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Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by pmarreck »

wcerfgba wrote: post #2

Are there any monospaced fonts like this, with a focus on hyperlegibility?

I am a big fan of Berkeley Mono. It has (for me at least) this really hard to describe fusion of retro and modern that just feels perfect for coding and console to me. Note: Unfortunately not free, but I did manage to figure out how to make it a static definition as part of my NixOS declarative configuration, lol.

https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono

Note that I just noticed that you can easily add Atkinson Hyperlegible Font to your Nix config, the package is called (unsurprisingly) `atkinson-hyperlegible`

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by moralestapia »

DiabloD3 wrote: post #17

Although the font did really try to nail its goal, I think Iosevka really nailed it. On top of that, somebody took some of what Atkinson did with their font, and applied it to Iosevka, using its insanely powerful ability to be customized wildly, to produce http://thedarnedestthing.com/iosevka%20hyperlegible

FWIW, the font on that blog post is not Iosevka,

You can find Iosevka here -> https://typeof.net/Iosevka/

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by soco »

cyral wrote: post #20
OneLeggedCat wrote: post #12

I like this idea, but when I go to the web page... > Download the Font… and change the world! By downloading, installing and/or using the font software, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms of this End-User License Agreement... Sigh. I guess I need to read that EULA. Anyway, clicking on that then downloads a pdf rather than a nice link to some web page text. Sigh. So then anyway, trying t…

Not sure why it wouldn't open for you, but it opens fine in Chrome on Mac. I thought it would be some ridiculous 50 page legalese but it's actually only 1.5 pages long. it's basically a license similar to what you'd see on a Github repo.

But why PDF at all? Is there a reason to put the online license in a PDF? Or any other places, like the restaurant menus? is there anybody who wants/needs to print the license or the restaurant menu?

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by xmonkee »

epgui wrote: post #3
wcerfgba wrote: post #2

Are there any monospaced fonts like this, with a focus on hyperlegibility?

There are a number of very nice monospace typefaces that have lots of character variants so you can essentially pick and choose different letter styles (dotted, crossed or regular zeros, etc). I personally love Fira Code with its ligatures.

I recently discovered Fira code through https://www.codingfont.com/. I played with font names off, and Fira code won two times in a row :) I'm still amazed at how pleasant it looks on my screen.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by leephillips »

OneLeggedCat wrote: post #12

I like this idea, but when I go to the web page... > Download the Font… and change the world! By downloading, installing and/or using the font software, you confirm that you have read and agree to be bound by the terms of this End-User License Agreement... Sigh. I guess I need to read that EULA. Anyway, clicking on that then downloads a pdf rather than a nice link to some web page text. Sigh. So then anyway, trying t…

It downloads rather than opening in your browser because that’s how you’ve configured your browser. For me it opens in the browser (albeit in a new tab). There’s nothing wrong with the PDF, I can open it with all the PDF readers on my machine; it’s a basic v.1.6 PDF file. This is, in fact a “nice link to some web page text”: a page of text served over the web.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by NelsonMinar »

I'm uncomfortable with people publishing work like this without studies to back up whether they work for their intended audience. I'm sure the Braille Institute is expert in needs of low vision readers. And the design certainly looks promising. But AFAICT no one has studied whether this font is actually more readable. https://www.maxkohler.com/notes/2021-02-16-atkinson-hyperrea...

The mess with the popular-but-not-effective OpenDyslexic isn't good for anyone except publishers wanting to tick off an "accessibility" checkbox. (Thinking particularly of the library e-reader Axis360 which includes only two fonts; a bad regular font and a "dyslexia font". Neither are particularly readable IMHO.) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by taeric »

NelsonMinar wrote: post #27

I'm uncomfortable with people publishing work like this without studies to back up whether they work for their intended audience. I'm sure the Braille Institute is expert in needs of low vision readers. And the design certainly looks promising. But AFAICT no one has studied whether this font is actually more readable. https://www.maxkohler.com/notes/2021-02-16-atkinson-hyperrea... The mess with the popular-but-not-ef…

This implies there is a study showing the open dyslexic font is actually not good? I can't say that would shock me, but it is surprising that they wouldn't have done some studies to justify the claims.

Edit: the second link wasn't loading for me, so now I see the study. Bad phone internet... :( Again, still surprised they didn't have the counter study.

Re: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

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Post by mrunseen »

It is more legible than your average "font-family: sans-serif” (aka Arial, Roboto, Helvetica) but it’s not that much of an “original idea”. For example Frutiger by Adrian Frutiger, a type family that a lot of airports use as it’s designed with legibility at long distances, or even the Verdana by Matthew Carter, ubiquitous web font that powers this and a lot of other websites’ typography that has specifically designed for legibility on low resolution screens, aren’t that less legible than this font. Still, I like the idea that some people on Braille Institute has decided to commission a typeface with a “free” license.
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