Graphic Designers Find New Fonts for Dyslexic

People with dyslexia are very difficult to read the letters one by one and always to figure out words while reading. Now with the use of fonts (display) specifically called Dyslexie, helped reduce the number of common punctuation mistakes dyslexics.

After all these years to figure out words while reading, Christian Boer finally developed a way to help overcome his dyslexia disorder. 30-year-old Dutch man who works as a graphic designer has created a font called Dyslexie.

Dyslexia is a disorder that damages a person's accuracy or comprehension in reading letters or words. Dyslexie works by focusing the appearance of certain letters of the alphabet that is generally difficult to distinguish by people with dyslexia, such as the letter 'd' and 'b', and makes it easily recognizable. Boer releasing these fonts in English and can be purchased online.


Boer started designing this font in 2008 while studying at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. This design eventually became his graduate school project.

In December 2010, a student doing independent research on the font for the master's thesis and found a significant decrease in reading errors in dyslexics when reading text that is typed in a font Netherlands Dyslexie compared with Arial font.

Boer research could also have a major impact on the narrative of the English language, given the greater difficulty due to dyslexia when reading the language in comparison with the Italian language whose words are pronounced more like the spelling.

Unlike other readers, dyslexics have a tendency to rotate, and flip exchange letters, making it difficult to understand what is read. Over the years as a suspected visual impairment dyslexia, but scientists now know that these conditions originate from the brain.

Dyslexic brain scans showed that there were differences in information processing when compared to the brains of normal people. Some people with dyslexia even see the letters as 3-D animation that rotates in front of the eye.

"I feel the letters like a balloon floating in my head," Boer said, as quoted from ScientificAmerican.com, Friday (10/28/2011). Boer dedicate time and graphic design skills to create Dyslexie.

The majority of font designers pay more attention to the aesthetic side, but Boer is more concerned with reading comprehension. He estimates that he has spent his time more than 15 hours to design a single letter. He also recruited his college friends who suffer from dyslexia to seek advice and input.

Although not the first font aimed at helping people with dyslexia, Dyslexie has received a lot of appreciation from patients dileksia. They commented that the fonts are enabled to read with more precise and not tiring.

Boer does not intend to sell this letter as a cure dyslexia, but he hopes to help persons with dyslexia. Given bermacamnya interference level, it is difficult in fact for a font to help all people with dyslexia.

Boer hopes Dyslexie are in the right direction to help others who suffer the same problems as he has for many years. In the meantime, Boer Dyslexie serve orders in English and Dutch on his Web site: http://www.studiostudio.nl/bestellen.