Why I'm using the Atkinson Hyperllegible font
The sanest thing is to humbly accept whatever default font our overlords have chosen for us. Otherwise, you could walk along the same road I have taken so many times: find the puffing perfect typography for every particular project.
In olden times, the writer wrote and the editor edited. And the typographer picked a font from a limited number of choices, for those things were expensive.
If you were an amateur, well, your font was what your typewriter could produce. And if you were so brave as to self-publish back in those days, well, a tip from my heart, but still you probably accepted whatever the printer house had.
But if you start, I don't know, a blog, you can go places like bunny fonts and spend an eternity in the quest for something that would uniquely fit the style, tone, theme, and project.
Long story short, trust me, it's an exercise, not in futility but in hard, long, often frustrating labor.
OK, and from some time we've had Atkinson Hyperlegible1 which:
- It's got my official “Nice Enough” approval rating.
- It has all the glyphs I need.
- It's designed for people with visual difficulties, or old or tired.
And, I tell you what, being kind to my reader seems to be a nice thing to do. I know my criteria are a bit radical, even too simple, but this small fanatism saves me from much thinking, searching, and trials. Secondly, or rather, chiefly, it helps my reader if you allow me to reiterate.
So that's why I'm using the above mentioned font on all my blogs and projects. (I have like three, but it seems like I'm doing a lot of work if I put it that way).
Oh, and I beg you to consider accesibility in all you do. Most people have it hard enough.
~ Puffin
Hopefully, it's the font currently displayed on your screen.↩