Special Font for People with Dyslexia by Abelardo Gonzalez-(OpenDyslexic)

Dyslexia is a disease in which a person will have difficulty in reading and writing that experts say is caused by genetic factors. However, people with dyslexia have normal intelligence level or even above average, but with special care the barriers they experienced can be minimized.

Care about it Abelardo Gonzalez creates a special font that is easier to read by people with dyslexia, and will be a new method to help them. This font is called the OpenDyslexic designed to help people living with dyslexia to read more fluently, and interestingly this font brings open-source license, so you can download for free via their official website.

Display the letters in this special font looks thicker at the bottom, its intended the letters would look like having gravity. Because people with dyslexia often feel the letters, words and sentences often read like spun and scrambled themselves so they can not read properly. So through a special font that looks thicken at the bottom, expected letters to form words and sentences can be seen stable, so that people with dyslexia can read more easily.

The OpenDyslexic can be applied using Safari, Chrome, bookmarklet and web-browser applications that run with iOS, and like other font, the OpenDyslexic also provide regular style, bold, italic and bold-italic. The dyslexia level in every patient is different, so the effect is obtained if patients read fonts is also likely to be different, but for more details you can visit their official website or click this link.