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Comment by NelsonMinar

I'm uncomfortable with people publishing work like this without studies to back up whether they work for their intended audience. I'm sure the Braille Institute is expert in needs of low vision readers. And the design certainly looks promising. But AFAICT no one has studied whether this font is actually more readable. https://www.maxkohler.com/notes/2021-02-16-atkinson-hyperrea...

The mess with the popular-but-not-effective OpenDyslexic isn't good for anyone except publishers wanting to tick off an "accessibility" checkbox. (Thinking particularly of the library e-reader Axis360 which includes only two fonts; a bad regular font and a "dyslexia font". Neither are particularly readable IMHO.) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5629233/

parent NelsonMinar 4 years ago

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