Transcription of Good Fonts for Dyslexia Study
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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.
We chose to study Arial and Times because they are the most common fonts used on screen and printed texts, re-spectively [5]. OpenDyslexic was selected because is a free font type designed speci cally for people with dyslexia and Verdana because is the recommended font for this target group [2]. We choose Courier because is the most common
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