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OpenDyslexic

Designed By

Abbie Gonzalez

4 Styles Sans Serif

Letters for
every day.

OpenDyslexic · Regular

Compare the family in headings, short labels and paragraph text.

4 styles available. Compare the specimens below, or enter your own text.

Download OpenDyslexic ↓

OTF · SIL Open Font License 1.1

Set Your Own Text

Change the style and size to compare the letterforms.

Chapter 3 starts on page 41

A Clear Hierarchy

OpenDyslexic · Regular

Headings, labels and running text.

Departures09:00 →

Before You Travel

The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.

Platform 04Ticket Office →

4 Styles,
One Family

Every available style is shown below in its own font file.

Regular400

Chapter 3 starts on page 41

Italic400

Chapter 3 starts on page 41

Bold700

Chapter 3 starts on page 41

Bold Italic700

Chapter 3 starts on page 41

OpenDyslexic has shipped on the Kindle Paperwhite and on Kobo e-readers, has been in Instapaper since 2012 and is a font option on Wikipedia under some skins, which is a long reach for a typeface 1 person put out in 2011. Abbie Gonzalez made it, and the project’s site describes it as designed against some common symptoms of dyslexia, a careful wording.

The research has been less generous. In a 2013 eye-tracking study by Rello and Baeza-Yates, Spanish readers with dyslexia read no faster in it and their fixations got no shorter. Broadbent’s 2023 study found no difference in test scores, although most participants who had a preference chose OpenDyslexic. Some readers find it comfortable, and the evidence goes about that far. Wikipedia’s article says plainly that it is no cure.

It is a very wide face, taking about 78% more room on a line than Arial does, so plan a layout around it from the start.

The OpenType set is fuller than you might guess for an accessibility font: old style and lining figures, tabular and proportional spacing for them, fractions, superscripts and subscripts, discretionary ligatures and 2 stylistic sets, plus Greek, Cyrillic and Vietnamese. Regular, Italic, Bold and Bold Italic, built in Glyphs.

OpenDyslexic type specimen with letters and figures
OpenDyslexic · Type Specimen

Characters & Figures

1,634 glyphs reported in the reference style. This selection shows 400 recorded characters.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 & @ ? !

View The Recorded Character Selection
!"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖ×ØÙÚÛÜÝÞßàáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõö÷øùúûüýþÿĀāĂ㥹ĆćĈĉĊċČčĎďĐđĒēĔĕĖėĘęĚěĜĝĞğĠġĢģĤĥĦħĨĩĪīĮįİıIJijĴĵĶķĸĹĺĻļĽľĿŀŁłŃńŅņŇňʼnŊŋŌōŎŏŐőŒœŔŕŖŗŘřŚśŜŝŞşŠšŢţŤťŦŧŨũŪūŬŭŮůŰűŲųŴŵŶŷŸŹźŻżŽžſƁƆƇƈƉƊƎƏƐƑƒƓƔƖƗƘƙƚƝƠơƤƥƩƬƭƮƯưƱƲƳƴƷǀǁǂǃDŽDždžLJLjljNJNjnjǍǎǏǐǑǒǓǔǕǖǗǘǙǚǛǜǝǞǟǠǡǣǤǥǦǧǨǩǪǫǬǭǮǯDZDzdzǴǵ

The Font Files

Download
OpenDyslexic

4 OTF styles with the accompanying CSS, README and license information.

Download ZIP · 508 KB ↓
Version
0.990
License
SIL Open Font License 1.1
Read The Font License ↗

Install On Your Computer

Extract the ZIP first. On Windows, select the font files and choose Install from the context menu. On macOS, open the files in Font Book and choose Install.

Use On A Website

Keep the font files and the included stylesheet together. Update the stylesheet path to match your project.

<link rel="stylesheet"
  href="/fonts/opendyslexic/opendyslexic.css">

body {
  font-family: 'OpenDyslexic', sans-serif;
}

Keep the copyright and license notices with redistributed files.

Heading & Body

Compare a larger heading with the same family at reading size.

OpenDyslexic Heading · OpenDyslexic Body

Before You Travel

The morning service leaves at nine. Tickets are available at the station, and the platform is listed on the departure board. Keep your ticket until the end of the journey.