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Open Dyslexic font gains ground with help of Instapaper
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19734341
The OpenDyslexic font is designed to give "gravity" to letters to prevent the characters rotating in readers' minds
A free-to-use font designed to help people with dyslexia read online content is gaining favour.
OpenDyslexic's characters have been given "heavy-weighted bottoms" to prevent them from flipping and swapping around in the minds of their readers.
A recent update to the popular app Instapaper has adopted the text format as an option for its users.
The font has also been built into a word processor, an ebook reader and has been installed on school computers.
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I'm dyslexic and have never felt it is a "disability". I do like this font.
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