Font Fight

Some designers and readers note how a typeface has a particular "personality."

Take a look at this video that displays a "font fight" between different typefaces, some of which are mentioned in Chapter 10. How are some of these typefaces personified? How do they use stereotypes? Are these stereotypes justified, or possibly offensive?

How would you personify the typefaces instead?

OpenDyslexic Font

Chapter 10 of The New Media Writer discusses how typography can affect readers and what to consider when choosing a typeface.

This article discusses a new typeface developed for readers that have dyslexia, particularly when reading online. As the article states, the font, designed by Abelardo Gonzalez, "features heavily-weighted bottoms to help give letters 'gravity,' thus curbing the brain's ability to rotate characters and make them look like other letters."

'OpenDyslexic,' Free Font, Helps People With Dyslexia Read Online