Yeah, I just looked, enlarging to see detail—I don’t know, maybe the ‘circle’ part is bigger on the small b than on the small d. It’s unclear.
Thanks for the response, though. As you say, maybe they appear more distinct to someone who does have dyslexia.
There is any font any way you want, hundred thousands of them. And if you are still not happy, you can tweak your own or even make it from scratch. I am not sure at all about the legibility of the mirror images for b and d or q and p, I have my doubts. Times New Roman is an excellent font for many uses. It was designed for the newspaper The Times (London) and one of the aims was to cram more words in a page keeping the legibility. Calibri is also a very good font. It has no serifs, the letters are more clearly separated (althoug you can adjust kerning in any text programm, so that is not really an argument, but mostly people don’t fiddle with that adjustment and then it is true by default) and I am willing to believe that it marginally improves legibility for a small subsection of society and it doesn’t bother the rest much. It does no harm. Here you can read the wikiarticle about Calibri. It ends like this:
In January 2023, the United States Department of State retired Times New Roman in favor of Calibri for official communications and documents due to superior readability on a computer screen, and accessibility, since its sans-serif nature would cause fewer problems in the usage of text-to-speech and optical character recognition tools.[38][39] In December 2025, the State Department switched back to using Times New Roman. In an internal memorandum, Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated the change was intended to “restore decorum and professionalism to the department’s written work”[40] and “abolish yet another wasteful DEIA program”.
The internal memorandum is a non sequitur. And it is not about a font, it is about spite. Fuck Rubio too.
Yes, I suppose some have created fonts specifically for those who are dealing with dyslexia.
It’s an interesting topic.
I am am bit of a typography nerd, this makes it personal to me. The ignorance is loathsome, and they are proud of it.
A good general descriptor for the Regime, really.
Truly. “Because we can,” is another.
I don’t think starting one will produce the rah-rah-rally-round-the-flag effect it did for Dubya. Nobody seriously believes “Venezwayler” is a threat to the US.
$45 million to the Taliban?! What the hell?
I hate that I laughed.
This might be the first ever thing I’ve agreed with Vance about and people taking the statement to literally mean banning those numbers clearly don’t live with pre-teens!
My son made a 6-7 Christmas ornament. He spots it everywhere, makes up stupid math riddles to get us to say the numbers, it’s constant and everywhere. I’m ready for the meme to die, already, which probably means it’s here to stay and I’ll be saying it soon.
6-7.
In other news…
US threatens new ICC sanctions unless court pledges not to prosecute Trump
WASHINGTON, Dec 10 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, a Trump administration official said, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not.
If the court does not act on this U.S. demand and two others - dropping investigations of Israeli leaders over the Gaza war and formally ending an earlier probe of U.S. troops over their actions in Afghanistan - Washington may penalize more ICC officials and could sanction the court itself, the official said.
4-1
Which is, apparently, also a thing and this tired and annoyed mom just wants to yeet it into oblivion, no cap.
10-4.
Gosh, 6-7, 4-1, 10-4? I feel like I’m at the racetrack, looking at the tote board.
(Hey, I hit a nice exacta earlier today, so I’m in a racing kind of mood.)
Or as the cool kids say, to 23 skidoo.
Just as long as 88 doesn’t go mainstream.
I would absolutely shut that one down.
For the rest, while I am annoyed, it’s also pretty funny to just yell back random numbers or to try to do the 6-7 hand motion in the worst, uncool mom kind of way, or to badger him with fake explanations of what I think it means.
It’s just part of having kids. I get Rick Rolled a couple of times a week, I join in on commenting about sweats and who’s cooking when he plays Fortnite, I think I’m actually saying “no cap” sarcastically too much and it’s becoming part of my vocabulary.
So you’d 86 it?
Amusing anecdote; back when I was a manager at a Jack in the Box, one of my shift managers was telling me about an incident the previous night when he had kicked out a belligerent drunk.
He meant to tell me he 86ed the guy after the guy had called him a homophobic slur, but forgot the number he meant to say, and told me, and I quote, “He called me a faggot, so I 69ed him”.
I was fortunately able to restrain myself from laughing long enough to tell him that I didn’t think that was what he meant to say.
I was told there would be no math.
They didn’t give you the 4-1-1?