EasyReading font is a

typeface A typeface (or font family) is the design of lettering that can include variations in size, weight (e.g. bold), slope (e.g. italic), width (e.g. condensed), and so on. Each of these variations of the typeface is a font. There are thousands ...

designed to support all of the Latin-alphabet-based languages existing in the world, including those ranging from Turkish and Indonesian, to Swedish. It was created by Federico Alfonsetti with a Design for All methodological approach to help dyslectics in reading with less difficulty and to increase reading speed, while also being a highly-readable font for typical readers. Currently, Easyreading is the only

in the world that has been certified by an independent scientific research project as "a valid compensatory tool for readers with dyslexia and at the same time a facilitating font for all types of readers" (translated from Italian). As a hybrid typeface, it combines serif and sans-serif letter characteristics in order to facilitate reading without readers mistaking those often read incorrectly. It also has widely calibrated spacing (

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) that is designed to facilitate legibility by being slightly greater than that of typical typefaces. Erik Spiekermann claims that Easyreading is a copy of his

ITC Officina ITC Officina is a font superfamily designed by Erik Spiekermann and released in 1990. It consists of ITC Officina Sans, ITC Officina Serif and ITC Officina Display, with bold, italic, and small-caps variations of each. {{Font-stub Sourc ...

Font.

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Library: in September 2015, Dr. Bachmann presented the EasyReading research at the EAMHID (European Association for Mental Health) international conference held in Florence. The abstracts of the conference proceedings, including that of Dr. Bachmann, were published in the "Journal of Mental Disability Research" (Vol. 59, September 2015), published by John Wiley & Sons at the end of the same month
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