- From: Dave J Woolley <david.woolley@bts.co.uk>
- Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 19:17:33 +0100
- To: "'w3c-wai-ig@w3.org'" <w3c-wai-ig@w3.org>
> From: Tai Du [SMTP:tdu@halftheplanet.com] > > If you happen to have dyslexia and I would appreciate your input. > Otherwise, please forgive me for not putting the listserv into context > before I submitted my request. > [DJW:] I don't have specific expertise, but I would have thought that the characteristics that make fonts good body text fonts would be the ones you wanted. Good body text fonts are designed to make the character shapes as distinct as possible. Typical ones would be Times Roman and New Century Schoolbook (from its name, I suspect that the latter might be particular designed for people unfamiliar with reading). (Actually it amuses me how books for learning readers often use very stylised fonts on their covers. This is most obvious in alphabets that one doesn't know well. I suspect this is similar to the way that many web designers go overboard with fonts. I suppose the idea might be to show the acceptable variation in character forms, but I doubt it.) -- --------------------------- DISCLAIMER --------------------------------- Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of BTS.
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