PICS: Attempting to Read This Sign Will Give You An Impression Of The Frustration Of Living With Dyslexia

Living with dyslexia can be a battle of patience. Although people are aware of the condition, understanding the struggle to read or decipher letters, numbers and sentences is unimaginable for those unaffected. Now one graphic designer Daniel Britton wants to impress the real frustration of sufferers with a new font – one he’s titled ‘dyslexic’. The following sign is an insight into the eyes and mind of a dyslexic person… how long does it take you to work out the meaning?   The text actually reads: ‘This typography is not designed to recreate what it would be like to read if you were dyslexic it is designed to simulate the feeling of reading with dyslexia by slowing the reading time of the viewer down to a speed of which someone who has dyslexia would read.’ Although this isn’t what a person with dyslexia sees on a page, the struggle to make out the meaning is similar to the frustration Daniel feels on a daily basis. The 25-year old from Kent told the Mail Online: “I was diagnosed when I was young as a partial-dyslexic, but no one understood it. I remember when I was eight-years-old, all I got was try harder, read harder, you’re lazy, you’re stupid, you’re thick.” Daniel now hopes his signs, and website, will help people have a deeper understanding of what living with dyslexia really means. Story via Metro UK