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[–] 34 points 11 months ago (9 children)

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.

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago* (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Is there any science in this? I believe this might just be a preference. :D

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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

    https://opendyslexic.org/related-research

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    [–] 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    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.

    Problems with justification » Typographic anomalies

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  • [–] 15 points 10 months ago

    http://vollkorn-typeface.com/ And I’m surprised that no one mentioned it yet

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Atkinson Hyperlegible Next from the Braille Institute

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    you can change fonts on ebooks?

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago

    Gentium Book, Alegreya, or Labrada. Humanist serif fonts for reading Fantasy and SciFi. Absolutely love them, can't recommend these enough.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Copperplate Gothic.

    Just kidding, I don't have one but would love some suggestions.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Libertinus Serif is my current favorite. I generally like most garamond-likes for most books, but will dabble in a sans if the book is suitably scifi. Older favorites of mine are Adobe Caslon Pro and Adobe Devanagari. Baumschrift is a fantastic clean sans font but honestly it shines best on larger sizes for headers rather than prose. If we are doing monospace I love IBM Plex Mono in the light variety.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    Faustina, it's the FOSS alternative to the Kindle's default font.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago

    Literata and Bitter Pro are the ones I switch between on my kobo.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    nztt.

    Made it myself.

    Works for my dyslexia, and efficient for vertical space.

    It divides opinion, some very enthusiastic, some hate it.

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    Roboto, Droid, Dejavu, Liberation. Only Sans Serif.

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    Vollkorn. The best I could find.

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  • [–] 2 points 10 months ago

    Atkinson hyperledgable. Made by the RNIB.

    I'm visually impaired and it really helps.

    It is also a good font in general for easy reading.

    There is also a next version. Little more modern looking and a mono version.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Baskerville, or Jokerman if I fancy an aneurism.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    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.

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    Currently using Noto Sans in koreader

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    [–] 2 points 11 months ago

    Yes.

    TL;DR: I don't actually know, that's how much I care.

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    For me, Trebuchet goes straight to my brain. There are plenty of fonts that look nicer to me, but that's the one that I settled on after trying out dozens. I read it faster, I don't lose my place, it works equally well for me at several font sizes and on both traditional ebook readers and tablet screens.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Any serif font is fine by me. I've been going with whatever Zathura's default epub font is.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I prefer a helv variant usually, but now that it's under fire I'm trying out colibri.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I use DejaVu on my phone. Maybe computer, too. I can't check right now; it's out of commission.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago

    Shantell Sans

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    I like latin modern/computer modern in general for papers.I'm no ebook reader hence I can't recommend one for that specifically

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