About Kindle
The first Kindle shipped in November 2007 with a six-inch E Ink Vizplex panel. Its paper was a matte grey with a faint green cast, its ink a dark grey rather than black, and it could draw four grey levels. Nothing glowed. Nothing scrolled.
This system keeps that discipline. One column of justified serif text sits between a thin running header and a location footer. Lists are square, selection is a bar in the margin, and the only motion is the black flash of a page turn.
- Origin
- Seattle and Cupertino, United States
- Era
- 2007–2016; Kindle on E Ink Vizplex (2007), Paperwhite 3 with Bookerly (2015), Oasis with Amazon Ember (2016)
- Key figures
- Jeff Bezos · Gregg Zehr · Dalton Maag · Nicholson Baker
- Movements
- electrophoretic e-paper displays · digital long-form reading · calm technology
Kindle design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
LiterataHeadings
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