Inclusive Sans
Inclusive Sans is a text font designed for accessibility and readability. It is inspired by the friendly personality of contemporary neo-grotesques while incorporating key features to make it highly legible in all uses.
Typography
Typography in Inclusive Design Part 2: Choosing typefaces and laying out text content
By taking an inclusive approach and designing with people with disability at the centre, we can create more accessible typography for everyone.
The Equilateral Triangle of a Perfect Paragraph
One of the most important things in typography is to shape a seamless reading experience that invites the reader and presents the content in an objective way. To do that, we need to be able to shape perfect paragraphs. There are three keys to doing that.
Don’t Believe The Type!
Are “accessible” fonts actually as accessible as they claim? If not, what are the things we need to know when choosing a font that responds to different reader needs?
Evaluating Fonts: Font Family Selection for Accessibility & Display Readability
An informal evaluation of the accessibility characteristics of several dozen fonts. Generally accepted accessibility concerns are discussed.
Accessibility Whack-A-Mole
“How do we deal with accessibility needs for which there are no definitive answers?” asks Eleanor Ratliff. Sometimes we arrive at a fix that helps one group of people only to find that our solution…
Accessible Typefaces, Fonts, and Text with Jared Smith
In this presentation, guest speaker Jared Smith provides an overview of how reading is processed in the human mind, and how to minimize the cognitive effort and maximize the visual accessibility of online text.
5 Keys to Accessible Web Typography
The basics and the best practices of accessible web typography.
One Font Doesn’t Fit All: The Influence of Digital Text Personalization on Comprehension in Child and Adolescent Readers
The current study aimed to investigate the effect of character width and inter-letter spacing on reading speed and comprehension.
Understanding Users Needs - TAdER Project on Text Adaptability
The TAdER project encourages developers to include specific text customization functionality in their products to meet the needs of people with low vision, dyslexia, and related conditions that impact reading.
Text Display Aspects that Users Need to Customize
Source Sans 3
Source Sans Pro, Adobe's first open source typeface family, was designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a sans serif typeface intended to work well in user interfaces.
Do Dyslexia Fonts Actually Work?
The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy
A single-subject alternating treatment design was used to investigate the extent to which a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, impacted reading rate or accuracy compared to two commonly used fonts when used with elementary students identified as having dyslexia.
Typographic Hierarchy in Print, Web & App Design - Pimp my Type
Designing Accessible Text Over Images: Best Practices, Techniques, And Resources (Part 1) — Smashing Magazine
FS Millbank Font | Webfont & Desktop | MyFonts
Lexie Readable
Lexie Readable (formerly Lexia Readable) was designed with accessibility and legibility in mind, an attempt to capture the strength and clarity of Comic Sans without the comic book associations.
Features like the non-symmetrical b and d, and the handwritten forms of a and g may help dyslexic readers. You can read more about the story behind Lexie Readable in the Kernel.
Read Regular
Read Regular aims at preventing a neglect of dyslexia, creating a more confident feeling regarding the problems that occur with dyslexia.
FS Me Font
When most of us go about everyday tasks, we take for granted the reading that’s involved, on instructions, labels and so on. For people with learning disabilities, reading is made much harder by certain fonts. FS Me is designed specifically to improve legibility for people with learning disabilities.
Accessible-DfA
Accessible-DfA font has been designed to provide maximum legibility for everybody.
B612
B612 is an highly legible open source font family designed and tested to be used on aircraft cockpit screens.
APHont Font
PHont (pronounced Ay’-font), was developed by APH specifically for low vision readers. APHont embodies characteristics that have been shown to enhance reading speed, comprehension, and comfort for large print users.
The entire APHont Suite is available free-of-charge to qualified users for non-commercial purposes.
Merriweather
Merriweather was designed to be a text face that is pleasant to read on screens. It features a very large x height, slightly condensed letterforms, a mild diagonal stress, sturdy serifs and open forms.
Charis SIL
Charis SIL is a Unicode-based font family that supports the wide range of languages that use the Latin and Cyrillic scripts. It is specially designed to make long texts pleasant and easy to read, even in less than ideal reproduction and display environments.
Andika
Andika is a sans-serif font family designed and optimized especially for literacy use. It supports almost the complete range of Unicode characters for these scripts, including a comprehensive range of diacritics and a large set of symbols useful for linguistics and literacy work.
Accessible fonts for easier readability: the basics
Fonts affect accessibility for visually impaired and dyslexic users. Read our guide to understand how to choose accessible fonts for websites and other documents that are easy to read for everyone.
Tiresias
Tiresias is a family of TrueType sans-serif typefaces that were designed with the aim of legibility by people with impaired vision at the Scientific Research Unit of Royal National Institute of Blind People in London.
Rising » FS Me: ‘The accessible type’
FS Me is a typeface family designed by Jason Smith of Fontsmith. Developed with Mencap, a leading UK charity for people with learning disabilities, it was designed to meet, and then exceed, the recommendations of government accessibility guidelines.
Accessible typography
On this page we are going to look at some myths and facts about accessible and usable typography as relevant to APA Style. The main takeaway is this: There do not have to be trade-offs—you can have great, expressive, nuanced typography that also meets or exceeds all regulatory and functional accessibility requirements.