Support. I see no reason not to and it would make Scratch more accessible. I just want it to be an option in Settings that can be toggled.

I managed to download and install the OpenDyslexic font from https://www.dafont.com/open-dyslexic.font. Then I changed the Chrome font to OpenDyslexic using a font changer extension.

I have set the “Standard font” to OpenDyslexic and “Minimum font size” to 10.

Whereas in English some text in the blocks sticks to the block's left and right side, when I switch to, e.g., Italian, the visualization is perfect. Only drawbacks for now:

• the frame of the sprite's, costume's and sound's thumbnails are shorter than usual. This makes the thumbnail info (e.g. costume size) a bit difficult to read
  
• the font in the speech bubbles on the Stage is still Arial
  
• the extension I tried applies to all websites (but you can enable and disable it from the Chrome extensions menu)
  

s_federici wrote:

I managed to download and install the OpenDyslexic font from https://www.dafont.com/open-dyslexic.font. Then I changed the Chrome font to OpenDyslexic using a font changer extension.

I have set the “Standard font” to OpenDyslexic and “Minimum font size” to 10.

Whereas in English some text in the blocks sticks to the block's left and right side, when I switch to, e.g., Italian, the visualization is perfect. Only drawbacks for now:

• the frame of the sprite's, costume's and sound's thumbnails are shorter than usual. This makes the thumbnail info (e.g. costume size) a bit difficult to read
  
• the font in the speech bubbles on the Stage is still Arial
  
• the extension I tried applies to all websites (but you can enable and disable it from the Chrome extensions menu)
  

Yeah, but not everyone's skilled enough to do that. My idea is that it would be easily accessible in the settings page.

Support, like everyone else said, this would be helpful for dyslexic people

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full support ! this would be a helpful setting that’d improve the site

Support so scratch can be a lot better for people who are Dyslexic. I can see a good amount of help with this.

Support, scratch is welcome to everyone, that should include people with dyslexia. Also, I find that font easier to read than the current font so that's more support.

I have never in my life seen a suggestion have 100% support. Anyways I support because this would be good for people with dyslexia and also some people without it who sometimes find reading hard (like me for some reason).

Yeah support for the above reasons.

The_Game_ wrote:

I have never in my life seen a suggestion have 100% support. Anyways I support because this would be good for people with dyslexia and also some people without it who sometimes find reading hard (like me for some reason).

Sorry but I have to break the chain. No support.

There isn't enough evidence that this font actually helps dyslexic people, and Scratch is pretty stingy about adding new features so as to not clutter the UI.

Support, this doesn't seem like anything that could get in anyone's way, and is just a great feature to make the site more inclusive.

Is it normal that I find the font REALLY hard to read? like the sentence would normally take me under 10 seconds to read, while with the font, i have to spend an entire minute reading it

like is that normal?

Support because it could help dyslexic people a lot with reading faster.

blablablahello wrote:

Is it normal that I find the font REALLY hard to read? like the sentence would normally take me under 10 seconds to read, while with the font, i have to spend an entire minute reading it

like is that normal?

I think I might read it a little slower than normal, idk

blablablahello wrote:

Is it normal that I find the font REALLY hard to read? like the sentence would normally take me under 10 seconds to read, while with the font, i have to spend an entire minute reading it

like is that normal?

Hmm… I normally read really fast, like Who Was series sized books in less than half an hour fast. But I just read that text REALLY REALLY FAST, so, Im experiencing the opposite

blablablahello wrote:

Is it normal that I find the font REALLY hard to read? like the sentence would normally take me under 10 seconds to read, while with the font, i have to spend an entire minute reading it

like is that normal?

Yes, I think opendyslexic is completely painful to read, however, there are (in my opinion) way better dyslexia-friendly fonts.

blablablahello wrote:

Is it normal that I find the font REALLY hard to read? like the sentence would normally take me under 10 seconds to read, while with the font, i have to spend an entire minute reading it

like is that normal?

I used to read it the same as everything else but now it's a little harder/slower?
it probably is
or sleep deprived

I mean the font did allow me to not possibly make any mistakes while reading the text by slowing me down, so maybe thats the point?

rdococ wrote:

The_Game_ wrote:

I have never in my life seen a suggestion have 100% support. Anyways I support because this would be good for people with dyslexia and also some people without it who sometimes find reading hard (like me for some reason).

Sorry but I have to break the chain. No support.

There isn't enough evidence that this font actually helps dyslexic people, and Scratch is pretty stingy about adding new features so as to not clutter the UI.

1. This does help, and it's actually easier to read then normal and I am not dyslexic
2. This feature would be very very helpful, and it could fit in the account settings or profile or somewhere

You should reconsider (no offense)

Edit 1: Also there are many more fonts, if this one is bad then there is another that's probably better

Edit 2: It allows you to make no mistakes which helps dyslexic people read better