"I perceived letters floating like balloons in my head," Boer says. Some dyslexics even see letters as suspended 3-D animations that twist before their eyes. Scans of dyslexic brains show that there are structural differences-including in the thalamus, which serves an information way station-when compared with other brains. For years it was thought that dyslexia was a vision problem, but scientists now know that the condition stems from the brain. Unlike other readers, dyslexics have a tendency to rotate, swap and mirror letters, making it difficult for them to comprehend what they’re reading. one out of every five persons is dyslexic, according to the National Institutes of Health. (pdf)īoer's research could likewise have a big impact on English speakers, given the prevalence of dyslexia when reading that language, as compared with Italian, whose words are pronounced more closely to how they are spelled. In December 2010 a fellow student conducted an independent study on the font as part of a master's thesis and discovered a significant reduction in reading errors by dyslexics when reading Dutch text typed in Dyslexie as opposed to the Arial font. It eventually became his graduate school project. users to purchase online.īoer began designing the font in 2008 while studying at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. This month Boer released the font in English for U.S. The font works by tweaking the appearance of certain letters of the alphabet that dyslexics commonly misconstrue, such as "d" and "b," to make them more recognizable. The 30-year-old created a font called Dyslexie that has proved to decrease the number of errors made by dyslexics while reading. After years of fumbling while reading the written word, Christian Boer, a graphic designer from the Netherlands, has developed a way to help tackle his dyslexia.
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