Disco Elysium Adds Dyslexia-Friendly Fonts In Multiple Languages

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There’s a lot of talking in Disco Elysium, and while The Final Cut’s voice acting provides an audio component for most of those words, it doesn’t replace them all. For someone with dyslexia, Disco Elysium could feel like an utterly inaccessible game just due to the walls of text it presents the player.

Disco Elysium’s latest update aims to make it more accessible to dyslexic players by adding new dyslexia-friendly fonts. English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, and Polish languages can now use the OpenDyslexic typeface, an "open sourced font created to increase readability for readers with dyslexia."

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As described on the OpenDyslexic website, "Letters have heavy weighted bottoms to indicate direction. You are able to quickly figure out which part of the letter is down which aids in recognizing the correct letter, and sometimes helps to keep your brain from rotating them around. Consistently weighted bottoms can also help reinforce the line of text. The unique shapes of each letter can help prevent confusion through flipping and swapping."

You can see each of these points in the example text provided in Disco Elysium’s update.

In Korean, Nanum Square Round has been added as the dyslexia-friendly font, and Russian users will receive Adys. Developer ZA/UM is still looking for dyslexia-friendly fonts for simplified and traditional Chinese.

"These fonts were chosen after careful consideration and consultations with translation teams and academics, but as always, feedback is welcome," wrote ZA/UM. "It’s important, especially for a game with over a million words, that we continue to make improvements to ensure everyone can