Instapaper Updated With Dyslexia-Friendly Font, iOS 6 Support
After a few days of trickling releases, the flood of iOS-compatible updates has begun. Among them is Instapaper, our favorite read-later app here at Cult ofCult of Mac. Amongst the usual bug fixes and iOS6 compatibility comes a new font, optimized for dyslexic readers.
I started looking for a dyslexia-optimized font two years ago, but couldn't find one that was licensable for apps until now. I'm happy to report that in this update, I added the Open-Dyslexic font by Abelardo Gonzalez.
Its bottom-weighted characters are designed to reduce letter-swapping and increase differentiation between similar-looking letters, which improves readability for people with dyslexia. It's now the bottom-most option in the font list in Instapaper's text-controls ("aA") panel.
This is fantastic news, and looking at the font — Open-Dyslexic — with its weird fat-bottomed weighting and blown up to huge size might give us an idea of how regular text looks to dyslexix
- Source Instapaper Blog
Charlie Sorrel sits in his gadget nerve-center in Barcelona, Spain, and spits out words about various weird plastic widgets while the sun shines outside his iCave. Previously found at Wired.com's Gadget Lab covering cameras, power cables and sneaking in as much Apple-centric coverage as he could, Charlie spends his rare moments outside perched atop a bicycle and snapping photos. You can follow him on Twitter via 
