Fonts don’t matter

If you’re an art director or font fanatic, you might want to sit down for this. Take a few deep breaths. Go to your happy place. Because I’m going to explain why fonts are overrated and what actually matters for readability.

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Fonts are overrated

I’m asked to talk about fonts so often that I consulted members of the Dyslexia Association here in Sweden. They are experts on readability and get font questions so often that they even had a prepackaged answer referencing different studies made on the subject.

Here’s the gist of what they had to say:

The energy put on fonts is hugely overrated. There are other things that are of much greater importance for our members.
– Representative from the Swedish Dyslexic Association

The folks at Dyslexia Action agree with this:

Research shows that fonts matter relatively little.
– dyslexiaaction.org

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Read full article at Source: Fonts don’t matter – Axess Lab