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Something new I learned today: Atkinson Hyperlegible Font is a font designed with low vision readers in mind.

Can be downloaded off of Google Fonts or directly from the Braille Institute: brailleinstitute.org/freefont

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A new typeface – greater legibility and readability for low vision readers Atkinson Hyperlegible font is named after Braille Institute founder, J. Robert Atkinson.
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Hilda Bastian
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This is fascinating! The Braille Institute has developed a font - free to download - that's designed to be clearer for readers with lower vision.

An example of one of the aspects of low legibility that they tackled attached.

It's named Atkinson Hyperlegible. Atkinson was the Institute's founder - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Rober…

Here's where you can read about the font and download it: brailleinstitute.org/freefont

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For Low vision readers – certain letters and numbers can be hard to distinguish from one another. Answer – Atkinson Hyperlegible differentiates common misinterpreted letters and numbers using various design techniques. The examples in the screenshot show how similar B and 8 can look, as well as 1, I, i, and l.

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