Optical releases today! Optical is a font family and a free web tool that enhances and customizes letters to varied low vision.
It’s the result of a year of collaboration between Emily Carr University of Art + Design, the Accessible Technology Program, Disability Alliance BC, and a small team of designers and developers led by Tyler Hawkins.
Try it out and read more about the process behind the project at opticalfont.com.
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Since 1977, Disability Alliance BC has been a provincial, cross-disability voice in British Columbia. Our mission is to promote a more inclusive and equitable society for people with all disabilities through direct services, community partnerships, systemic advocacy, research, and publications.
We acknowledge and have deep gratitude to work together on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓ əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Selíl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations of the Coast Salish people. We honour the many territorial keepers of the lands.
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