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Many claim that Times New Roman is the most readable or accessible font – but is this really true? We dive into font research to explore the accessibility of Arial, Comic Sans, and fonts like Open Dyslexic. Is there one that stands out from the rest? Or is the world of typefaces as subjective as our opinions about design?

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A big thanks to Paola Kassa and Matthew Shifrin for their contributions to this episode.
Created & produced by Vanessa Hill. Edited by Dominique Taylor. Research by Hannah Thomasy

REFERENCES 📚

READABILITY
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2003-1...
https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/634067....
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/285803...
Emotional content and colours:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18459...
https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/31...

ACCESSIBILITY
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/25...
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26993....
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/25...
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf...
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/1...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Alex Chen’s post:   / the-controversy-of-accessible-type  

FONT HISTORY
https://www.nypl.org/blog/2014/12/09/...
https://www.fonts.com/font/monotype/a...
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/20...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/barrycol...