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For a long time, I’ve just put on DejaVu fonts and been done with it. Generally good enough Unicode coverage for me. But I know it’s been years since DejaVu’s been updated, and I wonder what’s very common today.

[As for the terminal, I’m guessing it’s usually still the standard fixed Unicode fonts?]

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[–] SK4nda1@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I use open dyslexia as I have dyslexia. Its very nice!

[–] sapo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

How do you like Atkinson Hyperlegible?? I've heard good things about it from visually impaired people, but I'm not clear on how much it helps with dyslexia.

[–] victron@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok, I think I need to google that one, not that I have dislexia, just out of curiosity.

[–] lemmyvore@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

It's a font designed to ease letter recognition.

It can be useful for people who don't have dislexia too, for example for subtitles.