Throughout the years, I have worked with numerous students who have struggled with Dyslexia. Reading and writing papers can be difficult due to their brains doing "funny" things to the letters they are working with. Recently, I read an interesting article regarding a new font geared towards assisting people with Dyslexia. The letters are weighted on the bottom to add some "gravity," and assist in keeping the letters in place to the reader. This font is free and can be found at http://dyslexicfonts.com/
The following paragraph is from the website:
OpenDyslexic is a new open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia. The typeface includes regular, bold, italic and bold-italic styles. It is being updated continually and improved based on input from dyslexic users. There are no restrictions on using OpenDyslexic outside of attribution.
I encourage you to share this website and font with any friends/family members that suffer from Dyslexia. I am curious if they will find it helpful or not. Based on the article and comments, trying it out looks to be worthwhile.
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