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Good Fonts for Dyslexia
Good Fonts for DyslexiaLuz RelloNLP & Web research GroupsUniversitat Pompeu FabraBarcelona, Baeza-YatesYahoo! Labs &Web research Group, UPFB arcelona, 10% of the people have Dyslexia , a neurological dis-ability that impairs a person s ability to read and is evidence that the presentation of the text has asignificant effect on a text s accessibility for people withdyslexia. However, to the best of our knowledge, there areno experiments that objectively measure the impact of thefont type on reading performance. In this paper, we presentthe first experiment that uses eye-tracking to measure theeffect of font type on reading speed. Using a within-subjectdesign, 48 subjects with Dyslexia read 12 texts with 12 dif-ferent serif,monospacedandromanfont stylessignificantly improved the reading performance overserif,proportionalanditalicfonts.
Previous research has shown that text presentation can be an important factor regarding the reading performance of people with dyslexia [11, 25]. On the other hand, any digital text has to be written using one or several certain font types. Although the selection of font types is crucial in the text design process, empirical
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