Fonts, Dyslexia, and Accessibility

EVE Technology and Research Center Player Features & Ideas
1

I wanted to discuss the fonts used in EVE. The font style is sans seriff in most cases, commas look very close to periods, and the kerning between letters is very narrow, which can cause letters like “dlb” to appear like “db”.

EVE is a great game because it’s got something for everyone. We can change our UI colors to better suit players who are colorblind, and that’s fantastic. I’d love to see more accessibility in EVE, and if we can one day load in fonts, choose fonts, or if there’s another accessibility solution that makes EVE User Interfaces tolerable for those with dyslexia, I think you’ll win some brownie points in the accessibility department of game dev

2

Oh the cries that would echo through new eden if they added comic sans as an option.

Before the lynch mob forms? Comic sans is considered to be dyslexic friendly.

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3

We already have pretty good unicode symbol support for a video game, but they should also add emoji support.

4

As long the only person who sees it is the one who selected the font, I don’t see a problem with letting the user choose whatever font works best for them.

I’m not dyslexic, but I find the EVE font a little hard to read myself. Just old eyes, I suppose. I’d prefer a monospaced font or at least a choice of sans serif.