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alt="" height="74" width="152">We'd venture a
guess that not many librarians give a great deal
of thought to fonts, even though a typeface is
such an integral part of reading. On the other
hand, a lot of librarians are concerned about
making information accessible to everyone, and
there are fonts that are specifically designed to
make reading easier for people with dyslexia -
reportedly about 5-10% of us. One of these fonts,
OpenDyslexic, has been in the tech news lately
primarily because it has no licensing fee and is
free for anyone to use. That makes it very
affordable for books and popular reading devices
like e-readers and smartphones.
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.dailytech.com/First+Free+Digital+Font+Optimized+for+Dyslexics+Arrives/article27801.htm">First
free digital font optimized for dyslexics
arrives</a> (DailyTech/Jason Mick) "Curiously
some dyslexic individuals visual processing
cortexes rotate images that look slender, making
characters appear backwards or upside down. By
making the bottom look 'heavier' the font
reportedly reduces <a
href="http://www.dailytech.com/Brain+Imaging+Technique+May+Predict+a+Dyslexic+Childs+Ability+to+Improve+Reading+Skills/article20467.htm">this
kind of visual 'bug'</a> in the brains of
people with this disability. Mr. Gonzalez wasn't
the first to use this trick, he explained, but
he was the first font designer to make an
affordable version."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://bdatech.org/what-technology/typefaces-for-dyslexia/">Typefaces
for dyslexia</a> (British Dyslexia Association
New Technologies Committee) "Some dyslexic
people have expressed strong feelings about
typefaces, but there is no agreement apart from
saying it should be sans serif. [...] We asked
dyslexia forum members. Only a few people
responded. So it may not be a burning issue for
most dyslexic people. It is likely that line
length, line spacing and font size are just as
important."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-free-font-dyslexia.html">New
free font available to help those with
dyslexia</a> (Medical Xpress/Bob Yirka) "Once
it was suggested that using bottom-heavy fonts
might help with dyslexia, font developers rushed
to create their own versions, hoping to
capitalize on licensing fees. Gonzalez decided a
better approach would be to design a font from
scratch, and then make it free to anyone that
wants to use it. And, that's exactly what he's
done. Gonzalez' hope is that OpenDyslexic
differs enough from other fonts on the market to
prevent litigation efforts from removing it from
the public domain."</li>
<li style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19734341">OpenDyslexic
font gains ground with help of Instapaper</a>
(BBC News/Leo Kelion) "However, the inclusion of
the font in Instapaper last week is perhaps the
clearest sign yet that it is going mainstream.
The program - which allows users to save
versions of webpages so that they can be read
offline - has about two million registered
accounts. The app's developer Marco Arment said
he had first looked for a dyslexia-optimised
font two years ago, but had failed to find one
until he discovered OpenDyslexic."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Fonts
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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<div style="text-align: justify; font-size: 16px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">If you're
curious about <em>non-free</em> fonts for
dyslexics, take a look at <a
href="%20http://www.studiostudio.nl/en/project-dyslexie/en/">Dyslexie</a>
($69), <a
href="http://www.pixelscript.net/gilldyslexic/">Gill
Dyslexic</a> ($20), or <a
href="http://www.robsfonts.com/sylexhome.html">Sylexiad</a>
(£56).
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