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Free Font Helps People With Dyslexia

Posted by timothy on from the in-the-interest-of-manknid dept.

Thornburg writes "There is a free font available which has been designed to make it easier for people with dyslexia to read. DailyTech has a piece which pulls together a BBC interview and blog postings by the designer, Abelardo Gonzalez, who received a C&D letter from another font designer who charges $69 for his dyslexia related font."

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  1. Ignore Christian Boer, he's an ass by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Your typeface doesn't look the same as his typeface. You can't copyright typefaces, and they're all derivative.

    Typically what Adobe does is trademark the name, so there are many Palladins or Pallertrino's and the like, but only one Palatino (tm Adobe/Linotype).

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palatino

    What Mr Boer is trying to do, is to bully competitors in an effort to block competition. This is not unusual. The world is full of little shits like this. You have to learn to get a thicker skin against them and just ignore him.