You must log in or # to comment.
Atkinson Hyperlegible Next from the Braille Institute
Thanks. Had never heard of this one.
you can change fonts on ebooks?
Gentium Book, Alegreya, or Labrada. Humanist serif fonts for reading Fantasy and SciFi. Absolutely love them, can’t recommend these enough.
I prefer a helv variant usually, but now that it’s under fire I’m trying out colibri.
Since the first time of seeing it on a Mac (Plus, probably), I’ve been in love with Palatino. It just seems to flow so nicely, and the italic is gorgeous.
I missed it for many years until I found TeX Gyre Pagella.
OpenDyslexic. I used to hate reading. Read one and a half books this year. Also 3 novella’s. For fun! I never read for fun. Usually just programming books to get my feet wet before jumping into documentation. Never an entire book cover to cover unless Im obsessed enough.
I was sceptical but it really does help.
but it really does help
depends on the person and symptoms. I was the opposite of sceptical, but when I tried it, I was super disappointed, because reading suddenly became MUCH more difficult.
The non-open dyslexiefont is what helped me. Even though the differences seem minor.
But the best solution for me is modern TTS while reading along.
I also sometimes does TTS while reading along, but most of the time I’m doing it it just means I should get some rest instead of forcing more focus (AuDHD).
Is there any science in this? I believe this might just be a preference. :D
As i understand it we dyslexic people read more in blocks of words among other issues with order of letters and or sounds. Easily two words can become confused with each other if the look enough alike. Take defiantly and definitely, two words I often mistake for one another and often have trouble spelling individually. The dyslexic font has more spacing between letters which helps a ton.
If you want to know more about dyslexia
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/dyslexia/symptoms-causes/syc-20353552
And here is some research related to dyslexia from the openDyslexic website
I’ve used that font on an ereader for more then a year, then switched to something else and noticed no difference at all.
I’ve also seen research claiming that it does not help at all, so idk.
I just tried a few fonts on my old Kobo, as I’ve done a few times here and there, and I always end up back with a serif font. I’m not sure why, but I have suspicion that reading paperbacks and newspapers before ereaders existed has trained me to read faster with serif fonts.
Literata and Bitter Pro are the ones I switch between on my kobo.
Times New Roman
/not allowed to say anything else or my boat will be sunk.
Comic Sans
Usually whatever the default serif typeface is. What I care more about is flush left (“ragged right”) alignment, ideally with automatic hyphenation. I find justified alignment very distracting.
Currently using Noto Sans in koreader
Lexend Deca from https://www.lexend.com/ because it’s the only font I could find which was studied during it’s creation for being more readable for many people.
Vollkorn. The best I could find.
The specific font isn’t as important for me. Mostly I’ll use whatever sans serif option is available in the reader, since I generally despise serifs. Very occasionally I’ll go for a serif font on a fantasy book for “atmosphere”, though.
Copperplate Gothic.
Just kidding, I don’t have one but would love some suggestions.
Everyone seems to go crazy for Atkinson Hyperlegible
Somehow I, actually, find this font hard to read. o.O
