[olug] Open Source Font for Dyslexia

[Jeff Hinrichs]

Thanks for sharing!  I know people who might benefit from this work.

Best,
Jeff Hinrichs
On Dec 29, 2012 2:46 AM, "Aaron Grothe" <ajgrothe at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hey Guys,
>
> If anybody ever gives you grief about the value of Open Source feel free
> to point them to this project (stumbled across it while doing research on
> Microsoft's removal of fonts from Windows a couple of weeks ago)
>
> http://dyslexicfonts.com/
>
>
> It is a font designed to help people with Dyslexia.  For those of you who
> don't know what that is it is a depressingly common learning disability
> where words appear jumbled.  So Linux can appear as xuinL or a bunch of
> different ways.
>
> People have installed it on Jailbroken Nooks and Iphones as well as Linux
> and Windows.  Which when you think about an e-reader for people who can't
> read just sounds massively cool :-)
>
> Regards,
>
> Aaron
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