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submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by rimu@piefed.social to c/piefed_meta@piefed.social

Go to https://piefed.social/user/settings and choose 'OpenDyslexia' in the Font setting, halfway down the form.

This font looks odd to me but I'm told that it really helps some people. If you're one of those people, please let me know if you have any preferences around letter spacing or line height, etc.

Edit: PieFed also has Atkinson Hyperledgible

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[-] JackbyDev@programming.dev 4 points 3 days ago

OMG! I was LITERALLY opening this post to comment "does anyone with dyslexia prefer Atkinson Hyperlegible?" I don't have dyslexia, but it looks better, so I'm always curious if that trade-off has consequences. Based on what you said about it being mild, I guess the question is missing context. I wasn't aware it had degrees.

[-] RougeEric@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm not an expert, but based on anecdotal evidence as well as what I was told by a specialist as a kid, Dyslexia technically is just the symptom of having difficulties with reading and/or writing. People will often have multiple "dys" conditions (not sure of the names in English, but difficulties speaking, with math/numbers, with orientation, with one's understanding of their position in space, etc.).

I forget why, but we often bunch all that together and put it under the dyslexia for ease of use when it concerns language/learning. And it's a clearly identified condition at that stage; that can be transmitted genetically (mostly by the father IIRC).

On one extreme, I've met people who could barely read at all, and were totally unable to write with a pen because of dyslexia; but I also know people who technically have common issues linked to it (slow reading, confusing similar letters, etc.) but would not qualify for a proper diagnosis because it is too mild to affect their life in an adverse way. So yeah, it's one of these things that falls on a spectrum.

As for OpenDyslexic, I find it too "wonky" and lopsided. It almost feels like the letters aren't sticking to their line. To be fair, that's how I write, but it doesn't mean I want to read wobbly text.

Atkinson Hyperlegible, on the other hand, helps a lot with things like l,p,q,i,j,I all having clear distinctions that help make words easier to understand.

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