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1. Inter-Letter Spacing, Inter-Word Spacing, and Font with Dyslexia-Friendly Features: Testing Text Readability in People with and without Dyslexia

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Galliussi, Jessica, Perondi, Luciano, Chia, Giuseppe, Gerbino, Walter, and Bernardis, Paolo

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Over the last years, several studies have suggested a possible link between dyslexia and deficits in low-level visual processing (e.g., excessive crowding). At the same time, specially designed "dyslexia-friendly" fonts appeared on the market. This class of fonts presents two main features: the particular graphic characteristics of the letterform designed to avoid confusion between similarly shaped letters, and wider inter-letter and inter-word spacing to limit crowding. The literature testing the efficacy of "dyslexia-friendly" fonts in improving reading accuracy and increasing reading speed is controversial. We evaluated the impact of letterform (with vs. without dyslexia-friendly graphic features), inter-letter spacing (standard vs. increased), and inter-word spacing (standard vs. increased) on reading accuracy and speed. Two groups of 64 children each, with and without dyslexia, read aloud 8 equivalent texts. The data collected failed to show any effect from the letterform. As regards spacing, the data showed that reading speed is impaired by an increase in inter-letter spacing not combined with an adequate increase in inter-word spacing.

Published
2020
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2. Tipografia parametrica e Developmental Dyslexia

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Perondi, Luciano, Gerbino, Walter, Chia, Giuseppe, Arista, Roberto, Pignoni, Giovanni, and Gaudenzi, Giammarco

Subjects
Typeface design, Legibility assess-ment, Parametric typography, Typeface design, Parametric typography, Legibility assess-ment, Learning disabilities, Learning disabilities
Published
2017

3. Inter-letter spacing, inter-word spacing, and font with dyslexia friendly features: testing text readability in people with and without dyslexia

Author

Paolo Bernardis, Giuseppe Chia, Jessica Galliussi, Walter Gerbino, Luciano Perondi, Galliussi, Jessica, Perondi, Luciano, Chia, Giuseppe, Gerbino, Walter, and Bernardis, Paolo

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Male, media_common.quotation_subject, Word processing, Font, computer.software_genre, letter spacing, Article, 050105 experimental psychology, Psycholinguistics, Education, Dyslexia, Visual processing, Speech and Hearing, reading, Reading (process), dyslexia, Letter spacing, medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, EasyReading, font, Child, media_common, business.industry, 05 social sciences, 050301 education, medicine.disease, Crowding, Readability, Reading, Pattern Recognition, Visual, Visual Perception, Female, Artificial intelligence, Comprehension, Psychology, business, 0503 education, computer, Photic Stimulation, Natural language processing
Abstract

Over the last years, several studies have suggested a possible link between dyslexia and deficits in low-level visual processing (e.g., excessive crowding). At the same time, specially designed “dyslexia-friendly” fonts appeared on the market. This class of fonts presents two main features: the particular graphic characteristics of the letterform designed to avoid confusion between similarly shaped letters, and wider inter-letter and inter-word spacing to limit crowding. The literature testing the efficacy of “dyslexia-friendly” fonts in improving reading accuracy and increasing reading speed is controversial. We evaluated the impact of letterform (with vs. without dyslexia-friendly graphic features), inter-letter spacing (standard vs. increased), and inter-word spacing (standard vs. increased) on reading accuracy and speed. Two groups of 64 children each, with and without dyslexia, read aloud 8 equivalent texts. The data collected failed to show any effect from the letterform. As regards spacing, the data showed that reading speed is impaired by an increase in inter-letter spacing not combined with an adequate increase in inter-word spacing. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1007/s11881-020-00194-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

Published
2020

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