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Sometimes I get sniped by Hacker News posts, and this one plunged me down a rabbit hole for coding fonts. Many coding fonts are monospaced slab serifs: in other words, each glyph takes the same width, and each glyph looks like a stick figure, with constant stroke width (a.k.a. weight) throughout the glyph. But as the Internet stranger uncanneyvalley pointed out, there’s decent overlap between “fonts good for coding” and “fonts good for dyslexia”: being able to easily distinguish between visually...