic & HY Myeong, Chinese: M Ying Hei & ST Heiti & ST Song, Indic: Noto Sans Bengali/Devanagari/Gujarati/Kannada/Malayalam/Tamil/Telugu. (This info comes from this article about 1st gen Paperwhite and this article about Bookerly). Bookerly (only for 3rd generation and after).(Info Source: This video review of Fire HD 2016). PS, would be nice to know which of these would be the system defaults for serif and sans).
(This info comes from a great Roger Packer article, How to Choose typography for ebooks).
If you know of other non-European fonts which are included by default on your device or app, feel free to mention in the comments) That meant Kindle Paperwhites (generation 6 and later). According to reader reports, this started happening with reading devices which were able to receive the 5.8.7 firmware (or higher). I've seen reports starting in 2016 ( here and here) that (unspecified) versions of Kindles devices for India include Noto Sans (the portion which support the Indian languages). Important Note: Kindle devices (and possibly apps on ios/android/windows) targeted for non-English speaking countries might have a different set of default fonts. No information is given about which fonts are the reading system's default for the general terms ("Serif, "Sans-Serif", etc).
Overdrive for Android 3.6.2 (Overdrive is a library reading app which uses a branded version of Adobe DE reader and its DRM). Note: GPB does NOT have an option for the user to select Publisher Defaults (unless it is "Original")
Kobo app for AndroidĬompared to the ereaders, the app is more limited in the customization options:Ģ. Of course, these customizations are optional, and it is possible to default fonts as defined inside the ebook.Ībout titles, if there are not specific settings inside the ebook stylesheets, they are treated like other text: besides having a larger size, if not explicitly set to something else, the default Georgia is used.
"Noto Sans." Noto is a multilingual font developed and supported by Google, but Amazon has only used portions of this Noto font for Indian languages. On the device this font is referred to as
UPDATE 3 (5/2017) A commenter has pointed out that some Amazon Kindle devices are using fonts for Indic languages written in Bengali/Devanagari/Gujarati/Kannada/Malayalam/Tamil/Telugu.
Also, if you have any insight as to which font would be considered the default Serif or Sans Serif choice by the reading system, please mention it. Please indicate whether there is an option to specify Publisher Defaults on the reading system. UPDATE 2 I encourage people to post fonts existing on the mobile devices or reading systems that they have. Therefore, you would need to specify a heading font if you want it to be different. UPDATE: Someone on KDP forum has confirmed that user-selected fonts for kindle systems are the same for body fonts and heading font. On a related question, can I assume that all titles are in the default sans-serif font? When a customer overrides publisher defaults and chooses a certain font (like Bookerly on kindle), does that leave the title fonts still in the default sans-serif? Kindle e-ink, Kindle android app, Google Play Books, ibooks, Kobo, Adobe DE. If various reading systems have defaults for serif and sans-serif, can you tell me what they are? In epub and kindle css, you can specify a fallback font by specifying p