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. 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). According to reader reports, this started happening with reading devices which were able to receive the 5.8.7 firmware (or higher). That meant Kindle Paperwhites (generation 6 and later). 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)

Kindle 4 (aka Kindle Touch)

Caecilia
Caecilia Condensed
Helvetica -- Sans Serif
Publisher Font

Kindle Fire (version unspecified)

Arial - sans serif
Baskerville
Caecilia
Courier
Georgia
Helvetica - Sans Serif
Lucida Sans Unicode - Sans Serif
Palatino
Times New Roman
Trebuchet
Verdana - Sans Serif
Bookerly (unsure about which KF versions it appears on?)

(This info comes from a great Roger Packer article, How to Choose typography for ebooks). PS, would be nice to know which of these would be the system defaults for serif and sans).

Fire HD 8

Bookerly
Caecilia
Georgia
Palatino
Baskerville
Helvetica (Sans Serif)
Helvetica Light (Sans Serif)
Lucida

(Info Source: This video review of Fire HD 2016).

Kindle Paperwhite

Caecilia
Caecilia Condensed
Baskerville
Futura
Helvetica (Sans Serif)
Palatino
Bookerly (only for 3rd generation and after)
Publisher Font

(This info comes from this article about 1st gen Paperwhite and this article about Bookerly).

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. (It is unclear to me whether these fonts are installed on all these reading systems or whether they are installed only AFTER the Kindle owner loads an ebook in one of these languages).

Kindle Basic 7 (7th generation, 2014)

Baskerville
Bookerly
Caecilia
Caecilia Condensed
Baskerville
Futura
Helvetica (Sans Serif)
Palatino
Open Dyslexic

Kindle Basic 8 (8th generation, 2016)

Amazon Ember (Sans Serif, see this comparison video)
Baskerville
Bookerly
Caecilia
Caecilia Condensed
Baskerville
Futura
Helvetica (Sans Serif)
Palatino
Open Dyslexic

Kindle Oasis

Amazon Ember (Sans Serif, see this comparison video)
Amazon Ember Bold
Baskerville
Bookerly
Open Dyslexic
Palatino
Publisher Font

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