On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 6:58 PM, Moore, Nathan T <[email protected]> wrote: > I was embarrassed to read this morning that Comic Sans is actually a > preferred font for people with dyslexia. > > > https://theestablishment.co/hating-comic-sans-is-ableist-bc4a4de87093#.hfd8ctajb > > (1) Have you heard of this research result? Is it reliable? >
This has been a popular idea for a long time, I did a teaching qualification in 2002 and it was mentioned then. Like many things I was taught about teaching, the research is *not* that reliable. Apparently Comic Sans tended to be favoured because is was sans serif, and therefore less fiddly and confusing to look at, not because it had any magical qualities of its own. This paper looks like a reasonable study: http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/sites/default/files/good_fonts_for_dyslexia_study.pdf > (2) Is a font like http://opendyslexic.org/ a good idea to have as a > rendering option for the carpentry materials/tutorials? Is Jekyll capable > of multiple fonts in response to a button click, toggle, etc? > This I don't know, but it sounds like a sensible thing to look at. Sarah -- Dr. Sarah Mount, Research Associate, King's College London: http://soft-dev.org/ Fellow of the Software Sustainability Institute: http://software.ac.uk/ twitter: @snim2 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss
