Special Dyslexia Fonts Are Based on Voodoo Pseudoscience

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By John GruberDec 12, 2025, 1:37 pm95 pts
Youki Terada, writing for Edutopia in 2022 (via Jens Kutílek): Under close scrutiny, the evidence for dyslexia-friendly fonts falls apart. In a 2017 study, for example, researchers tested whether OpenDyslexic, a popular font with thicker lines near the bottom of the letters, could improve the reading rate and…

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