Speaking as a non-dyslexic, that font is actually really hard to read. Very interesting project, though.
Speaking as a dyslexic, it hurts my eyes.
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#12I'd love to see some details about why fonts like this are easier for dyslexic people to read.
One theory is that the "heavier" base "anchors" the font, and stops letters dancing.
I have no idea what the research is like.
This old website has some calm information: (http://www.dyslexic.com/fonts)
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#14I'd love to see some details about why fonts like this are easier for dyslexic people to read.
The idea is that many letters in the Latin-based alphabet are similar (i/j, v/w, b/d/p, etc.) and dyslexics confuse them. The idea of the fonts is emphasize the differences and de-emphasize the similarities.
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#15I will donate $200 if they release a monospaced version.
This may be of interest to you (non-free):
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#16I'm dyslexic and I love this idea! However this font is much harder to read.
Here are my trouble letters in this font: http://i.imgur.com/ilkUV.png Note that there is no indication what letters these are other than by direction (which is really hard for many dyslexics).
Compare this to a regular font: http://i.imgur.com/mbi54.png Note that there are hints in the serifs that distinguish direction.
By reversing the regular serif font, you can see these hints: http://i.imgur.com/t1sxB.png=
Also, the kerning is pretty bad: http://i.imgur.com/A9PJk.png
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#17Is the weird kerning on the lowercase i intentional?
More than anything it reminds me of the Team Fortress 2 font http://wiki.teamfortress.com/wiki/Fonts. I wonder if they're both the result of some optimization process.
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#18That's interesting. I've received documents from people in the past that have looked like this and my first reaction was always "why did this person send me a document in the ugliest font possible?". Never thought there was actually a reason for it.
They thought you were dyslexic? (Otherwise, there's no reason to send people text with those fonts---as opposed to using that font in your editor.)
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#19I'm dyslexic and I love this idea! However this font is much harder to read. Here are my trouble letters in this font: http://i.imgur.com/ilkUV.png Note that there is no indication what letters these are other than by direction (which is really hard for many dyslexics). Compare this to a regular font: http://i.imgur.com/mbi54.png Note that there are hints in the serifs that distinguish direction. By reversing the reg…
There are several versions of the font available, and the newest on github and dafont have some of those issues fixed.
There are Windows specific issues, and those are being worked on.
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#20That's interesting. I've received documents from people in the past that have looked like this and my first reaction was always "why did this person send me a document in the ugliest font possible?". Never thought there was actually a reason for it.
They thought you were dyslexic? (Otherwise, there's no reason to send people text with those fonts---as opposed to using that font in your editor.)
I'm assuming they were dyslexic themselves and found it easier to read that way and assumed everyone else did too, either that or they just forgot to change the font.