Dyslexic Type
I’m a dyslexic freak. This blog is a testament to that. Any frequent reader to these pages has no doubt winced a time or two at my feeble flirting with grammar. I try to remember, to quote from Stephen King’s Everything is Eventual, that, “grammar is for the world as well as for school”. However, when people told me I was dyslexic and that I could use that as an excuse for my sloppy editing habits, I immediately hopped aboard that train.

So, I’m not really sure how I feel about the folks at Read Regular, who claim they have devised a specific type face for the dyslexic community. Can this really be true? Can a typeface begin to solve such a complex medical condition, one that I try frequently to enflame by sniffing yellow Sharpies all day long. I guess it’s possible. Perhaps downright hopeful. Maybe Typography hasn’t yet really had its day in the sun. Soon people will be solving a lot more of the worlds problems through kerning and serifs. Maybe even this whole Middle East conflict could be resolved if for once the type someone used to draw up a peace accord was set in something so magnificent, so appropriate that the world leaders would succumb to its majesty and put pen to paper. Problem solved.