A graphic designer from the Netherlands, Christian Boer, has developed a new font to support his dyslexia.

The font, called Dyslexie, isn’t the first of its kind, but according to Scientific American in an article published Wednesday, “it has received much display from sufferers.”

Boer first designing his font in 2008 while studying in the Netherlands, and in 2010 a fellow student conducted an independent study on the font as part of a master s thesis project.

Participants in the study said the font improved their reading exactness and allowed them to read for longer periods of time before tiring

According to Scientific American, the font tweaks letters of the alphabet that are commonly misinterpret, such as d and m, to make them easier to know. Letters are also made to look heavier at the bottom by virtue of thicker lines, for example, and the differences among letters such as their openings and incline are also exaggerated to make distinguishing them easier. Capital letters and punctuation are rendered in boldface.

Some other fonts designed to assist dyslexic readers are Read Regular, Lexia Readable, Tiresias and Sassoon.

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