scriptbin has long offered overriding the font used to show a script's text, including three variants of two typefaces designed to make reading easier for people with dyslexia: OpenDyslexic, its fixed-width variant OpenDyslexic Mono, and Lexie Readable. The letter shapes of these typefaces have been drawn with special focus on making recognizable shapes and/or avoiding traps that can cause letters to become hard to distinguish.

Today, I came across the Braille Institute's Atkinson Hyperlegible, which comes at a similar problem from a similar angle. It is meant to provide a typeface with distinctive and easy to read letterforms, specifically for low-vision readers (and may also help readers with dyslexia). It has now been added as an option.

To try out any of these alternative fonts (including the newcomer), on any script's page, change to another entry in the dropdown list above the script text, where it at first says "Original font". If you are a low-vision reader, you may already know that scriptbin scales to zooming in or increasing the font size with the browser's default functionality, or that you can use the other dropdowns below the font dropdown to also bump the text size for the script specifically, or widen the script area specifically. Switching to light or dark mode with the switch in the site header may also help.

(As with Lexie Readable and OpenDyslexic at the time they were adopted, a small donation has been made to the Braille Institute as a token of appreciation.)