Lexica Ultralegible – A Typeface Built for Accessibility in Typography

Lexica Ultralegible builds on the foundation laid by Atkinson Hyperlegible but offers enhanced flexibility and usability across various applications. Including more glyphs supporting extra languages and additional typographic features like ligatures and alternative flipped zero.

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Designed for low-vision readers, certain letters and numbers can be hard to distinguish from one another. Lexica Ultralegible differentiates common misinterpreted letters and numbers using various design techniques: B vs. 8, 1 vs. L vs. l vs. I. Recognizable Footprints: Character boundaries are clearly defined, ensuring understanding across the visual-ability spectrum.

With Lexica Ultralegible, you won't worry about the fine print because it remains highly legible and readable even at a small scale, making it perfect for a range of uses from body text to captions. Whether you’re working on digital media or print its distinct letterforms will remain legible to low-vision readers.

Four fonts, with two weights, in both roman and oblique.

2,356

Two thousand three hundred and fifty-six total glyphs.

589

Five hundred and eighty-nine glyphs per font.

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Accent characters supporting one hundred & two languages.

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Letters are different from each other to increase legibility.

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Exaggerated letters design, to provide better clarity.

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Angled spurs and distinguish tails to increase recognition.

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Opened counter space defines open spaces better.

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Circular details links to the history of the braille dots.

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Standard ligatures to improve legibility and harmony.

007

Includes and alternative flipped number zero.

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Improved kerning for body text, headings, and UI.

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Regular 400

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Italic 400

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Bold 700

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Bold Italic 700

Character Set

Lexica Ultralegible contains an additional 222 characters not all glyphs are presented here.

Uppercase

Lowercase

Numbers

Currency

Punctuation

*
·
•
:
,
…
!
¡
#
.
?
¿
”
’
;
\
/
{
}
[
]
(
)
—
–
-
‑
_
«
»
‹
›
„
“
”
‘
’
‚
∙
@
&
¶
§
©
®
🄯
™
°
|
¦
†
ℓ
‡
℮
^

Math Symbols

OpenType Features

OpenType features refer to different glyphs or character styles contained within an OpenType font. These include things like ligatures, kerning, fractions, numeral styles, and several others.

Flip the zero

By default the zero remains with a backslash \ this was done to prevent confusion with the Danish Ø however, when pairing the typeface with a monospace that only supports a forwardslash / zero, this may create a cognitive dissonance problem. On that occasion you might want to flip the zero:

Code Example:

body {
  font-family: "Lexica Ultralegible";
  font-size: 100%;
  font-weight: 400;
  font-variant-numeric: slashed-zero;
}

Ligatures

Web browsers have ligatures activated by default, we recommend disabling them for heading or large display text.

Code Example:

h1, h2, h3 {
  font-variant-ligatures: no-common-ligatures;
}

Language Support (102)

Also supporting 340 orthographies according to Hyperglot.

Afrikaans
Albanian
Asturian
Asu
Basque
Bemba
Bena
Breton
Catalan
Chiga
Colognian
Cornish
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Embu
English
Esperanto
Estonian
Faroese
Filipino
Finnish
French
Friulian
Galician
Ganda
German
Gusii
Hungarian
Icelandic
Inari Sami
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Jola-Fonyi
Kabuverdianu
Kalenjin
Kamba
Kikuyu
Kinyarwanda
Koyraboro Senni
Koyra Chiini
Lakota
Latvian
Lithuanian
Lower Sorbian
Luo
Luxembourgish
Luyia
Machame
Makhuwa-Meetto
Makonde
Malagasy
Maltese
Manx
Meru
Morisyen
Northern Sami
North Ndebele
Norwegian Bokmål
Norwegian Nynorsk
Nyankole
Oromo
Polish
Portuguese
Quechua
Romanian
Romansh
Rombo
Rundi
Rwa
Samburu
Sango
Sangu
Scottish Gaelic
Sena
Serbian
Shambala
Shona
Slovak
Soga
Somali
Spanish
Swahili
Swedish
Swiss German
Taita
Tasawaq
Teso
Turkish
Upper Sorbian
Uzbek (Latin)
Vietnamese
Volapük
Vunjo
Walser
Welsh
Western Frisian
Yoruba
Zarma
Zulu

Lexica Ultralegible builds on the foundation laid by Atkinson Hyperlegible but offers enhanced flexibility and usability across various applications. Including more glyphs supporting extra languages and additional typographic features like ligatures and alternative flipped zero.

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.

How quickly daft jumping zebras vex.

Character Set

OpenType Features

Flip the zero

Ligatures

Language Support (102)