Designer Christian Boer has created a font especially for dyslexic people. Christian originally designed the font called Dyslexie as part of a university project in 2008. Six years later, it’s now available in over ten languages, and is being used by over 2,000 companies, including Nintendo, Shell, Pixar Animation Studios and the Penguin Group.

The font has been designed so the bottom half of the letters are bigger and bolder. Openings are bigger, and some letters are slanted whilst others are straight, helping to differentiate between them. The full stops and capital letters between sentences are also bolder forcing the reader to stop, so they don’t run sentences together. Some letters have been lengthened in height, making them easier to recognise.

Initial research undertaken with the parents of dyslexic children and also teachers who work with dyslexic children say that over 80 per cent of those surveyed, could read faster using the font, while over three quarters said they made less mistakes and that they would advise others to use the font.

Christian has been working hard and the font is now available in Dutch, English, German, French, Icelandic, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Italian, Spanish and Turkish.

He has also almost finished designing the font in Polish, and he is hoping to add Russian Cyrillic within the next two years.

You can find out more information from this website and read the research here

We would like throw our yellowhats up into the air to express of our huge admiration for Christian's work.