{"id":1504,"date":"2003-10-16T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T15:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/10\/16\/1504.html"},"modified":"2003-10-16T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T15:59:05","slug":"read-regular","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/10\/16\/read-regular\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Regular"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A European designer, Natascha French, has designed a new typeface called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readregular.com\/english\/regular.html\">Read Regular<\/a> to make text easier to read for dyslexic people.<\/p>\n<p>It looks like a pretty normal sans-serif typeface at first glance, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readregular.com\/english\/background.html\">background page<\/a> provides information on what's different about it.  For example, each letter has a unique shape; b and d are not exact mirror images of each other.  The regularity of shapes that's usually a characteristic of a good typeface is, I assume, a disadvantage when a reader might easily confuse exact mirror images, so the designer's added slight variations to each letter.<\/p>\n<p>Pretty cool.  Dyslexic people can presumably acquire the typeface (though I'm not quite sure how to do that) and use it on their computers, for reading web pages and such&#8212;though as a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readregular.com\/english\/dyslexia.html\">page on dyslexia<\/a> at that site reminds me, big blocks of text may still be a problem.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A European designer, Natascha French, has designed a new typeface called Read Regular to make text easier to read for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}