Font for dyslectic people

We are creating fonts for dyslectic people.

Currently we are:

  • Marten Vijn opensource IT specialist (formerly physical and occupational therapist, dislect)
  • Marjan Klipper, orthopedagoog, dyslexia specialist
  • Nanda Klop, logopedist, dyslexia specialist

It is our strong belief these should be free fonts.

Al fonts are based on FreeMono and FreeSans, a copyleft fonttype.

The modifications are available under a BSD-style license or copyleft.

Testing/using

If you want to test this font, it is available on this url:

Current release is 0.04 (Dec 12th 2011) (check previous ones here.)

  • Kobus is called Kobus because it is for Marten's son.
  • Kobus_Sans is called Kobus because it is for Marten's son.
  • LeesVlinder is created by Marjan and Nanda

Samples:

Installation on Linux

(mail me windows/mac howto's)

  • Just download the file and open it with fontviewer and click on install.
  • On the commandline youtube 
    mkdir -p ~/.fonts
cd ~/.fonts
wget http://martenvijn.nl/svn/fonts/tag/<version>/<type>.ttf #replace version/type for above url's

Instalation Windows/Mac

Since I don't have any Windows / Mac test machines, please create one and mail me your howto's or/and URL's.

progress

I'll be making a lot more changes to the coming weeks, so may check also the svn/trunk for the latest results.

Helping us

  • Mac installer + howto's
  • Windows installer + howto's
  • funding !!
  • Contact me via font@…

Development

See README.txt and License.txt in

http://martenvijn.nl/svn/fonts

development files

A lot raw material is here:

How to edit fonts

I started with fontforge to edit the free fonttype FreeMono?.

  • In Ubuntu do 
    sudo apt-get install fontforge
wget  http://martenvijn.nl/svn/fonts/tag/0.01/Kobus.ttf (#or later version)
or do somelthing like  
svn co http://martenvijn.nl/svn/fonts/ )
fontforge  Kobus.sdf