Let’s say I REALLY don’t want dyslexic people reading my post. What font would be the most troublesome font for them to read?

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Why??

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This is No Stupid Questions, right? Just as a thought exercise, perhaps?

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Step 1) Find all the design elements gone into the creation of dyslexia fonts, and invert those. Use ChatGPT maybe

Step 2) Find a font matching the invertion

Sorry I’m too lazy to do it myself

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I’m not dyslexic, so I’m just going off assumptions here. Dyslexic fonts often have bold parts that make them easy to tell apart at a glance. So something that’s very homogenous with a bunch of straight vertical lines that create a very even look might perform particularly poor with people with dyslexia. So some kind of geometric sans-serif font.

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I gave it a try on this comment.

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Comic sans is famously very hard to read because of its inconsistent kerning, inconsistent letter features and general bad design.

Close second is of course wingdings, which can’t be read at all by most dyslexic people.

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Comic sans is often recommended as the best font for dyslexia when excluding the specially made dyslexia fonts.

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I’ve always Senn the opposite but I may be mistaken. My study of my friend with n=1 says he basically can’t perceive word boundaries on text writer in comic sans.

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Yeah, kinda baffeling for them to call out Comic sans in particular when it’s well known for being surprisingly good for people with dyslexia despite it’s otherwise pretty poor reputation.

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Dang, I was going to say wingdings as a smartass answer!

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I’d bet this is basically impossible but I’m not dyslexic so I can’t verify. https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator

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I’d bet this is basically impossible but I’m not dyslexic so I can’t verify. https://lingojam.com/GlitchTextGenerator

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