Comment on How do fonts for people with dyslexia work?

• Witchfire@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It looks like that one targets low vision more than dyslexia so it lacks things like heavy bottoms. However, they are both easier to read than typical typefaces.

  Similarly, the US govt used Calibri for a short time since it’s more accessible than other typefaces. But as with anything intended to help people, Trump axed it

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• Pissmidget@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Neither am I, so I’ve only heard about them. I’m a big fan of the concept, and better accessibility for everyone, though.

  However, if anyone needs opinions on a decent mono space font with ligature support I can offer one up!

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  • SwooshBakery624@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Iosevka is my favorite one.

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  • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    mono space font with ligature

    I always wondered what the point of that is, so I’m keen to hear your opinion! (Although I already sense where this goes given the topic.)

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    • Pissmidget@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      When writing programming code, markup, or any other structured text of that sort, it is easier on the eyes and to parse mentally when vertically aligned. At least when reading English characters left to right, top to bottom. (I don’t read much else in that capacity).

      Whereas with the written word, letters flow into each other, to give a better reading experience.

      As for ligatures, having != (not equal), <= (smaller or equal to), == (equal), === (extra certain we’re equal as we messed up the implementation of ==, but need backwards compatibility) or similar operators show as the symbols they represent (while still maintaining the correct spacing), is more comfortable when ingesting large amounts of code, to me at least.

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      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        ligatures, having != (not equal), <= (smaller or equal to), == (equal),

        Oh yeah I forgot about those. Those make perfect sense in a coding font, but I have seen “fi” or “ff” etc. together in 1 character cell and it’s completely unusable.

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• ChaosMonkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  FYI the link you shared seems to be a Google tracking link. The destination URL is www.brailleinstitute.org/freefont/

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  • TVA@thebrainbin.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Blah, I hate that on Android Google has started commandeering all links and converting them. Thanks for the heads up, updated my link.

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