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This is very anecdotal naturally. But I am a dyslexic and it was really a struggle for me as a little kid. I don't like reading very much because it is a frustrating endeavor. I like information, I like thinking, and I guess I have favored smaller condensed pieces when reading. Perhaps why I love this website

I can attest though that upon seeing the paragraph written at the end of the video that the text was much easier to read. I was really quite blown away with it. I'm all for this, and really hope it can get spread around.

I don't think you can make someone who is not a reader become one. But I think like anyone who can't do something by a limitation when it is removed you have a new found respect for what you didn't have. It may not be a big market, but trust me there is a market here.

I'm going to download all of these on every part of my system that I can tonight.

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I don't understand why/how some of the changes they've made would help dyslexics immediately. Perhaps you could explain.

It seems like most of the changes were arbitrary (e.g. rotation, making the lower parts bolder) and designed to make two otherwise similar characters distinct. Wouldn't that require a learning period, to figure out which characters were changed in which ways? If you don't know (reflexively from memory) whether they rotated the `i` or the `j`, the rotation won't help anything.

In the video, they explain it as embracing the conception of the letters as being 3d objects. The added weight in the lower parts would intuitively anchor that letter in that orientation. Perhaps a 'j' should be tilted due to its asymmetry.

As for my $.02, I think the mix-ups often occur in real-time due to proximity. Making the symbols distinct would perhaps lessen the likelihood that the brain will try to identify those conceptual objects as a unity when they are near one another.

As a non-dyslexic, I was surprised how much easier this font was to read. Do you see a link to the typeface?

it felt very natural, and, being non-dyslexic as well, i caught myself waiting for it to become dyslexic distorted...

I don't have much trouble with reading text but I am prone to transposing digits when I read numbers (particularly long numbers such as phone numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers). I wonder if there is a sub-type of dyslexia that is limited to numbers?

Dyscalculia. I've known other people have that same problem too; thankfully it's more annoying than demoralising like dyslexia can be.

Ah ah ah! I am Count Dyscalculia. I vont to suck your cerebral cortex.

Oh good, I'm not the only one that thought that!

I occasionally transpose digits but I'm pretty sure I don't have dyscalculia (I have a degree in math).

Do you find it easier or harder to read under fluorescent lamps?

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