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shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Contrast was the same, dark theme, white text on black. Don’t have any form of dyslexia far as I know. Only human I knew that read more and faster than I was dad, who funny enough, had reverse dyslexia. LOL, that man literally couldn’t write his own name on a bank check. “Robert” came out “Rqqqewt”, but he could plow 4-5 short novels on a Saturday afternoon and discuss the contents.

As to aging and such, keep in mind, the issue went away on another site and seems to be WAY better on regular lemmy.world. Old.lemmy.world has a different font. But how does that affect my writing?! Weird, if true.

I’ll experiment with default browser faults! I really only want to change old.lemmy so I can test. It’s an interesting problem to be sure.

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mschae@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
There are browser addons you can use to change the styling on individual sites, like Stylus for Firefox. They require some knowledge of CSS though.

For example, to change the font of the comment input field to your browser’s default sans-serif font:

@-moz-document domain("old.lemmy.world") { .savecomment textarea { font-family: sans-serif; } }
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faythofdragons@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Your dad may have had something called “dysgraphia”, which is similar to dyslexia but affects spelling instead of reading.

I’ve got dyscalculia, which is similar to dyslexia, but has to do with numbers.

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  dysgraphia
  
  Had to look that up. It was more specifically Dyslexic Dysgraphia.
  
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fargeol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I just noticed you have different themes with different fonts in vanilla lemmy.world. It could be worth a shot to try them.

It’s in lemmy.world/settings --> Theme

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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Thanks! Off to try now, but it’ll take a couple of days to gather results, and I’m not being scientific about it, going on feels.
  
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cecilkorik@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
If you have any basic CSS/HTML knowledge and you’re using a firefox-based browser (or maybe it’s on other browsers too IDK) the addon Stylus allows you to easily create custom stylesheets for any site. It’s very powerful.

Something like:

body { font-family: "Your-Prefered-Fontname-Goes-Here"; }

is probably sufficient in most cases.
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- shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Nice! Yes, I can find my way around basic HTML and CSS. And yes, it’s also available for Chromium based browsers. Installed!
  
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