ABOUT

One in ten people are thought to have dyslexia, that’s at least 780 million people worldwide. Dyslexia is a common neurodiversity that affects our ability to read, write, and learn. It challenges millions of people around the globe, regardless of culture, age, language, and society.

What if the answer could lie in typography? What if we could change the way we read, by changing the text font and design it to adjust specifically to our needs?

Working in collaboration with educational therapist, Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Google Fonts and a team of typographic designers, we created an open-access, variable typographic system, Lexend, a font designed to change the way the world reads.

The Lexend Project is a unique creative collaboration of Dr. Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Founder of Lexend, Google Fonts, and type designers Thomas Jockin, Linnea Lundquist, Santiago Orozco, David Berlow, Héctor Gómez, Rosalie Wagner, and Jeromy Lohmann, Head of Brand at CosmosDirekt, and Superunion.

Lexend combines the newest technology in font software and a professional type design to pull together the most important typographic factors in reading proficiency into a variable font. This is designed to fluctuate based on a reader’s Words Correct per Minute Score – a typographic system that evolves with the reader to make the words more readable, based on who’s reading them.

By creating an open-access, variable typographic system through Google Fonts that can be easily accessed globally and on any digital device, The Lexend Project partnership is helping to make reading accessible and easy for everyone.

Since Lexend was launched on the Google Fonts platform, it has been viewed over 2 billion times and has been downloaded more than 500,000 times – changing the way the world reads and improving opportunities for hundreds of millions of people worldwide.