High Readability of Font Type and Font Size Among Dyslexic Students

This paper discusses the study that have been conducted with dyslexic students to measures their reading performance on selected font types and font sizes. The objective of this study is to identify font types and font sizes that helps to increase readability among dyslexic when it comes to reading digital presentation such as reading from educational website or the use of educational courseware and online materials. Eight font types and five types of font sizes that have been chosen to be experimented by the dyslexic students. This paper summarizes the findings from the experiments which highlights the right font type and sizes that suited dyslexic students the most. Shorter reading time and less reading mistakes occurred for the Comic Sans MS font and 24-point size for dyslexic readers through the experiments. It is hoped that findings from this study will provide valuable insight on the impact of font types and font sizes to readability for dyslexic students.