So I’ve been wondering about this, does this kind of font make reading easier immediately for you, or does it take a bit until you’ve gotten used to and, idk, learned the shapes of the individual letters, after which it’s then faster?
It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.
I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I’m like, ok wow I didn’t even notice how hard it was before 😂
That’s super interesting, and a funny personal story, thanks for sharing!
A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context
I mean, as far as I know that, plus the rough shape/outline of each word, is how fast non-dyslexic readers read in general, at least for common words, haha. Actually reading letter-by-letter is relatively rare
So I’ve been wondering about this, does this kind of font make reading easier immediately for you, or does it take a bit until you’ve gotten used to and, idk, learned the shapes of the individual letters, after which it’s then faster?
It was pretty immediate. I was like man this is ugly, but when I actually tried it, straight away I noticed it was extremely easier and faster to read and I made much less mistakes. Like normally I misread words and letters and numbers a lot and reread the same line over and over and words just look like identical blocky shapes. A lot of the time I actually just guess what word something is based on length and context, which kind of works but not really. But with that font I can read normally.
I only even realised I might have it and got it investigated when I accidentally changed the font to OpenDyslexic in Kindle because it was just there, and then I’m like, ok wow I didn’t even notice how hard it was before 😂
That’s super interesting, and a funny personal story, thanks for sharing!
I mean, as far as I know that, plus the rough shape/outline of each word, is how fast non-dyslexic readers read in general, at least for common words, haha. Actually reading letter-by-letter is relatively rare