A New Year – the same old me
Lexend is a science research based font
Yesterday, I installed a WordPress plugin to add a new font. I convert to a font called Lexend. Today, I convert this website over to this font. After all I am dyslexic. Here is the information on this font:
- The new font Lexend was developed by Thomas Jockin based on research studies. The font has been discussed in Stanford labs, at HP and Microsoft, was listed on Apple K-12 Assistive Technology from 2003-2005, has been referenced in research and patents by Adobe and has been released by Google Fonts as a variable font.
- Purpose of Lexend is to Optimizing Reading Performance. The digital world makes the ability to read quickly and efficiently essential in nearly all situations. From e-books, digital publications, websites and social media – the amount of information to read is growing.
- Reading is a rapid process. Specifically, the recognition of characters, words and connections occurs in nanoseconds. Every distraction can interrupt this process. This could be a typo, a change in the font size, an uncommon word wrap or anything else that distracts the reader for a very short time.
- Educational therapist Bonnie Shaver-Troup observed in 1999 that reading issues masked the individual’s true capability and intelligence. Shaver-Troup figured out that reading issues were a sensitivity to typographical factors. Step-by-step, she experimented with different factors such as shape, size and spacing to find a match between the text format and the individual visual processing abilities.Bonnie Shaver-Troup theorized that the reading performance improves with 3 factors:
- Character spacing creates a greater lag time and reduces potential crowding effects.
- Expanded scaling
- Sans-serif fonts reduces noise.
Lexend is a science research based font
Based on this research, she created the six formulations that alter text format that creates an immediate improvement in reading performance.
Now to the rest of my blog today
It is a new year and I am faced with the same old me. Last night after I feed one of the feral male cats that visit our house. I left the milk out and the refrigerator door open. My wife is now giving me the cold shoulder this morning. For many weeks, I have been pondering the problems of running two businesses and simultaneously keeping the house and yard up and doing my art.
Last spring of 2023, the internal medicine doctor upped my dose of the statin. I became a vegetable. Time flew by as I sat in a chair doom scrolling on my cell phone. Talked with my daughter, I went off statins began having more energy. I then went to an other doctor and got two drugs. One is Focalin that I used in one of my most productive times of my life and Prozac which I used during my divorce in 1995-1996. I was in depressing circumstances then. Now, I need the daily focus to get many things done.
New Year – the same old me
Physically, I am the weakest I have been in my life. So I have some changes to make. Welcome to 2024, a New Year – the same old me. Significantly, I need to change me. I have not really done this since 1996-1999 time period after my divorce. So today, I will sit down and mark up a 12 week course to change my behavior and figure out how to be more productive and get physically back in shape. I also have to clean up about two years of mess while on statins.
