Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
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Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#2This typeface bears more than a passing resemblance to Circular, whose owner is known for litigating unauthorized usage. I'm concerned this will become a problem for Inclusive Sans or its users.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#3Another great accessible font – Atkinson Hyperlegible [0]
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#4This typeface bears more than a passing resemblance to Circular, whose owner is known for litigating unauthorized usage. I'm concerned this will become a problem for Inclusive Sans or its users.
Typefaces are not protected by intellectual property law. Fonts, as computer software, are, but it should be easy to show that Inclusive Sans is a completely different program. I wouldn't worry about it, personally.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#5Any font that's designed for accessibility should always run an actual study to measure whether they managed to hit their mark or not. There's countless fonts out there designed to ameliorate dyslexia and other similar conditions that are in practice actually worse than a regular font, despite best intentions. This is something you can measure, you don't have to guess.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#6Did anyone else find the green background and the white text clash in a way that made it difficult to read? I found that ironic given the article.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#7Obligatory: the most accessible font is usually a font your readers are already familiar with. This font looks distinctive, and personally I kinda like it, but it's not a magic wand you can wave over a document to make it more accessible.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#8Did anyone else find the green background and the white text clash in a way that made it difficult to read? I found that ironic given the article.
Not because of the hue, but because the page doesn't respect `prefers-color-scheme`, which makes it hard to take any claim of ‘accessibility’ seriously.
Edit: nor `prefers-reduced-motion`, neither.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#9Another great accessible font – Atkinson Hyperlegible [0] [0] - https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
Actually I like that one better! For instance, Inclusive Sans boasts about its "clear distinction between I [uppercase i], l [lowercase L] and 1", but the lowercase L is just a vertical bar, so might as well be mistaken for an I if there is no I to compare it to. In Atkinson Hyperlegible, the lowercase L has a slight "tail" which helps distinguish it - and the serifs on the uppercase i feel a bit less jarring.
Re: Inclusive Sans: Text font designed for accessibility and readability
#10Did anyone else find the green background and the white text clash in a way that made it difficult to read? I found that ironic given the article.
> Did anyone else find the green background and the white text clash in a way that made it difficult to read?
No, but only because with Javascript disabled there is literally nothing but an olive green page. Truly remarkable, given that it is supposed to be inclusive.