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Honest question: what is a good font for dyslexic people?

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Another one is OpenDyslexic

https://opendyslexic.org/

Notice how parts of the letters are weighted. That helps with identifying which part of the letter is bottom.

And its monospace equivalent for coding is OpenDyslexicMono

As someone without dyslexia, I find that really difficult to read! I'm all for accessibility, but I personally wouldn't want this to be the default - would be great if users with dyslexia had the option to set it as their default though.

Tampermonkey should be able to enforce typefaces across websites: https://www.tampermonkey.net/

Hm, I do not have dyslexia either and I find it maybe a bit odd at first glance, but not difficult?

Is it maybe just a matter of getting used to it?

Otherwise sure, the bewt option would be probably for people to use their own font and make it easy to do so (@browsers)

Interesting! I haven't heard of something similar before. Does it help you to read?

Oh sorry I wasn't clear, I get these fonts for my coworker(s) who have accessibility issues, so I just listen to what they say. This open one was their current preference.

Surveys of the dyslexic population suggest that the crowd favorite is Dyslexie. Even a. Lot of dyslexics hate opendyslexic.

https://www.dyslexiefont.com/en/typeface/

Controversially: Comic Sans. It turns out to be very readable for short bits of text, especially for people with dyslexia.

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