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cranioscopical:
This seems pretty nifty - Open Dyslexic fonts-Renegade (October 08, 2012, 08:28 AM)
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The more work that's done in this area the better and it seems a good, logical approach.
That said, trying to read the font myself threatens to incur an almost instant headache. It reminds me of printed output from the very early days of DTP.

40hz:
This seems pretty nifty - Open Dyslexic fonts-Renegade (October 08, 2012, 08:28 AM)
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The more work that's done in this area the better and it seems a good, logical approach.
That said, trying to read the font myself threatens to incur an almost instant headache. It reminds me of printed output from the very early days of DTP.
-cranioscopical (October 09, 2012, 04:13 PM)
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+1 on both points.

I keep wishing they'd change the ribbon. Because to my eyes, the one they're using looks used up. :)

tomos:
This seems pretty nifty - Open Dyslexic fonts-Renegade (October 08, 2012, 08:28 AM)
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The more work that's done in this area the better and it seems a good, logical approach.
That said, trying to read the font myself threatens to incur an almost instant headache. It reminds me of printed output from the very early days of DTP.
-cranioscopical (October 09, 2012, 04:13 PM)
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have you seen the fonts linked by vrgrrl?
They actually look quite nice.
(One of them is almost exactly the same as the one Ren posted, but otherwise...)

cranioscopical:
have you seen the fonts linked by vrgrrl?
They actually look quite nice.
-tomos (October 09, 2012, 04:35 PM)
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I did look, and I agree with you.

40hz:
Interesting series of posts by Dave Collier focusing on this type of font thinking. Link here.

The author is skeptical of some of the arguments and claims for what is currently being presented as dyslexic-friendly typography. (vrgrrl's comments seem to coincide with what Collier is saying in places.)

The Font Bullies
A Little Knowledge, and They’re Off! – August 2012

Why should anyone whose job it isn’t feel they need to be an expert in fonts (typefaces)? But they do, and there is something telling about it. I have yet to quite work out what, but I have some hypotheses.

The so-called Dyslexia Style Guide from the Dyslexia Association gives something of a clue as to what is going on, for it is not just fonts that are pontificated upon here, but a whole raft of things that the writer has learned a little bit about, and obviously thinks they are now the world’s expert on. And instead of coming over as expert, they sound to anyone who actually does know a little bit more about these topics as rather a joke, like the bloke on the bar stool who knows all there is to know about everything. And sadly, like the man on the bar stool, there are people out there prepared to believe this rubbish.

Rubbish? Who says so? Well, OK then, bad science, or unsupported assertions; assertions for which the evidence seems to be either that someone I know who knows about these things said so, or I tried it with my some of my students/patients/clients/mother and they liked it – classic bar stool.
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Just for some background on the author of the above:

My specialist area of academic study has been the interaction between people and computer screen displays, and I got a masters degree in that, after studying for some time in the psychology department of London Guildhall University, as it was then called.
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