The 'read regular' may be the font you mean Jack - I always use Verdana myself - and I thought it was because I just liked it :)

Yes, Read Regular was it. When I looked, it was hard to see how to get it any price.

I have not-too-great vision, probably typical of somebody aged 60 who's shortsighted and has done a heck of a lot of reading. So, I did some experiments with the same text printed in different fonts and found that what worked best for me was Palatino for ordinary text (research papers, in my case) and Comic Sans for song lyrics - the latter suggested by a local folkie, I'd never have thought of it. Is Comic Sans generally acceptable for dyslexics?

How does Gill Sans do? Is it too symmetrical?

I don't have dyslexia but I have had a few episodes of severe depression, which have always been heralded by a long period of wobbly vision, like seeing through a close-up heat haze, with a sensation like tremors in my eyeballs. An immediate effect of the antidepressants I was on (trazodone, venlafaxine) was that my vision suddenly went steady, things didn't swim around and shimmer any more. The effect was so striking it made me wonder if low-dose antidepressants might fix some dyslexia syndromes in the absence of depression.