Places I've officially uploaded the latest stable versions to are dafont.com and gumroad(see link at opendyslexic.org.)
The latest version may not always be the best version. If you want a stable version, check github for the latest stable or working beta including otf's and ttf's, or DaFont for a stable otf.
If you are upgrading your copy of this font, you may want to remove previous version first.
Typeface/font to help readability, and help readability for some of the symptoms of dyslexia.
Your brain can sometimes do funny things to letters. OpenDyslexic tries to help prevent some of these things from happening. Letters have heavy weighted bottoms to provide an indication of orientation to make it more difficult to confuse with other similar letters. Consistently weighted bottoms can also help reenforce the line of text. The unique shapes of each letter can help prevent flipping and swapping.
The italic style for OpenDyslexic has been crafted still be able to be used for emphasis while still being readable.
Windows: Copy .OTF files to C:\Windows\Fonts MacOSX: Drag font files to Font Book, and click install
Thanks to everyone that donated during the Glyphs.app fundraising:
- Cheryl Marshall
- Anonymous (MG). <-- look at that, anonymous supports this. :D
- Eric Bailey
- Steven V James
- @nguarracino
- Plow Software, LLC
You guys are super cool! Thanks!
Also, thanks to:
- @glyphsapp for helping me learn Glyphs properly.
- Rob Carpenter of Oak Grove College in England for the Alta style
- The awesome folk @ TEDxGateway that still have yet to release the OpenDyslexic TEDx talk.
It is based on Bitstream Vera Sans because of the nice license it has.
OpenDyslexic is not packaged by me as an .exe file. It is packaged as a zip file, with no installer, so you know what you are getting.
If you were compelled to pay for this font, ask for a refund. This font is provided at no charge. Donations are cool, but optional. :)
The license for this font is:
♡ Copying is an act of love. Please copy. Bitstream License:
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The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but no copy of one or more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by itself.
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- Pick your font family and then select from the
'complete'directory.- If you are on Windows pick a font with the
'Windows Compatible'suffix.- This includes specific tweaks to ensure the font works on Windows, in particular monospace identification and font name length limitations
- If you are limited to monospaced fonts (because of your terminal, etc) then pick a font with the
'Mono'suffix.- This denotes that the Nerd Font glyphs will be monospaced not necessarily that the entire font will be monospaced
- If you are on Windows pick a font with the
By the Nerd Font policy, the variant with the 'Mono' suffix is not supposed to have any ligatures.
Use the non-Mono variants to have ligatures.
Once you narrow down your font choice of family (Droid Sans, Inconsolata, etc) and style (bold, italic, etc) you have 2 main choices:
- download an already patched font from the
completefolder- This is most likely the one you want. It includes all of the glyphs from all of the glyph sets. Only caution here is that some fonts have glyphs in the same code point so to include everything some had to be moved to alternate code points.
- patch your own variations with the various options provided by the font patcher (see each font's readme for full list of combinations available)
- This is the option you want if the font you use is not already included or you want maximum control of what's included
- This contains a list of all permutations of the various glyphs. E.g. You want the font with only Octicons or you want the font with just Font Awesome and Devicons. The goal is to provide every combination possible in this folder.
For more information see: The FAQ
The combinations and total number of combinations are provided here for reference if you want to create your own variation of a patched Nerd Font.
Combinations are no longer included by default because of the large inflation in size it caused the Repository and the amount of time it takes to rebuild all of the combinations. This issue would exponentially get worse as the numbers of Fonts and Glyph Sets provided increase.