The font that could help dyslexics read better

[Jazzy]

The font that could help dyslexics read better

If you have dyslexia, learning basic reading, writing, and language skills can be a life-long struggle and a source of frustration.

Dutch designer Christian Boer has stepped in to help dyslexic people by creating a specific typeface called Dyslexie that may make it easier to read.

Boer, a graduate of Utrecht Art Academy, was inspired to create the typeface by his own struggles with dyslexia. The font looks a lot like a typical typeface, but is designed so that the difference between each character is more pronounced.

Boer, who is showing the font at this year's Istanbul Design Biennial, conducted research that shows the font allows children to make fewer reading mistakes. According to Boer, researchers at the University of Twente and the University of Amsterdam also studied the effects of the font and corroborate this finding.

Dyslexie is available to download for home use for free on Boer's website.

Just wondering if any members with dyslexia find this font helpful.

 

[Raven]

I get the logic. But that is alot harder for me to read and i am dyslexic.

My favourite fonts are verdana, papyrus http://www.prepressure.com/fonts/interesting/papyrus and comic http://www.fontspot.com/font-category-descriptions.php

 

[DrLeftover]

Good luck with that.

For me, I think it would make reading MORE difficult.


from 2006:

   It isn't often that the Desk recognizes itself in something.
     But the more it read on the Dyslexia site the more it realized that they were talking about it.
     Aside from the part about above average intelligence, the Desk can directly relate to most of the symptoms of Dyslexia. We'll say it here and now: Nobody has ever seriously accused the desk of having above average intellect.
     While at it's day job, which involves working with detailed and specific information about technical matters involving both IDs for high capacity circuits as well as individual telephone numbers for voice commmunications, the Desk has written either an individual numeral or occasionally an entire ten digit phone number or circuit ID (a combination of letters and numbers) backwards, or sometimes, even upside down and backwards or a mirror image. Something it cannot do intentionally- even though it CAN read things that are backwards and upside down- such as sitting across a table from its boss who is doing its performance review.

In the Desk's case only:
     Learning even short phrases in a foreign language is almost impossible. Recalling them correctly sometime later is all but unheard of for it. Taking a Spanish class for credit- futile.
     Cursive writing is something the Desk goes out of its way to avoid. Not only is it's handwriting illegible, it is nearly indecipherable.
     Also memorization can be fun. The Desk has been typing for nigh on thirty years, and it still doesn't know where some of the keys are on the keyboard. Quote Bible verses from memory, not easily. Memorizing Number Sequences like phone numbers, lock combinations, driver's license number... sorry.

More, and resource links:
http://themediadesk.com/newfiles3/dyslexia.htm

 

[+paradox]

fonts can help, as well as size and color...

it all depends and it's different per the individual...

 

[DrLeftover]

That's why I said "for me...."



I still have difficulty reading fancy text or handwriting.

And when somebody writes in that idiot style mixing a lot of symbols and numbers and all that in with their letters, sometimes I can't read it at all without getting a headache.

And don't you start doing that, J, there are times, no really, there are times when I do want to read what you post.