Lexend: A Variable Font Empirically Shown to Improve Reading-Proficiency

Lexend is intended to reduce visual stress and so improve reading performance. Designed with dyslexia and struggling readers in mind, education therapist Bonnie Shaver-Troup worked with Thomas Jockin to produce a font series thats becomes wider and more openly spaced. Lexend is a variable font with a weight axis thanks to a collaboration with type foundry Font Bureau.