AI typeface shapeshifts for speedy reading

The appearance of text affects its readability. Dyslexia-friendly fonts, for instance, tend to be sans serif, widely spaced, and without underlining, italics, and other variation to avoid a crowded appearance. While some fonts are considered more readable than others, everyone has their individual preferences and needs regarding typeface. The team of researchers at TU Darmstadt's Centre for Cognitive Science began by investigating how the appearance of text affects its readability, with a view to creating fonts which can adapt to improve readability. Once they had developed a technique for assessing reading speed, they needed to develop a method for synthesising new fonts to work alongside it.