Christian Boer, 33, is a Dutch graphic designer who is dyslexic and who began developing the font in 2008 while a student at the University of Twente in the Netherlands to “make reading a less arduous task,” according to his website. He eventually turned the project into his graduate school thesis. Independent studies demonstrated that both adults and children with dyslexia read more quickly and with fewer errors when reading documents composed with the Dyslexie font.
