Unfortunately, the design process article is not in english, but I can tell you that he works
mainly around the words shapes (bouma shapes).

http://www.tercermundo.ws/jaguatelevisor/sarakanda-una-tipografia-para-ninos-y-ninas-con-dislexia

For Example – Sassoon is a useful font but it is VERY expensive to use. by the time the author, the typesetter, the proof reader and the printer have all bought the font family the cost of producing the book has gone up significantly even when spread across several books. This makes the cost of the book to the end user much more than it really should be. A free font like Delicious can make a big contribution towards keeping the cost of specialist books down so that everyone can afford them. I will be evaluating Delicious in the near future.

One problem we do have is that there are very few readable fonts that contain diacriticals and mathematical symbols (especially fractions). This severly restricts the fonts we can use when typesetting maths books and books that teach reading skills and pronuciation. To the best of my knowledge there is no one readable font that contains both that would be readily available to all sections of the publishing industry and, most importantly, available on most school computers. Is this something that a group like this one could look at and do something about? if so you would find that the community that deals with dyslexia and related problems would be very grateful indeed.

The project still has my attention, but I think I will continue with somewhere next year.

I am a person who has shape dyslexia and I teach school now.

pbdq 52 5S 2S 3E 35 68 69 1l 49. These were difficult for me.

I tend to use Verdana set to at least 10 with slight character expansion and Kerning for fonts over 8 pt turned on. This takes care of the character spacing and word spacing issues. I turn off auto-hyphenation and NEVER use align to Justify just to Left.

Something that has not been mentioned, but it is very hard for high school readers to read columns more than a few inches wide and the margins need to be empty or they are distracting. Many students have worked so hard at ignoring images in the perceived margin areas of texts that they cannot see them even when they are specifically looking for them on the page. Many prefer reading magazines because the columns are not as wide and the pictures are in predictable places. Less fatigue.

I was never told I had a reading problem. I liked to read so I learned to overcome it. I learned to underline words that I was having difficulty with so I could orient the pbdq to the line and to the word. A pencil or other straight edge helped when I couldn’t use underlining. Phonics is useless but learning word syllables as they put them in the American Heritage Dictionary really helped me to get word shapes and their various forms into a clearer view. I could make sense of Un-clear-ly, for example, because I could see and learn to recognize the three parts.

Trebuchet, Helvitica, Arial, Comic Sans, and verdana are the ones I tend to work with, but adjust with Kerning and spacing. When I am writing computer programs or I am using something that has lots of numbers in it, I like to use Comic Sans because there is no doubt what each number and letter is.

Some interesting stuff you should know about shape dyslectics. We can often manipulate shapes in 3D, rotate images, note mirrors and non-mirrors. People who have overcome their shape dyslexia with techniques are able to spot CO 8B differences on those IQ tests and many can do those foldup or next in a series shapes very easily… so look out for children and adults who appear to have difficulty or avoid reading or writing but can easily play video games or find those hidden objects, etc. For little folks in avoidance… Flash cards are great for learning word shapes but only if they can lay them out and compare and contrast the word shapes when they study. Playing games with fonts on the computer helps them to identify the key features of letters regardless of font.

My vote is for Verdana and Comic Sans because they work on PCs and Macs. But mostly it is about spacing…

Thanks for your time. Hope this helps people who are doing the search…
Lucidus

so, i contacted the person who designed it… and it’s not available.

arghhh!!!!