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This Font Simulates What It's Like To Have Dyslexia by khalhokage(m): 8:44pm On Jun 17, 2015


In the world of advertising, most campaign posters are designed to be read easily by anyone from a distance and at close range.

What marks graphic designer Daniel Britton’s font as distinct is that, when formed into complete sentences, the words are a challenge to read in order to emulate exactly how frustrating dyslexia can be.

Believing dyslexia to be misunderstood and under-researched, Britton designed the font and these images in his final year at university to raise awareness of the condition.



“The rhetoric about people with dyslexia is that they’re stupid, they’re lazy, they’re not trying,” Britton told
MailOnline . “When people try to simulate dyslexia, they’ll make some letters blurry, put an "e" back to front and open up the spaces between words.”
As someone with dyslexia, Britton felt that campaigns that used such techniques didn't do the condition justice.

“People’s brains can overcome that and decode it. So people can still read it. So it’s not like having dyslexia at all. For most people with dyslexia, the letters and numbers do not jump around on the page and the colours remain the same,” Britton said. “It is simply a breakdown in communication between the eye and the brain. You can see the information, you can see each letter perfectly but there is something in your mind that is stopping or slowing the process of information.”

To slow down a non-dyslexic person’s reading speed, Britton removed 40% of each letter’s lines, rendering sentences a struggle to read.



According to Dyslexia International , dyslexia affects over 700 million people worldwide. Impacting a person’s ability to read, write and spell, this learning difficulty can have a knock-on effect in academic success and their self-esteem.
Individuals with dyslexia are affected to different degrees, and it should be noted that the above graphics are just his representation of the condition.


www.iflscience.com/brain/font-simulates-dyslexia-make-words-harder-read
Re: This Font Simulates What It's Like To Have Dyslexia by Nobody: 9:28pm On Jun 17, 2015
FTC.. nawa ooo. wetin person no go see
Re: This Font Simulates What It's Like To Have Dyslexia by sinaj(f): 7:00am On Jun 18, 2015
woow!!! I neva knew dyslexia is diz bad sad
Re: This Font Simulates What It's Like To Have Dyslexia by Gigihealth: 3:53pm On Jul 03, 2016
Dyslexia symptoms differ from person to person, each individual with dyslexia will manifest unique strengths and weaknesses. There is no cure for dyslexia, but children with dyslexia can succeed in school with the help of tutoring or specialized education programs. Click on the link below to read more on dyslexia

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