The French studio typographies.fr in collaboration with the Regional Technical Centre for Visual Impairment has designed a Luciole typeface specifically for visually impaired people. The result of two years of research, this font is now available, free of charge, under a Creative Commons Attribution license (commercial use is permitted).
To offer the best possible reading experience to visually impaired people, typographers Jonathan Fabreguettes and Laurent Bourcellier of the typographies.fr foundry thought about the legibility of the letters based on a dozen design criteria, such as letter structure, word clutter and spacing.
Numbers, mathematical signs and punctuation have also been drawn from this angle. The Luciole can write almost all European alphabets as well as the majority of science notation (with Greek and mathematical symbols) used up to the baccalaureate.
In total, Le Luciole typeface includes more than 700 typographical signs in each of its variants.
Typographers point out that this typeface can be used by professionals in adapted publishing.
