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Tiresias
Tiresias is a family of TrueType sans-serif typefaces that were designed with the aim of legibility by people with impaired vision at the Scientific Research Unit of Royal National Institute of Blind People in London.
About Tiresias
Tiresias is a family of TrueType sans-serif typefaces that were designed with the aim of legibility by people with impaired vision at the Scientific Research Unit of Royal National Institute of Blind People in London. The font was originally designed for the RNIB by Chris Sharville of Laker Sharville Design Associates who was working with John Gill at the time. The family includes Tiresias Infofont – for information labels, optimized for maximum legibility at a distance of 30–100 cm. Tiresias Keyfont – for labeling the tops of keys of keyboards, PIN pads, appliances, remote controls (features exaggerated punctuation marks, no descender on the J) Tiresias LPfont – for large-print publications. A wedge-serif design.
From the Wikipedia article “Tiresias (typeface)”, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Using Tiresias in a book
Test this typeface at both text and display sizes before committing; print a sample page at final size.
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Sources & data
- Structured data from Wikidata Q744998 (CC0).
- Summary text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).