Wobblegong

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Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 8:43 AM

I will award myself some credit for checking a list of dyslexia-friendly fonts and noting that the first one was "designed for dyslexic readers" and the second one was described the same but with Open in the name and guessed "this means the first one is paywalled to the moon and back, huh?"

I was right. Unfortunately.

I think the second one, OpenDyslexic, is cuter though. The consistency of the heavier weighting towards the bottom is adorable and charming just from an aesthetic perspective. And if it makes reading easier, GOOD!

#sharing a thing I found #I am not dyslexic in the slightest #I just think accessibility is neat

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Nire Bryce @NireBryce1/1/2024, 9:15 AM

imo Lexia Readable is the most useable one, and it's free for personal use

Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 9:27 AM

Oohoo, another good one! I quite like the open b/p/6, that's a clever idea.

Nire Bryce @NireBryce1/1/2024, 9:29 AM

it feels the least distracting of the ones i've tried, and the most helpful for my kind of dyslexia (or, rather, it means reading it is less fatiguing from subconscious coping mechanisms)

Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 9:42 AM

Nodnodnod! I can imagine, it definitely feels very simple– not just literally sans serif but spiritually sans serif too, if that makes sense. But still has those tweaks! I'm impressed just from a "making a font to do what you want" design angle.

Anyways, thanks for the lead, into my collection it goes! :eggbug-devious:

Nire Bryce @NireBryce1/1/2024, 9:49 AM

yeah np. a lot of critique of these fonts are from non-dyslexic people who don't get that there can be multiple kinds, though, which means its hard to figure out in the first place even if you knew all of them

Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 9:50 AM

Actually if I can ask you a brief favor (you're free to decline or ignore, all good!) everyone mentions Comic Sans being pretty decent for dyslexic readers, but I fell down the hole that led to this post because I was wondering if anyone's checked Comic Neue. I assume it's nothing special, and the display website is... definitely not geared as dyslexia sampler (sigh) but if your dyslexia has any opinions about Comic Neue I'd be interested to hear! (Reason for asking: it's one of my "default" fonts and so I'm curious.)

Nire Bryce @NireBryce1/1/2024, 9:58 AM

I don't have strong dyslexia, or I have surprisingly good coping mechanisms, so I'm not really the one to ask.

as a child opendyslexic probably would help the most of the ones I've used, which is uhhhh the old ones. lexia was the most recent when I last checked.

Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 9:58 AM

All good, ty!

Joy @ahoyitsjoy1/1/2024, 9:43 AM

IDK why but I have a a hard time with Open Dyslexic which is a real bummer because a lot of VNs pick that as the only alternative font option. I'm not dyslexic but it's just harder for me to parse somehow? Makes me read a lot slower. I would rather have Comic Sans which I hear works well for a lot of dyslexic people. Too bad about the popular associations it has.

Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 9:46 AM

Dumb question I can guess the answer to but Comic Neue is perfectly normal for you to read, yeah?

Joy @ahoyitsjoy1/1/2024, 9:54 AM

It's just this side of "ok." It's a bit on the thin side which makes the fact that "a" and "d" and such have almost precisely the same roundness look weird. I like it much better bolded, which I guess brings it closer to Comic Sans.

Wobblegong @wobblegong1/1/2024, 9:59 AM

Neat! Thank you for your feedback. 👍🏽

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