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.

untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It doesn’t work for me either. Just reading the text on the page linked here was uncomfortable. It’s not like you describe though - for me it’s like there’s too much white space and there’s this mass of words almost floating around the page and it’s hard to keep track of where I’m up to. I am a bad/slow reader and all reading is like that for me - that font just seems to make it worse.

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  • CandleTiger@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think this font is meant for people with bad eyesight. The website doesn’t make any claims about trouble reading for other reasons.

    I’ve always read very fast with no problems but now I’m old and can’t see small print as easily. This font actually was much more comfortable for me to read without my glasses, which I guess is nice for me but no use at all for you.

    How do you feel about comic sans and the open dyslexia font some other comments on this page are talking about with positive and negative comments? Do those make any difference at all to you?

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    • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For me comic sands is 100% easy to read. Only has negative connotation from personal experience and the meme of it.

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    For me it was the default font size. Way to big on that page. Again, not target audience.

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• snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That’s interesting. I’d love to know if you have the same experience on a desktop and with different font sizes.

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  • Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s fine for me on mobile, and I’m glad that the “I” has horizontal lines. So many scammers adopt fake usernames by using an “I” (capital “i”) instead of an “l” (lowercase “L”) and vice versa.

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s just the font size. I have to zoom out to 50% then it’s pretty comfortable. But also I’m not the target audience and if my eyesight goes later on in life I’ll probably benefit. I’m glad sites are considering things like this for accessibility.

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• morrowind@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do you struggle with monospace fonts too?

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  • untorquer@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Not at all.

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