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?
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.
Why??
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.
Pretty sure 2 is just myth. My kids are 8 and 10 both learned / are learning cursive in public school.
That’s an awful reason to want dyslexic unfriendly fonts. I figured it was because dyslexic fonts are hard to read if you’re not dyslexic, I’m not dyslexic so I hate those fonts with a passion, especially when you’re not given a choice as to whether or not they’re used like when Twitter briefly used a dyslexic font on the whole site. That was a nightmare!
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 gave it a try on this comment.
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.
