[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 68902] DejaVu Serif Italic Glyphs do not match non-italic glyphs.

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--- Comment #4 from Julian Griffin <juliangriffin at hotmail.com> ---
Thank you.
   My interest is in the educational sphere, adult literacy to be specific.

   I am Dyslexic and know just how important the look of a page of text is. I
hate flush-right margins, I find them very difficult to navigate. I find the
Arial font makes the page look cold, the Times New Roman font makes the page
look warmer, and the Comic Sans font makes the page looks friendly and
accessible.

   Comic Sans has the merit that each character is more distinct from one
another than characters in Ariel & Times New Roman are. With Ariel, I find, the
characters can look very similar; e.g. aceosu, bdghpqy, & mrn.

   I became very disheartened in not finding a joined-up-written font that
created all letters suitable. Problem letters included a, f, g, j, r, s, & y.
So I developed my own fonts specifically to help learners practice handwriting
and of course I used the single-story "a".

   Microsoft's attempt at a Unicode compliant font is Segoe. This font family
includes Print & Script (Script is not suited to handwriting practice as f, g,
j, r, t, & y are not fully integrated).

   So two questions:
   1) Are there any plans to add handwritten fonts to the DejaVu family?
   2) If there are, how do I volunteer?

Regards Julian.

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