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OpenDyslexic font gains ground
with help of Instapaper
BBC News [UK], by Leo Kelion
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Posted By:Attercliffe, 10/7/2012 5:55:43 AM
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| A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour. OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers. A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as an option for its users. The font has also been built into a word processor, an ebook reader and has been installed on school computers. The project was created by Abelardo Gonzalez, a New Hampshire-based mobile app designer, who released his designs onto the web at the end
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Comments:
Now this young man genuinely deserves a Nobel.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Sfacheem, 10/7/2012 6:40:22 AM (No. 8915354)
Ah, Dyslexia. Another condition that exists once for every 1,000 people who claim to have it. My sons go to high school with about 500 peanut-allergic dyslexic asthmatics with ADHD.
It's a wonderful world.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
JLoophole, 10/7/2012 6:41:11 AM (No. 8915356)
So interesting! What a gift.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 10/7/2012 7:01:19 AM (No. 8915375)
The government needs to take this over. The private sector cannnot run this app inefficiently.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
901AtTheRiver, 10/7/2012 7:13:33 AM (No. 8915386)
Wow, there really is a dog.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
object_distance, 10/7/2012 7:15:42 AM (No. 8915388)
#1 you forgot vegans, lactose intolerance, glutin intolerance, and conservatism intolerance.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
uno, 10/7/2012 8:11:18 AM (No. 8915464)
Dyslexics have more nuff!
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
K620, 10/7/2012 8:19:03 AM (No. 8915478)
Guys, it's a font, for heaven's sake! A very readable font. Some people like Times New Roman, some Arial. This is another. And if it's more readable, I say hooray. (No one's asking for a special accomodation or claiming victim status). I saw the font in an article before and it really is exceptionally readable. Kudos to its developer.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Garage Logician, 10/7/2012 8:35:55 AM (No. 8915510)
Endorsed by Sir Mix A Lot, and I can not lie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Truthfetish, 10/7/2012 8:59:18 AM (No. 8915546)
Endorsed by the D A M. (Mothers Against Dyslexia) .
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ROLFnader, 10/7/2012 9:02:10 AM (No. 8915550)
I agree with #1 -the actual number of people with lysdexia is way overblown.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
tren9, 10/7/2012 9:13:48 AM (No. 8915576)
What does the word lexdiskic mean?
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Rather Read, 10/7/2012 9:15:59 AM (No. 8915578)
I work in education. A few years ago, dyslexia was all the rage. There were books and papers a-plenty published about it. Then dyslexia dropped off the radar to be replaced by ADHD. There were books, papers, conferences etc about this. Then ADHD dropped off to be replaced by bullying as the latest ecucation cause du jour.
What's next? Who knows. But education is very prone to taking up causes/fads and running them then losing interest.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 10/7/2012 9:17:29 AM (No. 8915583)
As a lifelong disnumismic (can't remember numbers), I have developed a new system of numbers which are more flexible than the existing ones. Just as the meaning of the language has been changed for political purposes, the number system has now been re-defined to remove that hard edged and troublesome notion that some answers are more correct than others.
I am now a tax accountant.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
mossley, 10/7/2012 9:27:51 AM (No. 8915600)
Am I the only one who thinks this looks like something from the 70s? That type of font was over the place back then.
And, yes, dyslexia is a horrible condition - for the people that honestly have it. It's a label now given to people who are too dumb or lazy to learn to spell. It's okay to have a medical condition, but heaven forbid you tell a parent their kid isn't a future Einstein!
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
angelesgift, 10/7/2012 9:31:46 AM (No. 8915605)
This is a great help, but I hope it remains an option for those who need it and not standard type. Did you guys read the brief article to the right using the font? It was annoying to me, because I don't have dyslexia and I'm used to reading very fast, and skimming. It forced me to read slower, which is the point, I suppose. Interesting how the brain works.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kayjaymac, 10/7/2012 9:39:30 AM (No. 8915618)
Now, if only there was a cure for insomnia. I am sick of lying awake all night wondering if there is a dog.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
retCPO, 10/7/2012 10:34:50 AM (No. 8915721)
To call this a Gonzalez "invention" seems to me to mock real inventors as it would seem that he found the intellectual property of someone else too "expensive" and just ripped it off.
Off course it is just plain wrong to some that anyone could enrich themselves from something that others could benefit others.
That is where the evil "rich" come from, so it is OK to rip them off.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
chance_232, 10/7/2012 11:19:14 AM (No. 8915818)
Good stuff!
Now.....If I can figure out a way to control my verbal dyslexia. 
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
mickturn, 10/7/2012 11:25:46 AM (No. 8915832)
Great news...now the PC crowd will trash it because it doesn't work with Eubonics.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
toddh, 10/7/2012 12:22:56 PM (No. 8915954)
I have a latent dyslexia that becomes full-blown when I take Sudafed or even ma huang. I've known people who have it all the time and marvel at the ingenious ways they handle it.
I hope this font looks better than it's rendering on my W7 box! He's at the point where he needs test subjects and a professional font designer.
#14 - It's a bell-bottom font ;-)
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Rumblehog, 10/7/2012 3:03:29 PM (No. 8916234)
... waiting for all ballots and passports to be written in this font. /s
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
KTWO, 10/7/2012 3:20:28 PM (No. 8916266)
#1 and #5 are, I suspect, half joking.
But the number of people with such afflictions will soon exceed the number of people on Earth. Or so we will be told.
What gets subsidized (rewarded) increases. And often getting categorized as X brings favors.
#7 adds perspective. It is a font, if it is easier to read then fine. No need to get crazy.
#13 will do well in our nonjudgmental society and may run the Bureau Of The Budget someday.
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