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Add to Google Web Fonts #17
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By all means, I don't mind if Google receives a huge amount of submissions for this. |
Yep. They said soon. :) |
Well this is a shame - 6 months on and it's still not there. So, @antijingoist submitted it, they say "soon", but nothing happened? I went to "submit a font" but it says "Only submit fonts that you own all related copyrights, trademarks and other rights for" and at the bottom it asks me to confirm that "I own all rights to this font". So there's nothing I can do - can you try re-submitting it again? There are 600 fonts at Google and I think this one would be a really good one to have. |
Yep. Thats because that's all I've been told. There was a lot more work put into this one outside of just a submission on the webpage. Just waiting for someone to approve it. Which, was, soon I'll try to contact them again and see what's going on. |
Hey @antijingoist, do you know if Google has gotten anywhere with this? |
+1 |
Hey, i'm trying to do a quick webapp for a speech therapist in a school, and i'm interested in using it as well as a google font. did you try to make a PR here https://github.com/google/fonts ? |
In the end, I decided not to onboard this (or any other font made for dyslexics) to Google Fonts, because I kindly believe they are all based on a fundamental misunderstanding of what dyslexia is. I'd love to help dyslexics and kids read better, but I believe fonts can't help them: I think there is no detectable reading performance difference between Arial and Dyslexie for dyslexic readers. As a citable paper on this, Monotype commissioned a literature review of the dyslexic fonts from Chuck Bigelow and Kris Holmes: http://bigelowandholmes.typepad.com/bigelow-holmes/2014/11/typography-dyslexia.html (B&H are big names in the type industry; Chuck Bigelow worked as a type manager at Adobe when it was a startup in the 80s...) And there's also a less academic / lighter article in Communication Arts: http://www.commarts.com/columns/should-dyslexics-unite.html And more recently, in http://typedrawers.com/discussion/1721/dyslexie-font-activism was this quote:
In the spirit of scientific inquiry, I welcome peer-reviewed scientific research that demonstrates such fonts can really help. Until then... :) |
Another study that adds to the above comment relating to the font not being found to improve reading rate or accuracy. The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy |
The commarts.com link above is broken; the current one appears to be https://www.commarts.com/columns/should-dyslexics-unite-on-a-typeface. (Perhaps you could edit your response to fix this. Feel free to delete this comment if you do that.) |
I think it would be a good idea to submit the font to Google Webfonts - http://www.google.com/webfonts
Hopefully, that would allow it to be used by many more people and projects.
Form at https://services.google.com/fb/forms/submitafont/
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