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I’ve used it professionally on some occasions and tend to reach for it when a) its purported value outweighs its crude utilitarian aesthetic, or b) I want to loudly signal my awareness of “inclusive design”.


There is no perfect typeface. Atkinson is a very effective body typeface, but does suffer as a headline. So use something else. It's just a variant of Helvetica, Arial, and a bunch of others. I do wish founderies would provide typeface variants with the principles of hyper legibility applied. A Times New Roman Hyperlegible could be really handy even though it was designed for the newspaper so it is good at being read at small sizes to pack more content in a column. Inclusive design shouldn't be an afterthought. The principles of hyper legibility came from hard won lessons from interstate signage, transit signage, and flight deck control design. If you design it in from the beginning inclusivity is free.




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