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Old 08-30-2019, 09:51 PM   #31
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
Yes but that's just marketing. Sick marketing, but marketing.

Fonts for dyslexia almost always look very weird to others and cost a large amount to license yet don't have a single academic study demonstrating they work better than other sans-serif fonts. They look odd different because it makes people think that there must be a valid reason why the oddness was chosen.

The reality is dyslexia is very complex and what works well for one does not work as well for another, so someone with dyslexia needs the ability to change the fonts specified. Thus DRM that prevents altering the CSS is bad because some people need to be allowed to do just that in order to benefit from what they paid for.
Given what Amazon put into the creation of the first font--Caecilia--which was really ridiculous--I suspect that they put just as much effort into the font for Dyslexia. Either creating it, or licensing it, or research, or what-have-you.

Sure--maybe it doesn't work. But are you saying it never works? It doesn't suit anyone with dyslexia?

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