Luciole Math: a typeface developed explicitly for visually impaired academics

29 points by kngl

majaha

If the author is reading,

<section id="try" class="full-width">

with

.full-width { width: 100vw }

is causing that annoying horizontal scroll on this page.

Viewport units measure the viewport size ignoring any scrollbars (so including them within the viewport rectangle). This means that a 100vw page will continue underneath the side scrollbar if it exists, creating a bottom scroll bar. This makes viewport units a bad fit for making things full screen in general, annoyingly.

The solution is to change it to .full-width { width: 100% }.

dz4k

There’s also scrollbar-gutter: stable; if you want/need to stick with vw.
majaha

Seems like it’s fixed now with some negative margin trickery :)

aziis98

I want to use this in Typst like now

jonsterling

This one actually is pretty easy on the eyes!

JohnDeHope

I feel like I am missing something. Does the world need another sans humanist font with an essentially rectangular shape for the lowercase L? I kind of feel like we have enough of them, for now. Does this font do something beyond what fonts like Gentium from sil.org do? It kind of feels like fonts that purport to have “all the glyphs” is another crowded field. What am I missing here?

doug-moen

The project web site explains in detail what Luciole does beyond Gentium.

Luciole is designed for low vision readers, using evidence based design, in a collaboration between the Regional Technical Center for Visual Impairment, and the type-design studio typographies.fr. Three studies compare the readability of the final design to similar fonts, where the test subjects are low vision readers in France. In these studies, Luciole is found to have an advantage.

This announcement is for Luciole Math, which is a math font designed for use with TeX and other math software, in accordance with AMS guidelines (American Mathematical Society).

Gentium is designed by typographer Victor Gaultney, and has won a typographic award. Gentium AFAIK is not a math font.
- JohnDeHope
  
  Okay so the usual English ascii characters aren’t the point? That makes sense. They look indistinguishable from a dozen other sans fonts I’ve seen. But if you’re saying the point is the math symbols, that does make sense.
  - iv
    
    To summarize:
    
    Natural language is not the point of Luciole Math. Math symbols are.
    
    Natural language is the point of Luciole, the “parent” font: https://luciole-vision.com/en/index.html
    
    I’m not sure why they’re packaged as separate fonts.