Une police de caractères dédiée aux dyslexiques. Saviez-vous qu’en moyenne la dyslexie touche 10% de la population ? Si ce handicap ne touche que 5% de la population en France (7% pour les enfants scolarisés), il est responsable de problèmes d’assimilation des textes et de retard dans l’apprentissage. Sans trop rentrer dans les détails, les personnes atteintes de dyslexie ont tendance à inverser les lettres (comme illustré plus bas) et donc à changer la signification des mots. Souffrant moi-même de légère dyslexie depuis mon enfance (je ne crois pas que ça se soigne d’ailleurs), je suis particulièrement sensible à ce sujet.
Non pas que je souffre d’un gros handicap, mais j’ai tout de même conscience de faire beaucoup de fautes d’orthographe dans mes écrits, maintenant vous en connaissez la cause. Pour pallier à ce problème d’inversion, un graphiste néerlandais souffrant de dyslexie, Christian Boer, a conçu une police de caractères permettant de mieux identifier les lettres : Une police d’écriture pour les dyslexiques.
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Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of written language, and applying them holds in place long-established principles that enable typography to communicate with efficiency and beauty. Handling these typographic details on the Web brings new challenges and restrictions that need to be considered. Setting Body Copy Good typography comes down to communicating information, and the basis of information is good old-fashioned body copy – simple blocks of text. Indentation or Space After a Paragraph? When signalling the end of a paragraph and the beginning of another, you can generally either indent or insert a space between the paragraphs.
But there is no hyphenation control in CSS. The Hyphen (al) Présentation et typo. Petit guide typographique à l’usage de l’internet.