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This sounds like a fair critique, but I'm not a dyslexia expert. Some honest questions: Doesn't dyslexia involve transposing the positions of characters, not m

This sounds like a fair critique, but I'm not a dyslexia expert. Some honest questions: Doesn't dyslexia involve transposing the positions of characters, not mirroring individual characters? Or do some/most dyslexics also sometimes misread letters as their mirror-image counterparts? Considering dyslexics have difficulties with already very distinct shapes (i.e., most letters are pretty unique), would a relatively subtle difference between p and mirrored q actually reduce the error rate? Or is that "premature optimization" in that the drop in accuracy due to the p-q mirror images is dwarfed by the gain in accuracy of using Futura?

mrob 8y ago
I remember reading about dyslexics liking Comic Sans because the letters have distinct shapes even after transformation. This then inspired the creation of specialist fonts that are supposedly better, but since I last read about it there's been some research suggesting it doesn't actually help, so I retract my previous post. "Dyslexie font does not benefit reading in children with or without dyslexia": https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11881-017-0154-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11881-017-0154-...