What fonts are easiest to read?

February 19th, 2010

Hi Dawn,

Just a quick question for you. Which of the fonts that are generally available on computers are easiest for you to read? We would like to make all our marketing material as user friendly as possible for our clients and I presume that what works well for you would work well for other dyslexics.

I know that you were very impressed with the Nessy font but I don’t think that is generally available.

Hi,
Did a survey ion this last year. asked about 100 dyslexics and gave them a choice of the ones the committee liked best.

The ones that people liked best were the simple fonts with wide spaced letters.
I print my sites etc in arial,and my books are a now a combination of arial and bradley hand bradley hand. However the preferred fonts were those with a proper round “a” but there are no generic ones so sites cannot be made out them.

Comic sans was the most popular followed by bradley hand and the arial. If you expand the letters and put 2 spaces between every word it makes it much easier for dyslexics to read. Also bigger letters are better, and short lines.

hope this helps
cheers
dawn

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