Greetings,
I am a legally-blind small businessman. I produce the EZ2See® weekly planner calendar. Google "EZ2See calendar" or visit my website at: EZ2SeeProducts.com to see what I'm doing.
My graphic person uses a Helvetica font. The letters are okay, but not great. The number fonts present even greater problems for those with vision impairments. I have run different shapes past many people and know what improvements are needed.
I am looking for either suggestions on a far better font for my purposes or to hire a font designer to work with me to create the EZ2See font.
Thank you for your interest or any help you can provide.
Sincerely,
Edward Cohen
EZ2SeeProducts.com
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This used to drive me nuts on the iPhone. I jailbroke my phone just to be able to change the font, at one point. Too much trouble to keep it up, though.
Looking at your layouts:
Have you tested any of these layouts or any of this typesetting with your actual users? Unless and until you do that, I don’t see the merit in low-vision persons’ buying your products.
That 'ridiculousness' is exactly why it would work well. This isn't a calendar designed for folks with normal vision per-se but for people who have vision impairments. Fonts designed for small-size use will work very well for those kinds of readers.
Futura has quite distinct figures.
Perhaps the style of 3 which has a sharp top right would make that number less like 8, but then again, perhaps too much like 5?