(Photo: Devon Knight/The Guardian)
The Spaghetti Incident, a new restaurant in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, has devised an ingenious way to get people to buy its spaghetti. Besides offering several tasty varieties, the restaurant offers its spaghetti for takeout in cones. The result is that people wandering the neighborhood for amusement can grab a cone and a fork and eat it as they stroll. Spaghetti, a food that is normally messy to eat, becomes completely portable by this method. Dave Bry of The Guardian explains:
Eating spaghetti out of a cone is, oddly, easier than eating it from a plate. This is because of the well-known “twirl method” that sophisticated humans have learned to use to eat pasta. The cone shape facilitates the trick by giving natural purchase to the tines of the fork as they twist. The curved sides of the cone help guide the strands of spaghetti into a ball around the fork. (Emily Post recommended using a spoon to achieve the effect). The twirl negates the need for spearing any bit of food with the fork.
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Btw, I found articles talking about this font dating 2009, don't know why this is making the news now. (Apparently they used to offer it for free for personal use back then.)
There are other (some free) dyslexia fonts around: http://www.dyslexic.com/fonts
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Annual subscription price including VAT structure
Elementary € 225, -
BB School € 445, -
Vocational higher education institution or € 775, -
Institutions and companies:
- Less than 5 employees € 225, -
- 5-30 employees € 445, -
- 31-100 employees € 775, -
- 101-1000 mederwerkers € 975, -
- Over 1000 employees € 1950, -
Exclusively for use on a website € 285, -
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ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION?? Are they kidding??
pass...
So for my small business of 9 people (one of whom is dyslexic)
5-30 at € 775 per year + shipping € 14.49...em not going to happen
This made me curious to know if there were other dyslexia friendly fonts available for a more sensible price, so far:
-specifically designed-
Lexia Readable available from K-Type
Sylexiad available from robsfonts
-seem to be useful for some people-
ClearviewADA from Terminal Design
Optima available from boldfonts
Sassoon Sans from clubtype
Myriad Pro available from Adobe (worth doing a search for)
Comic Sans look on your current windows machine under embarrassing fonts
What I don't understand is why anyone would pay an _annual_ fee just to use a font. I can understand a one-time download cost (say, $1 USD or something cheap like that), but an _annual_ fee? And not a cheap one at that!
I'm not dyslexic myself, but as a software engineer, I spend hours every day staring at text (source code). So any font that's easier to read interests me.
Treatments that play back recordings that have been lengthened have been shown to increase a dyslexic's visual cues on the letters and their representational sound. Some show a high recovery rate. The font is a great tool, but it's like learning to walk with a crutch on a broken leg rather than mending the bone.