fonts

A long time ago, I once noted down some CSS code that uses Helvetica or similar typefaces if they are locally available on the respective system. Recently, I needed something comparable for code—that is, typefaces with a fixed character width. After doing some research, I came up with the following code. font-family: ui-monospace, SFMono-Regular, "SF Mono", Menlo, Monaco, Consolas, "Cascadia Mono", "Liberation Mono", "DejaVu Sans Mono", "Courier New", monospace; The text was automatically translated from German into English. The German quotations were also translated in sense. ...

Contrary to some assumptions, according to a study the special typeface “Dyslexie” does not statistically help people with dyslexia when reading. Youki Terada writes in »Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work?« for edutopia.org In a separate 2018 study, researchers compared another popular dyslexia font—Dyslexie, which charges a fee for usage—with Arial and Times New Roman and found no benefit to reading accuracy and speed. As with the previous dyslexia font, children expressed a preference for the mainstream fonts. “All in all, the font Dyslexie, developed to facilitate the reading of dyslexic people, does not have the desired effect,” the researchers concluded. “Children with dyslexia do not read better when text is printed in the font Dyslexie than when text is printed in Arial or Times New Roman.” ...