Typography That Welcomes Everyone

For some readers, the letters move.

Roughly one person in ten reads with dyslexia. For them, tight spacing, mirrored letterforms and justified rivers are not style choices — they are walls. The fixes are well documented and almost free:

• Generous letter and word spacing
• Unambiguous letterforms — b and d should not be twins in a mirror
• Ragged-right setting, always
• Real line height, 1.5 or better

This theme applies all of it. The deeper point: legibility is who gets to read; readability is who wants to. A garden should fail at neither.

The research trail: on-the-legibility-of-justified-text.