Yikes, I gave up reading this after about 20 seconds, idk what it was but this font is unreadable.
Kermit: A typeface for kids
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#12I get: "Site is unreachable"
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#13Yikes, I gave up reading this after about 20 seconds, idk what it was but this font is unreadable.
I found it enjoyable to read.
Obviously some placebo effect from the context but it felt fun.
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#14Is 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.
There has been efficacy for people with dyslexia. Fonts like comic sans are closer to their own writing and therefore are easier to read. You can also look at the Geronimo Stilton book series, a lot of words appear in different colors / fonts to emphasise words. These books are often easier for children and those with dyslexia to read. Note: I still feel like calling it a typeface that makes reading easier is inappro…
Also, every letter has a very unique shape and the overall shape of words shifts entirely even for very similarly spelled words.
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#15I remember this getting posted again, on a different domain, and with different messaging, with no mention of kids.
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#16Is 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.
It was claimed that OpenDyslexic could mitigate some of the common reading errors caused by dyslexia.
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#17Kermit Sans
Comic Sans Pro for Kids 2025 Edition
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#18This is anecdotal and I hope someone who has some research experience can say whether this is true or not generally, but I recently got a Kindle and found that if I use really large font sizes where there are fewer than 50 words on a page it's easier for me to stay engaged. Maybe this has something to do with cognitive load or chunking information. Some fonts look quite a bit better at these large sizes. So for me I don't think typography alone is sufficient. I think the interaction between a large font size and a typography that looks pleasing at a large font size helps with engagement.
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#19Trying to find out how this font is licenced is painfully impossible on both the linked Microsoft website and the atrocious https://kermit-font.com/ homepage.
Regardless of the claimed merits of this font (I'm not dyslectic and this font just strains my eyes), I hold the opinion that any effort like this by a megacorp like Microsoft should be approached by them from a charitable angle. If this font isn't permissively licenced (I.e., Microsoft bought it and liberated it from creator Underware) and is just an Office exclusive, it is pointless, and possibly harmless (like that font which OpenDyslexic is based on).
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#20It is unfortunate that this sort of mathematics wasn't available to the students who were creating the Euler font.
https://tug.org/pubs/annals-18-19/euler-summary.pdf
Another consideration which I'm surprised wasn't made use of is that letter recognition is overwhelmingly focused on the upper half of letters --- ages ago, there was a typeface developed which took advantage of that, providing variants of letters where the lower halves were modified so as to indicate how a particular letter used in a particular word was pronounced, so that the "c" in "cat" had a different lower portion from the "c" in "cent".
That said, I'd really like it if they would publish the software used to make this font, ideally as opensource --- I have a type design project which stalled against the need to create variants for each size, working from an incompleat set of letterforms at each size (the only letters available in the compleat size range from the sample I had were "n" and "N", go figure) --- I believe this would let me finish up all the sizes of the design.