{"id":337,"date":"2020-05-23T09:31:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-23T14:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ayling.tech\/blog\/?p=337"},"modified":"2023-11-06T07:44:39","modified_gmt":"2023-11-06T12:44:39","slug":"ease-of-reading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2020\/ease-of-reading\/","title":{"rendered":"Ease of reading"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I am a big advocate of using research to improve our daily lives. Some research is tangible, such as the invention of a device or machine that you can buy and use, but others is less so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A recent piece of research was completed by Shaver-Troup where she found that the font that some text is written in has a measurable impact on how easy it is to read. With Thomas Jockin&#8217;s help, she created a font named Lexend which is easier to read. I am now using that on this site to make it easier to read (November 2023 update: <a href=\"https:\/\/sl.bing.net\/j0wbFEtZ6TA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Source<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexend.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Download the Lexend font for your own use<\/a>, and post in the comments if you would like me to explain how to add it to a WordPress or non-WordPress site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a big advocate of using research to improve our daily lives. Some research is tangible, such as the invention of a device or machine that you can buy and use, but others is less so. A recent piece of research was completed by Shaver-Troup where she found that the font that some text is written in has a measurable impact on how easy it is to read. With Thomas Jockin&#8217;s help, she created a font named Lexend which&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/2020\/ease-of-reading\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[109,108,49,107],"class_list":["post-337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-code","tag-font","tag-readability","tag-reading","tag-science"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1241,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/1241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shortbooks.online\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}