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Comment on You should know there's a font designed to make reading easier, especially for people with low vision. It's called Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. It's free for personal and commercial use.

FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Can I change fonts on my iphone, can I change it to this? I have a disability that impacts my vision and currently I’ve been relying on making text massive but this could be a better solution it sounds like.

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acockworkorange@mander.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I don’t think so. At least I couldn’t find anything on my settings app.

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CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
No. Very irritatingly, iOS won’t let you install fonts normally.

In order for you to install a font, someone else needs to make an app for that font, and once you download and run the app that installs the font, that font becomes available anywhere.

This seems profoundly stupid to me and I do not get it.

There actually is an app for the older font, which you can find if you search for “hyperlegible”, where some guy is charging $2 to package up this free font for you.

Thanks, Apple. As usual you’ve done a great job ensuring that nobody gives away anything for free on iPhones

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- CarbonBasedNPU@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I can’t say I blame the person charging when apple charges you to upload an app to the app store.
  
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  - CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    No, can’t blame the app dev at all but we can blame Apple for making open source and other free software so difficult on their phones
    
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