Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
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Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
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Re: Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
#2In the video is says that dyslexic readers made fewer errors when reading the text than normal readers, and they think that means that it helps dyslexics read easier.
What kind of experiment is that? If you want to know if it helps dyslexics, you don't change out the dyslexics... You change out the font!
It sounds like they either don't understand experimentation at all, or they borrowed someone else's results and tried to read things into them.
Edit: As noted below, they apparently actually did test whether dyslexics could read that font better or not. They just also happened to test normal people as well, to see if they were affected. The video confuses this.
Re: Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
#3Related, the Read Regular project: http://www.readregular.com/english/background.html
Re: Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
#4In the video is says that dyslexic readers made fewer errors when reading the text than normal readers, and they think that means that it helps dyslexics read easier. What kind of experiment is that? If you want to know if it helps dyslexics, you don't change out the dyslexics... You change out the font! It sounds like they either don't understand experimentation at all, or they borrowed someone else's results and tr…
The video contained a lot of weird phrasings, probably due to translation... I'd assume that this is more of that.
Re: Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
#5In the video is says that dyslexic readers made fewer errors when reading the text than normal readers, and they think that means that it helps dyslexics read easier. What kind of experiment is that? If you want to know if it helps dyslexics, you don't change out the dyslexics... You change out the font! It sounds like they either don't understand experimentation at all, or they borrowed someone else's results and tr…
Well, it is a nice solution to make someone's life easier when there are no signs of a cure coming. For example, this font could be set up as a system's default (or even it could be enforced as the 'one and only' typeface) and thus it will make dyslexic's life better. IMO it's a win.
Also you should note, that this font was created by a dyslexic, so I think he knows what he is doing.
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#6Related, the Read Regular project: http://www.readregular.com/english/background.html
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Re: Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
#7In the video is says that dyslexic readers made fewer errors when reading the text than normal readers, and they think that means that it helps dyslexics read easier. What kind of experiment is that? If you want to know if it helps dyslexics, you don't change out the dyslexics... You change out the font! It sounds like they either don't understand experimentation at all, or they borrowed someone else's results and tr…
According to the master's thesis there are no significant main effects:
http://www.ilo.gw.utwente.nl/ilo/attachments/032_Masterthesi...
I could imagine that this works well for specific kinds of dyslexia.
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#8Does the kindle support custom fonts? It would be cool if one could experiment with this and other modern fonts focusing on readibility
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#9Interestingly, the much hated font Comic Sans is another good font for dyslexics because the letters look more different from each other than e.g. Times New Roman. Therefore, if you're making invitations to your son's 7-year old birthday, Comic Sans is a great font for the text.
Re: Dyslexie: A typeface for dyslexics
#10In the video is says that dyslexic readers made fewer errors when reading the text than normal readers, and they think that means that it helps dyslexics read easier. What kind of experiment is that? If you want to know if it helps dyslexics, you don't change out the dyslexics... You change out the font! It sounds like they either don't understand experimentation at all, or they borrowed someone else's results and tr…
Please blame the messenger. See http://www.ilo.gw.utwente.nl/ilo/index.php?option=com_conten... for the M.Sc. thesis' conclusions.
Notably:
Students read the reading tests EMT and Klepel twice. Once printed in the font Arial and once in the font “Dyslexie”. The order was randomly assigned and in-between the reading tests an auditory task was fulfilled.
Thus, the study measured whether Dyslexie reads better than Arial. Maybe Georgia reads even better.