This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.
An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.
It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Robert_Atkinson
Here's where you can read about the font and download it: https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont
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@DD @hildabast @tombofnull I've noticed there aren't symmetrical letters, but the weights of a character's trace aren't differentiated quite as heavily as in fonts to facilitate reading for dyslexics.
An example, comparing #AtkinsonHyperlegible with #BaskervaldADFStd fonts:
@albertcardona @DD @hildabast @tombofnull There's no peer reviewed evidence that the font characteristics of open dyslexic help fluent adult dyslexic readers and the evidence for dyslexic pre-reading kids shows no effect except perhaps a small one for learning letter shapes.
(Anecdotally, some dyslexic folks do prefer it.)
I think Atkinson Hyperlegible is a much better choice as it likely helps a much wider group of people.
@agvbergin @albertcardona @DD @hildabast @tombofnull Ann Bergin has said what I wanted to about the dyslexie fonts. John Richardson OU academic wrote a whole open access book on text readability and fonts https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-90984-0
And agree Atkinson Hyperlegible doesn't make it harder for most people to read, whereas dyslexie and clones can (me for example).
@agvbergin I came across it cos a friend of mine used to work with the author, who apparently died last year or something. I've read some of it, very interesting, very little about font-face and readability in the huge literature review. It's as much about size and things like line spacing.
I still think users should be able to fully reformat all text as they need as much as possible. EPUB is my friend.
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