Lexend Font Family

Lexend is a variable typeface designed by Bonnie Shaver-Troup and Thomas Jockin in 2018. Applying the Shaver-Troup Individually Optimal Text Formation Factors, studies have found readers instantaneously improve their reading fluency.

Lexend was expaned to Arabic in January 2020. The Shaver-Troup Formulation was applied to Arabic with advisement from Arabic Typeface Designer, Nadine Chahine.

This font is based on the Quicksand project from Andrew Paglinawan, initiated in 2008. Quicksand was improved in 2016 by Thomas Jockin for Google Fonts. Thomas modified Quicksand for the specialized task of improving reading fluency in low-proficiency readers (including those with dyslexia.)

ChangeLog

2018 April 9 (Thomas Jockin) Version 1.0

• First public release

2020 January 18 (Thomas Jockin) Version 1.1

• Expansion to Arabic script
• Bug fixes in Latin Character Set

Where To Get It

• Via the website's download form
• Directly from GitHub
• From CTAN: tlmgr install lexend
• From Homebrew: brew cask install font-lexend-deca

Acknowledgements

If you make modifications be sure to add your name (N), email (E), web-address (if you have one) (W) and description (D). This list is in alphabetical order.

N: Andrew Paglinawan
E: andrew.paglinawan@gmail.com
W: http://andrewpaglinawan.com
D: Designer of Quicksand (original Roman glyphs)

N: Bonnie Shaver-Troup E: bshavertroup@gmail.com W: http://www.lexend.com D: Designer of Lexend (derived from Quicksand)

N: Thomas Jockin
E: thomas@thomasjockin.com
W: http://thomasjockin.com
D: Designer of Lexend (derived from Quicksand)

N: Nadine Chahine E: nadine@arabictype.com
W: http://arabictype.com/
D: Designer of Lexend Arabic (derived from Lexend Latin)

For more information about this font please visit http://www.lexend.com