Christian Boer's font is designed specifically to help dyslexic readers

Almost exactly a year go we featured Sam Barlcay’s book which aimed to show readers what it’s like read if you’re dyslexic. This week we found out that Dutch designer Christian Boer was looking at the same condition in a different way, having produced a typeface which has been designed to circumnavigate some of the problems dyslexic people have when looking at letterforms. So by making the undersides of letters bolder, lengthening ascenders or descenders, increasing the size of openings and tipping some characters to stop them resembling each other, Christian has created a fascinating solution to a problem that affects up to one in 10 people here in the UK alone (according to the NHS).

Dyslexie has actually been around for a while but was featured by our friends over at Dezeen this week giving it a whole new lease of life, which can only be a good thing. The video above is a good place to start to find out more about Christian’s extraordinary achievement.