The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #154016   Message #3610999
Posted By: Bert
19-Mar-14 - 06:41 PM
Thread Name: Tech: A font for your song book.
Subject: RE: Tech: A font for your song book.
Jack, If I remember correctly, all of the dyslexic fonts were developed from Comic Sans.

I didn't purposely try any comparative tests, I just used it as my default font for a while and didn't think much about it until I was trying to find alternatives for my .css file. Then I noticed that the alternatives that I was looking at didn't seem so easy to read.

Leeneia, You would have to download it to your computer to be able to see it. There is nothing that I can do from this end. It is free so it would be worth a try.

As Jack says, the sentences are too long in your piece of text. Drop it into Notepad, set word wrap and then make your window narrower.

IanC, yes it is bottom heavy. As I said, it is a little unusual at first. I don't know if anything scientific has been done on dyslexic fonts. I would suspect that most of their development has been empirical. If you don't like it, don't use it.

Grishka, Yes that is a problem, especially for website developers. I use font-family: "OpenDyslexic", "Comic Sans MS", Arial; in my .css file. But as I said, the font must be on your machine for you to be able to see it.