OpenDyslexicAlta Italic Font

Open Dyslexic Alta Italic, adapted and expanded by Abelardo Gonzalez, is a free comic display font with a pronounced forward lean and an easygoing, drawn quality. Its letters shift between broad curves and narrower straight strokes, with softly rounded corners, uneven weight, and a loose rhythm that keeps the line lively rather than mechanically uniform.

Designers addressing younger or casual audiences can use it for educational posters, game menus, and children's publishing, where the tilted forms bring movement without turning the text into a novelty. Its playful but restrained drawing also suits independent comics and community event graphics aimed at families and early readers.

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OpenDyslexic is a font created to help readers with dyslexia. Its bottom-heavy design and distinct character shapes are intended to reduce confusion between letters.

OpenDyslexic (open-dyslexic) by Abelardo Gonzalez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. Provided that visible credit is given, it may be used in ebooks, ebook readers, physical books, and websites.

Included styles:

- OpenDyslexic
- OpenDyslexic with alternative rounded “a” characters
- OpenDyslexicMono for fixed-width text

The font was updated to fix printing issues in Yosemite.