Translator: AJ Jungbluth Reviewer: Carol Wang
Hello, everybody.
[What if I told you, you that read wrong That awkward when you realize when
you reab that wrong too. And you said "Moment" atfer awkward]
Sometimes all weneed to qo is go back and read the sentense again keep clam
this is not your final exannes.
Welcome to the world of dyslexia.
(Laughs)
These people, these famous people, have all dyslexia.
Within the US, around 15-20% have dyslexia,
and I believe that these people, these famous people,
have got so far because they have dyslexia -
they got stronger.
And the problem with dyslexia is well known - is reading -
and reading is everywhere.
Typical brain - they use three areas to read;
and a dyslectic brain that only uses one of the three areas to read.
And to explain to you, look at this picture.
You think of these blocks,
the lower part is lighter,
but it's not.
It's an optical illusion -
you're tricked by your brain.
And people with dyslexia are also tricked by their brain while reading.
And they're tricked
because their brain is switching and rotating and mirroring the letters.
To explain further,
this rotation and mirroring and switching the letters are all 3D movements.
So if you take a regular cup of coffee, and switch and rotate and mirror it,
it will always be a cup of coffee.
But look what happens when we do this with a typeface, or with a letter.
The meaning will change.
And then look to all the other letters.
[p q d b]
In this case, they are all based on circles -
they all look alike,
especially, when you rotate, mirror, and switch them.
[m n h u]
And these letters are all based on arches,
so you make kind of twin letters for dyslectic people.
[v w i j]
And these have all the same angles.
So it's really hard and problematic for people with dyslexia.
[The Dyslexie font dyslexie]
So what I have done is get rid of all the regular rules
to make a typeface and make my own rules
to help people with dyslexia, like myself.
What I've done is,
when you flip the letters upside down and around,
I was thinking, okay, let's make the other side bolder.
You don't flip them anymore because the heavy part will go down.
[b d u]
And if you mirror the letters, or have difficulty to distinguish them,
I was thinking, okay, just look at them and slant them,
so they don't fit each other anymore.
[i j l]
And when letters look alike, like this, and you read ii or jj,
let's slant the whole letter,
[i j l]
and some letters just straight up, so you don't read that anymore.
You just read i and j, only to make a difference between the letters.
[o c s e]
And some letters are really close to each other,
and I just make the openings bigger,
so they are just better to recognize from each other
because this is, of course, much bigger than when you are reading in a book.
So every little bit helps reading.
Also, making the ascender and decender longer,
[n h p]
so the differences are emphasized.
And the problem what I got a lot is reading two sentences together
because I miss the capitals and the punctuations.
And while you're busy translating it for yourself,
you just totally lose it.
So making the capitals bigger and the punctuation bigger,
you create a kind of a stop sign in your text to take a breath
and read the next line.
And against the crowding effect,
when letters are melting together when you are reading,
[spacing]
I just adjust the spacing to a better place between the words,
and between the letters - extra space -
so you distinguish each letter more.
And then, what I get a lot - and as a graphic designer - it's logical,
but most of us are not graphic designers.
What can you do within typeface?
It's like any other typeface on your computer,
you can use it in Word, online, everywhere.
If you can select the typeface, you can select Dyslexie.
And it's used around the world by schools, companies,
government departments, and especially, my own favorite - home users.
You get great stories back,
and home users can download it for free from dyslexiefont.com,
and everywhere are now publishers with books, learning-to-write kits,
apps, education, you name it.
They find their own way and use it in their way,
and it pops up everywhere, and they help each other again.
Please, take your time and read this.
[What if I told you, you read this right?
Then there is a awkward moment when you realize you read this right too.
And you just read "moment" after awkward!
Now you don't have to go back and read the sentence again.]
My dream is that the typeface will be used
where it's needed to help people on daily basis.
And that dyslexia is not only known by a reading problem,
but also by the gift of dyslexia.
Thank you.
(Applause)