Sci/Tech OpenDyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper

[tom_mai78101]

A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour.

OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers.

A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as an option for its users.

The font has also been built into a word processor, an ebook reader and has been installed on school computers. It is designed to give "gravity" to letters to prevent the characters rotating in readers' minds.

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[Varine]

Looks cool. Doesn't really help me that much personally (I mean it doesn't fix my dyslexia. Or my color blindness) but it's an interesting method to solve it.

 

[FireCat]

it's an interesting method to solve it.

Well, indeed

 

[Accname]

I dont know, do you guys really think this is going to help?
Maybe i could use this font in my projects from now on.

 

[KaerfNomekop]

It has a rather comical effect to it, though.

 

[Fatmankev]

Yeah, it is a kinda nice font. I think it'd fit in well as a font for a lot of different styles of independently developed games. I really can't see it helping, though - when I have that sort of issue typing, it happens in my brain before my eyes see it... my fingers just don't hit the buttons in the right order, it has nothing to do with getting confused about what sort of text is on the screen.

 

[camelCase]

Is it strange that I thought of Disgaea when looking at the font?

 

[Varine]

Reminds me of comic sans.

 

[xPass]

This font can actually be said as one of the best fonts I've ever known (to me at least)..