A font to help you read faster.
This font provides faster reading through facilitating the reading process by guiding the eyes through text with artificial fixation points. As a result, the reader is only focusing on the highlighted initial letters and lets the brain center complete the word. This allows you to read in supersonic speed.
DEMO wich supports live text input
DEMO wich converts a PDF with the fast-reading-fonts
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At the moment we have three different variations of the Fast-Font available.
1. Fast Font with Serifs:
2. Fast Font Sans (without Serifs):
3. Fast Font Sans (without Serifs) and Dots as spaces:
This Font is inspired by the Space Reading® technique Kam Knight discusses in his book "Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour".
The basic idea is to not concentrate on the single words but looking at the white spaces between every 3-4 words. Paying attention on the spaces prevents the eyes from narrowing the focus, thus we are able to pick up more peripheral information. At the beginning it can be quite challenging focusing on the white spaces.
This Font helps you by inserting a litte dot, that is much easier to focus.
In Word, enable "Use Contextual Alternates" in the OpenType Features.
You can also use it for programming, i.e. in VSCodium.
Just select your font and set "editor.fontLigatures": true,.
Or use it as the default font in your browser:
If you have a Kobo Reader with KoReader-Extension you can also use it there. Please refer to the Github Issue and the Corresponding Reddit Post
If you have a Kindle there are 4 easy steps to transfer the Fast-Fonts.
Step 1: Connect your Kindle to your computer Use a USB cable to connect your Kindle to your computer. Your Kindle should appear as a drive on your computer.
Step 2: Transfer the Font Files Open the "Kindle" drive on your computer. Donwload the fonts from this repository. Locate the "fonts" folder. If it doesn’t exist, create a new folder and name it "fonts". Copy the downloaded font files into this folder.
Step 3: Safely Eject Your Kindle After transferring the font files, safely eject your Kindle from your computer to ensure the files are properly saved.
Step 4: Select the Font on Your Kindle Open a book on your Kindle. Tap the top of the screen to access the toolbar. Tap the "Aa" icon to open the display settings. Go to the "Font" tab and select the Bionic Reading font you installed.
ATTENTION: Please be aware that only the new Kindles are that easy to handle. If you have an older Kindle (below 5th generation) please refer to the Github Issue
- free
- offline
- fast
- no (additional) client-side code
- compatible with existing programs
- privacy respecting
Are you interested in the technical aspects of the Fast-Font? You can find a detailed description about the background technology here: Tech-Guide
Apply the shown feature to any font you like. For example, using the addfeatures.py script.
If you prefer an WYSIWYG-Editor I can really recommend "FontLab", "FontCreator" or "Font-Forge".
To give you an introduction on how to do this, you can find an elaborate Tutorial for "FontLab 7" here: Tutorial
To use the font in other languages world wide it is necessary to enrich it with the appropriate characters and their substitution. With about 120 special characters nearly all European languages are covered. See opentype_feature.fea for an elaborate example.
The fonts stored in this repository are provided free of charge. If you like the project, we would appreciate your support.
- https://github.com/ansh/jiffyreader.com
- https://github.com/ahrm/chrome-fastread
- https://github.com/boldreader/chrome-extension / https://github.com/akay/firefox-fastread
- https://boldreader.github.io/boldreader/
- https://blog.readwise.io/bionic-reading-results/
- https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?t=6723
- https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?p=26623#p26623
- https://sparanoid.com/lab/opentype-features/
- https://simoncozens.github.io/test-fonts/#fallbackplus-regularotf
- https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/afdko/OpenTypeFeatureFileSpecification.html#example-3-1
- https://www.typenetwork.com/news/article/opentype-at-work-contextual-alternates
