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Notes on dyslexia-friendly typography, reading research, and making the web easier to read.
Line height, letter spacing and word spacing move the needle for dyslexic readers more than font choice does — but only inside a narrow band of values. Here are the numbers to use, and the ones to avoid.
Bionic Reading bolds the first syllables of every word. OpenDyslexic redraws the letters themselves. They target different problems, and the evidence behind each is very different. A head-to-head, research-first comparison.
A ranked, evidence-led review of the five fonts most often recommended for dyslexic readers — OpenDyslexic, Lexend, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Comic Neue, and Sassoon Primary.
Five ways to override website fonts in Chrome — built-in settings, zoom, DevTools, Stylus user stylesheets, and dedicated accessibility extensions — compared.
Typography tweaks, reading rulers, tinted overlays, bionic reading, reader mode — an honest verdict on each, based on what the research and readers report.
What Irlen syndrome (visual stress) is, why paper overlays don't translate to monitors, and how to test screen tints in a browser.
Google's Lexend targets reading speed. The Braille Institute's Atkinson Hyperlegible targets character disambiguation. Here's how to choose — or use both.
Two opposite approaches to dyslexia-friendly reading. Here's how they compare, what the research says, and which one to try first.
How weighted letter bottoms help some dyslexic readers, and the right way to enable OpenDyslexic on every website.
Google's Lexend is built around reading-speed research. Here's what that research actually found — and how to try Lexend on every site.
The Braille Institute designed Atkinson Hyperlegible to disambiguate characters like 0 vs O, a vs o, I vs l. Here's how to use it as your default reading font.
The anecdotal love for Comic Sans among dyslexic readers has some basis. Here's what the research says — and why Comic Neue is probably a better choice.
