Earlier this year we wrote about the new font, OpenDyslexic, which is an open source font designed to make reading easier for people with dyslexia.
But there is an older font designed for the same purpose: Dyslexie.
Though it is not an open source font like OpenDyslexic, it is free for home-users (schools and businesses pay a small fee) and worth looking at.
OpenDyslexic and Dyslexie websites are written in their respective fonts, so it may be worthwhile sitting down with your child at the computer and comparing the websites to see which (or if either) is good for your child.
Both fonts use a similar system of weighting letters to make it difficult for the mind to make accidental rotations and reversals and spacing to make each individual word stand out.
Rebecca Brink, in reviewing fonts for people with dyslexia, asserts that Dyslexie may be the best. She states, “OpenDyslexic is a little thick and Lexia Readable is a little choppy to apply as a standard font for a shared computer, whereas Dyslexie resembles standard fonts a little more. If the point is to help families supporting a family member who has dyslexia, Dyslexie would be the easiest for everyone to embrace in a web browser.”