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.

Dr_Nik@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish there was an open font that tries to do the same thing, but with an aesthetic that wasn’t reminiscent of comic sans.

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  • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re looking at it, the one linked In the op lmao

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    • AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Hyperlegible web site makes no mention of dyslexia, only visual impairment. Those are two totally different issues.

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      • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well yes but beauty standards for typography run counter to accommodating for dyslexia, especially for sans serifs. Similarity in shapes, curves, weights, and stroke width are seen as beautiful, but they’re exactly what must be given up for more accessible typography.

        Someone else in the comments here did mention Bionic Reading though, and there’s a free alternative in Fast Font, which has a gradient of weights for each word from black for the first letter to thin for the last one. Might be something to consider

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    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like how that font disambiguates glyphs that often get confused, but I found it to be pretty hard to look at, honestly. I think the main issue might be that the line thickness appears to be uniform at all parts in all letters.

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      • JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        See my reply to the other person for a couple of fonts to try :)

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  • Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But comic sans is funny

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    • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      You’re right, I’m going to change all my fonts to comic sans (or whatever open-source variant might exist)…

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• gofsckyourself@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find it ironic that their website has extremely low contrasting colors making it very hard to read.

  (Look at the top left for the worst example) Image

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  • darkstar@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah it’s almost impossible to read

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• snek_boi@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I actually changed my Anki to OpenDyslexic a couple of months ago! I changed it again when Atkinson Hyperlegible Next came out, but I agree that OpenDyslexic makes reading a breeze.

  My only grievance with OpenDyslexic is that I don’t think I could send reports with this font without pushback. On the other hand, I have sent multiple reports using Atkinson Hyperlegible and nobody has ever said a thing.

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• lol_idk@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I find this harder to read than almost any other “normal” font. I wonder if I have some other reading impairment I’ve never been aware of - having recently discovered I’m also not neurotypical

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  • Master@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    As a dyslexic its very hard to read. But dyslexia isn’t one thing. Its a broad catch all category diagnosis. So im sure it does help some. But damn its also ugly…

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  • DonAntonioMagino@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be honest, studies around whether this font is actually easier to read for people with dyslexia haven’t shown that to be the case. At least, that’s what I remember from reading about it in a Dutch skeptic magazine (Skepter). So if you have dyslexia and find this font harder to read, that doesn’t have to say anything about you.

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• i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wish this font worked for me. I think my brain is defective.

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• Flagstaff@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder how it works. Maybe it has to do with the intentional varying of the sizes of holes in letters.

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  • cynar@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    While dyslexia is actually a cluster of related issues, a common one seems to be with dimensionality. Basically, the reader’s brain assumes the objects are 3 dimensional. When the eyes make micro adjustments, the letters don’t rotate, since they are 2D. The brain misinterprets this as them rotating, or moving. This is perceived as them flickering or moving, in the corner of your eye.

    There are several ways to break this effect. I suspect the shape is intended to mess with and slightly overload the depth sense. Strong colours can also disrupt it. E.g. via a coloured filter or glasses.

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