[games_access] Fw: Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic Readers to Read? > (Barrie Ellis)

[Michelle Hinn]

Nice! Thanks for that link, Ian!

On Sun, Oct 7, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com> wrote:
> One more for you, this one uses the same weight principle as OpenDyslexia
> but also puts some FS Me style effort into individual letter shapes,
> punctuation, ascenders/descenders etc. This video is a nice illustration of
> what's lacking from OpenDyslexia -
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLtYFcHx7ec&feature=player_embedded#!
>
>
> Ian
>
>> From: games_access-request at igda.org
>> Subject: games_access Digest, Vol 105, Issue 12
>> To: games_access at igda.org
>> Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2012 10:00:06 -0400
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>> 1. Re: Fw: Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic Readers to Read?
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>> (Barrie Ellis) (Michelle Hinn)
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>> Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2012 21:28:09 +0100
>> From: Ian Hamilton <i_h at hotmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [games_access] Fw: Does This Font Truly Help Dyslexic
>> Readers to Read? (Barrie Ellis)
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>> A bit more on OpenDyslexic, it has been taken up by InstaPaper now, and a
>> school in the UK for dyslexic kids is giving it a trial run:
>> http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19734341
>> FS Me is a much nicer option, properly researched and tested, and designed
>> from the ground up too, compared to OD which tweaked a base font chosen due
>> to the licence terminology rather than readability, a base font that
>> had/still has issues with fundamentals like mirroring.
>> It's a real shame that FS Me has such an obscene pricetag, or we could
>> have seen things like the InstaPaper integration happen years ago. Mencap
>> wanted it to become a standard commonly used font, but that's simply never
>> going to happen at ?190 a go. The presentation here is worth looking through
>> if you have an interest in accessible type, explains some of the principles
>> behind FS Me (the same principles used in other similar fonts too):
>> http://issuu.com/fontsmith/docs/fs_me
>> Can only hope that the two things can learn from each other - OpenDyslexic
>> going beyond weight to get some more of the fine details right (I've
>> forwarded that FS Me doc on to OpenDyslexic's designer, so never know), and
>> FS Me being released for free.
>> Ian
>> > From: games_access-request at igda.org
>> > Subject: games_access Digest, Vol 105, Issue 9
>> > To: games_access at igda.org
>> > Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2012 10:00:07 -0400
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