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I have dyslexia and I can tell I have to slow down a bit when reading this, but it’s not bad. I assume the closeness between characters makes it slightly worse
by OGWhales 4y ago
I have dyslexia and I can tell I have to slow down a bit when reading this, but it’s not bad. I assume the closeness between characters makes it slightly worse for everyone, especially with characters like “o” and “c” differing by a single pixel.
On the topic, I recently learned about the Dyslexie font [0] as well as OpenDyslexic [1]. You can see the goal is to make characters easily differentiated. Not sure how I feel about these fonts—I can certainly read them easily, but I am not a fan of the style. There are other fonts I can read just as well which look better too.
[0]: https://www.dyslexiefont.com/ https://www.dyslexiefont.com/
[1]: https://opendyslexic.org/ https://opendyslexic.org/
- tsuujin 4y agoInteresting research paper on those fonts: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11881-017-0154-6
- Zobat 4y agoQuestion: Are you a programmer? If so, what is you opinion on ligatures? Do they help in readability of code?
- OGWhales 4y agoI am. I think in some cases they can be cool, but I don't find them obviously beneficial and have never bothered to use them. I don't find symbols like != to be particularly challenging, as the shape is clear and the meaning well ingrained in my brain. Maybe if I used them for a year I would strongly prefer ligatures, but right now I don't feel the need to use them.