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Kermit: A typeface for kids

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Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids

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Post by kgwxd »

dylan604 wrote: post #109
losvedir wrote: post #102

As someone teaching their 4 year old to read right now, I don't buy it. The text is long on "friendly" and random stuff like that, but that's not what I'm looking for in a font for kids. Just off the top of my head the "v" in there doesn't have a point on the bottom, which is one of the confusions my daughter has ("u" vs "v"). And I don't think the "n" needs the serif on the right foot, as that's not the "platonic" s…

Stroke 6 of the "r" is weird in that it is making an upward stroke rather than a down stroke. I guess that this still grates after those years learning calligraphy with pens that would not work trying to draw up. All strokes were made with a downward/pulling motion. Pushing a pen like that just didn't work.

e m and t all have the same motion.

Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids

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Post by levocardia »

iNic wrote: post #6

Is there any evidence that any font has a positive impact on reading (beyond obviously bad fonts being slow)? I'm very suspicious of this whole idea.

No - many of the claimed benefits of these various speciality fonts do not actually hold up in real research. For example: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5934461/

Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids

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Post by jedberg »

FjordWarden wrote: post #52

> unpublished study is finding that adding prosody to text improves children’s comprehension. As a dyslexic software engineer who knows by heart a good number of the 50 tables in the open font type specification, I'd like to look into this in more detail but there is no code or paper published about this (yet). In the mean time, it would be nice for people stop using dyslexics as an excuse to motivate for their own s…

As a dyslexic font nerd, I have a question for you. Does Comic Sans actually help? Lots of people claim it's the easiest for dyslexics to read. I'm not dyslexic, but I set all my chat windows to Comic Sans because I've found that it helps me read it.

Curious if the claims have truth to them.

Re: Kermit: A typeface for kids

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Post by postalrat »

38 wrote: post #104
sambeau wrote: post #84

If you want to read it on a site that doesn't mess with scrolling, try here : https://kermit-font.com

that website is also terrible - no scrolling issues because you cannot scroll at all - and no idea what to click because not a single labeled button/link on the entire page, only some vague unlabeled icons. even on hover you get nothing

Probably best to just view the PDF https://kermit-font.com/_assets/Kermit.pdf
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