The Amazon typography team worked at the pixel level to ensure consistency of stroke thickness and shape profiles across all individual glyphs, aligning each size to the specific grid of the new Paperwhite display.
While the box grid imposes order, it is challenged by the size and proportion of the niches and by the asymmetry of the dominant horizontals and verticals.
Both had the advantage of building on an established planning grid introduced by a colonial ruler and both have the power to limit immigration and thus size.