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Boer graduated from the  Utrecht Art Academy in 2008 and developed  the typeface as his final thesis project. \r\n\r\n\tIn 2008, Boer first considered the idea of a  coloured letter layout to enable people with  dyslexia to read more easily, and learnt about  rotating, reversing letters and word skipping  (all of which are common problems whilst  reading for people with dyslexia). As a result of  this research, he came to the conclusion that  people with  dyslexia have problems  recognising letter forms and objects in 2D that  do not occur if they are represented as 3D  objects. Starting with this premise, all letters  are approached as 3D objects and then  transformed to 2D letters. This makes every  letter totally unique which avoids confusion  between letters.  Another feature is that the  capital letters are bolder, in order to help the  reader to identity the beginning of each  sentence. The font’s primary concern is to  maximise efficiency in reading  comprehension rather than to create letter  forms that are aesthetically pleasing. \r\n\r\n\tBoer began selling the typeface in 2009 and  clients now include Pixar, Nintendo, Shell, and  Google who offer the font to employees. The  regular version of the font remains free to  individual users. Boer has won awards for his  work on the typeface including the Smart  Future Minds Aware 2011 in Amsterdam and  nominations for the Fast Company Innovation  by Design Awards 2012 and INDEX Design to  Improve Life awards (2013) of Copenhagen.","historicalContext":"","briefDescription":"Christian Boer; sheet of Dyslexie Font Alphabet, early 21st century","bibliographicReferences":[],"production":"","productionType":{"text":"Design","id":"THES48872"},"contentDescription":"","contentPlaces":[],"associatedPlaces":[],"contentPerson":[],"associatedPerson":[],"contentOrganisations":[],"associatedOrganisations":[],"contentPeople":[],"associatedPeople":[],"contentEvents":[],"associatedEvents":[],"contentOthers":[],"contentConcepts":[],"contentLiteraryRefs":[],"galleryLabels":[],"partNumbers":["E.759-2017"],"accessionNumberNum":"759","accessionNumberPrefix":"E","accessionYear":2017,"otherNumbers":[],"copyNumber":"","aspects":["WHOLE"],"assets":[],"recordModificationDate":"2025-04-17","recordCreationDate":"2017-11-28","availableToBook":false}}