Typotheque worked on a largest project up to date, developing a series of fonts to be easy to read by the widest range of readers. The project identifies and addresses situations where people are excluded from using certain technologies, and worked with digitally disadvantaged communities to support marginalised languages. For the Latin script Typotheque team carried out a series of laboratory acuity tests at the National Centre of Ophthalmology in France to determine the ideal letter proportions for their visually impaired patients, and developed fonts that benefit readers with declining vision. Zed Text is an exceptionally readable typeface that has been shown to benefit healthy readers as well as those with visual impairments such as age-related macular degeneration, loss of central vision, peripheral vision loss and blurred vision.

Additional resources Syllabics Initiative
Full partnership with the Heiltsuk Community
Syllabics Movie
Designing fonts with low-vision readers in mind: A reading acuity experiment
Previous literature on the need for font adaptation
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Zed Font resources
Zed, a sans fro the needs of the 21st century
Zed specimen
Zed postcards
South Asia research
Video “November—the most comprehensive type system for South Asia”
Article November — a comprehensive type system for South Asia
Braille research Character Spacing Article