ArticleAnnals of dyslexia2018
Dyslexie font does not benefit reading in children with or without dyslexia.
Article in Annals of dyslexia, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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- Assessment of newly designed fonts for visual accessibility.PloS one · 2026Article
- A Preliminary Evaluation of Dyslexie's Influence on Adult Dyslexic Reading Performance.Behavior analysis in practice · 2025Article
- DyslexiaNet: Examining the Viability and Efficacy of Eye Movement-Based Deep Learning for Dyslexia Detection.Journal of eye movement research · 2025Article
- Identifying students with dyslexia: exploration of current assessment methods.Annals of dyslexia · 2025Article
- Evaluating a Photogrammetry-Based Video for Undergraduate Anatomy Education.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2023Article
- Does a specialist typeface affect how fluently children with and without dyslexia process letters, words, and passages?Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2022Article
- Removing the academic framing in student evaluations improves achievement in children with dyslexia: The mediating role of self-judgement of competence.Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2022Article
- Effects of word length and word frequency among dyslexic, ADHD-I and typical readers.Journal of eye movement research · 2022Article
- Individuals with dyslexia use a different visual sampling strategy to read text.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Inter-letter spacing, inter-word spacing, and font with dyslexia-friendly features: testing text readability in people with and without dyslexia.Annals of dyslexia · 2020Article
- Validity and Reliability of the Dyslexia Checklist for Chinese Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2018Article
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Abstract
In two experiments, the claim was tested that the font "Dyslexie", specifically designed for people with dyslexia, eases reading performance of children with (and without) dyslexia. Three questions were investigated. (1) Does the Dyslexie font lead to faster and/or more accurate reading? (2) Do children have a preference for the Dyslexie font? And, (3) is font preference related to reading performance? In Experiment 1, children with dyslexia (n = 170) did not read text written in Dyslexie font faster or more accurately than in Arial font. The majority preferred reading in Arial and preference was not related to reading performance. In Experiment 2, children with (n = 102) and without dyslexia (n = 45) read word lists in three different font types (Dyslexie, Arial, Times New Roman). Words written in Dyslexie font were not read faster or more accurately. Moreover, participants showed a preference for the fonts Arial and Times New Roman rather than Dyslexie, and again, preference was not related to reading performance. These experiments clearly justify the conclusion that the Dyslexie font neither benefits nor impedes the reading process of children with and without dyslexia.
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