Let’s say I REALLY don’t want dyslexic people reading my post. What font would be the most troublesome font for them to read?
I’m dyslexic. Just use big words, any font that doesn’t have distinct features will do.
Jerk.
I don’t know of any explicitely intentional dyslexic-unfriendly fonts, but from what I read on Adding A Dyslexia-Friendly Mode To A Website — Smashing Magazine, thin narrow fonts with ligatures should be good candidates, some examples I found from a quick search:
Ohh yes, the 2nd one is especially malicious. Perfect!
That one’s hard for me to read and I’m not even dyslexic!
I am dyslexic. Feel like I’d have an easier time reading a barcode!
It looks like a barcode to me, but sadly i suck at reading barcodes.
These are just generally unreadable
Psilograph-Thin
Wow, I am not dyslectic, but my eyes hurt when I read that font!
1 - be nice to people with disabilities. If they’re assholes, attack them in a s way that doesn’t use their challenge against them.
2- if they’re under 30, just handwrite it in traditional cursive.
I’m over 30 and I wouldn’t be able to read 90% of anyone’s cursive. Nobody actually writes it the way it was taught; they just scribble.
Pretty sure 2 is just myth. My kids are 8 and 10 both learned / are learning cursive in public school.
Not in my area.
What area if I can ask? I’m in the Midwest.
Texas.
I’m under 30 and learned cursive growing up. Only use it for writing letters to my mom though.
The kids of my cousins are all under 20 and about half learned cursive in school.
(I have 31 cousins by blood and collectively they have 36 kids, all in the US)
Why??
This is No Stupid Questions, right? Just as a thought exercise, perhaps?
Step 1) Find all the design elements gone into the creation of dyslexia fonts, and invert those. Use ChatGPT maybe
Step 2) Find a font matching the invertion
Sorry I’m too lazy to do it myself
I’m not dyslexic, so I’m just going off assumptions here. Dyslexic fonts often have bold parts that make them easy to tell apart at a glance. So something that’s very homogenous with a bunch of straight vertical lines that create a very even look might perform particularly poor with people with dyslexia. So some kind of geometric sans-serif font.
I gave it a try on this comment.
Wingdings/webdings.
It’s unfriendly to everyone.
Tall skinny letters that almost look stretched. Maybe “Impact” on steroids
aha, here’s one I downloaded for one job that I do not remember and which I have to assume would be absolutely horrendous for dyslexic people
It’s absolutely horrendous for everyone who tries to read whatever is written in it, no matter if you are good at it or not.
Thank you I’m in pain already
Thank you I’m in pain already
That’s captcha
Just the dark goat of the woods and her kids
Why do you hate them so much???
I’d bet this is basically impossible but I’m not dyslexic so I can’t verify. https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator
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Considering how easy it is to set up a screen reader or to set an overriding font on most browsers, this seems like an exercise in futility. That said, something like mssystem ought to do it – standardized, block-style typeface, with little to differentiate the individual letters.
I’d bet this is basically impossible but I’m not dyslexic so I can’t verify. https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator
Comic sans is famously very hard to read because of its inconsistent kerning, inconsistent letter features and general bad design.
Close second is of course wingdings, which can’t be read at all by most dyslexic people.
Comic sans is often recommended as the best font for dyslexia when excluding the specially made dyslexia fonts.
I’ve always Senn the opposite but I may be mistaken. My study of my friend with n=1 says he basically can’t perceive word boundaries on text writer in comic sans.
Yeah, kinda baffeling for them to call out Comic sans in particular when it’s well known for being surprisingly good for people with dyslexia despite it’s otherwise pretty poor reputation.
Dang, I was going to say wingdings as a smartass answer!
Definitely Raleway in Thin 100 weight, or Helvetica Neue in 25 Ultra Light weight.
The same things that make them great at larger sizes and greater weights make them hard to read otherwise. Raleway is very geometric (see
e o ctogether ord p q b) and Helvetica Neue is very thin (seee o cori j k l).Raleway is such a beautiful font when you look at samples of it, but boy is reading longer Raleway texts tiring!
