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.

• JustARaccoon@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • AnAmericanPotato@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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      • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  But comic sans is funny

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  • AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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