{"id":20,"date":"2022-03-10T15:48:54","date_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/?p=20"},"modified":"2022-03-10T15:48:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:48:56","slug":"lexend-and-why-you-should-use-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/2022\/03\/10\/lexend-and-why-you-should-use-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Lexend, and why you should use it!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Lexend\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/fonts.google.com\/specimen\/Lexend\" target=\"_blank\">Lexend<\/a> is a sans-serif font which was designed by Bonnie Shaver-Troup as a dyslexia-friendly open-source font intended to reduce visual stress for the reader. In fact, it&#8217;s what this website uses as its primary typeface i.e. you&#8217;re looking at it now!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is always important within academia to ensure our work is as accessible as possible to everyone. Therefore, using a dyslexia-friendly font in writings should be something we all try to do, along with other accessible practices such as using pronouns in digital communications, applying &#8220;alt-text&#8221; to digitally published images, and more generally working with accessibility in mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lexend is a sans-serif font which was designed by Bonnie Shaver-Troup as a dyslexia-friendly open-source font intended to reduce visual stress for the reader. In fact, it&#8217;s what this website uses as its primary typeface i.e. you&#8217;re looking at it now! It is always important within academia to ensure our work is as accessible as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/2022\/03\/10\/lexend-and-why-you-should-use-it\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lexend, and why you should use it!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10906,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10906"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20\/revisions\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/gwo0d\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}