PSA: Readability-enhancing opensource font 'Atkinson Hyperlegible' has got a 2025 release with a new 'Mono' variant and improvements to the original called 'Next'. Enjoy!

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abotelho-cbn@reddit

Wonderful font, regardless of whether or not someone is a "low vision" person or not. This just makes sense. Having a clear and obvious difference between characters is how all fonts should be.

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I'm not sure about that, over the years I've probably burned a few thousand calories trying to distinguish between uppercase i, number one, lowercase ell, and pipe symbols (mostly in Windows). Zero and uppercase o contributed as well. I now have a lean and exercised brain.

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DuendeInexistente@reddit

https://i.imgur.com/SVJVKeM.png

These look nothing alike.

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doomcomplex@reddit

That zero is backwards and it drives me insane

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Nareshkendel@reddit

It's to avoid confusion with the Ø

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perkited@reddit

Really good there.

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abotelho-cbn@reddit

What?

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redsteakraw@reddit

One of the only non coding mono fonts that clearly defines O0 and 1Iil.

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JuanPabloVassermiler@reddit

Absolutely. Even without context, the font is simply pleasing to the eye. It does seem to share much of its DNA with programming fonts, so I guess the mono variant makes a ton of sense.

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syklemil@reddit

I like that the slashed 0 here actually has the slash going the other way than it does in Ø. It seems a lot of monospace designers just test for O0, not O0Ø.

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

What even is that third character?

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syklemil@reddit

It's the Ø! Slightly different from the empty set character, it's featured in ÆØÅ. It is, essentially, the Norwegian and Danish way of spelling what the Swedes and Germans spell as Ö.

Itt's hard tu get ækross inn Inglisj spelling, bøtt iff Aj jus /r/JuropijanSpeling itt sjaos øpp mår. :)

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

I was ALMOST able to read that last part, the ending got me.

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syklemil@reddit

In ordinary orthography, it'd be "It's hard to get across in English spelling, but if I use /r/JuropijanSpeling it shows up more".

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

thanks.

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is_this_temporary@reddit

I'm curious how legible this is for dyslexic people.

It would be great if one font handled both low vision and dyslexic use cases at the same time.

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FryBoyter@reddit

I'm curious how legible this is for dyslexic people.

I am not affected myself, but some readers of my website are. Based on this, there is not one font that is really suitable for all those suffering. I even had contact with people who prefer fonts that have not been optimised for dislexia.

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

That actually makes sense because, as someone posted above, apparently dyslexia isn't a visual-based issue, it's a language processing issue.

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Indolent_Bard@reddit

If I ruled the world, every program and game would let you be able to pick your fonts based on legibility.

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TeutonJon78@reddit

Open Dyslexic is designed for that condition. It seems legible to me,like as well.

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Odd-Possession-4276@reddit

I'm curious how legible this is for dyslexic people.

It'll be worse than a specifically-designed one. You'd need a large letter spacing (that could be patched-in) and a peculiar asymmetric font¹ weight to be most effective, which is not optimal for a readability-prioritized font.

Source: https://opendyslexic.org/related-research

¹ the oversimplified explanation is "like always having a reading strip applied to your text"

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irasponsibly@reddit

OpenDyslexic isn't always best for everyone with Dyslexia, and Atkinson can work better for some people.

It's also not exactly conclusive that OpenDyslexic works at all or that font really matters for Dyslexia beyond it being clear and legible.

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Default_Defect@reddit

I'm not sure I can put it into the right words, but "hyperlegible" makes me laugh because I'm imagining some sort of EXTREME READING scenario. Like seeing a word I can read SO WELL that I react to it like seeing Tony Hawk do a 900 for the first time.

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mhadr@reddit (OP)

"Like seeing a word I can read SO WELL that I react to it.."

There you said it! To me that sounds like a perfect use case for making effective road signs, where the goal is to prompt a reaction.

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Default_Defect@reddit

Huh, I suppose it hadn't occurred to me that this might be how people that had difficulty with the usual fonts might react to one that is tailored to them.

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shigawire@reddit

I wonder if the kerning is deliberately like that or just not enough pairs. It's jarring but only because I'm looking critically at it.

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Kok_Nikol@reddit

What is the issue with the kerning here?

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ueberbelichtetesfoto@reddit

https://xkcd.com/1015/

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shigawire@reddit

Oh yes. :)

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Kok_Nikol@reddit

That website is absolutely stunning!

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robin-m@reddit

Incredible font. I’ve been using monaspace radon for quite some time, but the legibility of this new font is just mind-blowing!

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pepa65@reddit

Immediately started using it on the terminal, very legible!

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can_ichange_it_later@reddit

Im only ever changing my terminals font.
Is it just ne?

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iamapizza@reddit

I'm sorry but this behaviour is considered an illness. I'm afraid it's terminal.

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Keely369@reddit

I would like to offer that it may not be terminal in the hope this will console the previous poster.

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korewabetsumeidesune@reddit

Thanks To You, they may feel better.

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lelddit97@reddit

HAHAHA I GOT IT

unlike these noobs

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korewabetsumeidesune@reddit

Didn't everyone who upvoted me get it?

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Keely369@reddit

I see what you did there.. :)

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JimmyRecard@reddit

Hopefully that shell make them feel better.

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redsteakraw@reddit

I like it now has a mono, so your system and mono font can mesh well and they both clearly define O01Iil

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apoorvpotnis@reddit

Eagerly waiting for mathematics support.

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githman@reddit

Installed it as an experiment. Reddit definitely looks better in Firefox, not without some poking around. The book I'm reading in Calibre turned so more legible that I reduced the font size - they did a great job not just for English but for the less widespread languages too.

Forcing Plasma to use a non-standard font everywhere is going to be a fun quest. I can tell already.

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FryBoyter@reddit

An article has been published at https://www.printmag.com/type-tuesday/atkinson-hyperlegible-next-applied-design/ which goes into more detail about the changes in the next version.

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mhadr@reddit (OP)

Awesome! Thanks for sharing.

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markalt@reddit

Why does it need my email address to download it?

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mhadr@reddit (OP)

You don't have to. The fonts are also available from Google Fonts library here https://fonts.google.com/?query=Braille+Institute

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korewabetsumeidesune@reddit

And via homebrew:

brew install --cask font-atkinson-hyperlegible-next, etc.

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