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Exactly. For primary school children, it's really useful to have a printed font that looks like the letters they're actually going to be writing, otherwise you
by MrJohz 5y ago
Exactly. For primary school children, it's really useful to have a printed font that looks like the letters they're actually going to be writing, otherwise you end up making things more complicated than it needs to be. Remember at this sort of age, children are reading letter-by-letter, and not whole words, so they need to be able to recognise the letters easily. The key features are:
* An "a" that looks like the "a" you actually write
* Differentiation between I/l/1
* Differentiation between 0 and O
* As few fancy flourishes as possible (i.e. sans serif)
- alisonatwork 5y agoThis is really interesting. I remember as a child changing my handwriting so that i wrote "a" the same way that it appears on the computer. I still do it to this day, because it's much faster for me to write an "upside down e" in one stroke than the other way. I similarly write "d" with a single stroke too. I wonder if there are any fonts that replicate that kind of minimal stroke count handwriting?