I use that atkinson font everywhere i can, love it. Not dyslexic myselt.
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Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip 1 day ago
Others have shared the general design ethos behind fonts for people who experience dyslexia, just adding to the conversation, there is little to no evidence of their effectiveness, however:
The authors also comment that there is no harm or reason to discourage children from reading in Dyslexie, if they wish; however, a cautionary note is also voiced that, as with all controversial therapies, resources expended for Dyslexie should not “shift focus … from interventions that have been proven effective.”
(Source: International Dyslexia Association)
It likely doesn’t hurt, but dont expect a miracle cure. I personally use Atkinson Hyperlegible (Next + Mono) because I appreciate the lack of ambiguity between certain characters (Il1|O0). More for coding/technical tasks than reading.
robador51@lemmy.ml 18 hours ago
MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml 15 hours ago
Came here to say this and also promote the same font.
I read a few Google Scholar articles and ce up with the same conclusion. Basically it boils down to larger font size, sans serif, clear differences in similar letters (iliji etc).
Plus one of the dyexic fonts is huge by default and using it plus scalling it down broke other things like emails.
Hyperledgeable or Arial if using default MS fonts (work) set to slightly larger scale is just as good.
I also made a “bionic text” version of hyperledgeable, but the science also calls bullshit on that. I still like it though.