6 ms·
As someone with severe dyslexia I hate this font so much. It's so damn ugly and it HARDLY works (for me it's < 10% better). If someone could design an elegant f
by neom 8y ago
As someone with severe dyslexia I hate this font so much. It's so damn ugly and it HARDLY works (for me it's < 10% better). If someone could design an elegant front weighed so that an internal drop shadow can help the mind render the character more easily and accurately in 3D space, that would be a god send.
- swebs 8y agoOut of curiosity, does the Team Fortress 2 font have any effect for you? It looks so similar to the one linked in the article that I thought they were the same. https://www.dafont.com/tf2-secondary.font?text=The+quick+brown+fox+jumps+over+the+lazy+dog&psize=s https://www.dafont.com/tf2-secondary.font?text=The+quick+bro...
- neom 8y agoA bit, generally speaking any font that creates some novelty in the shape usually helps a bit. On this font the b/d and u/n are still similar.
- Milner08 8y agoI agree, I think it trades off being ever so slightly easier to read with being so damn ugly I don't want to read it. I actually think Comic Sans (as ugly as that is) is easier to read and less ugly than this font.
- neom 8y agoI totally agree. I would much prefer to struggle through without it. As a side note, I find it hilarious that they chose to do this with a mapping tool. From what I've gathered from other dyslexic folks and in my experience, maps are actually especially easy to deal with.
- TremendousJudge 8y agoWhat do you think about this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyslexie I've read about it several times but since I don't have dyslexia I don't know if it actually works
- neom 8y agoDoesn't offend my sensibilities, about the same for reading speed and accuracy however (personally I use a lot of text to speech anyways).
- eat_veggies 8y agoHave you tried BeeLine reader? http://www.beelinereader.com/individual http://www.beelinereader.com/individual
- neom 8y agoJust checked it out, 100% wouldn't be useful for me. One of the issues with my inability to read is that my mind continually gets distracted by everything and anything around the letters, even in the grey scale mode it induced a lot of frustration. Changes in colour/tone are extra distracting, and it's hard to describe the feeling when you're continually checking in the back of your mind if these extra things are needed/matter. Another odd example of this is that every time the white bubble around the date box on the top of slack breaks a new line, my eye gets pulled there and I have to go back to the bottom to find the text again. Absolutely exhausting.
- msl09 8y agoI find that super easy to read, thanks!
- Gikoskos 8y agoDamn this idea is really cool and works for me. I wish I knew this site existed much earlier
- gnicholas 8y agoFun fact: BeeLine Reader was launched via a Show HN! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6335784
- jdmichal 8y agoBased on other comments that it's this font: https://www.opendyslexic.org/ https://www.opendyslexic.org/ It looks like they recognize that they are not solving for all forms of dyslexia, but rather a few specific symptoms.
- fredley 8y agoI don't know why but I find it really hard to read on this site. I'm not dyslexic, but by chance I was reading quite a lot of this font over the weekend, printed, and found it no issue - I barely noticed. Here however I find it much harder to read, and I'm not sure why. I think the spacing is too tight, but apart from that I'm not sure.
- mywacaday 8y agoI came to say the exact opposite, I find the flow of the text and my comprehension much faster than a regular web page. Not dyslexic btw
- craftyguy 8y agoThe font reminds me of a bulletin from the National Weather Service.