Talven Text
A typeface for body text. It has seven redrawn characters, a taller lowercase, and more room between words.
Talven Text is a modified version of Atkinson Hyperlegible Next, free under the SIL Open Font License. It is a prototype. No reader study has measured a benefit from it.
Select the large type to edit it. The lines show the font's vertical metrics.
Talven Text starts from Atkinson Hyperlegible Next. A build script replaces seven outlines, raises the lowercase, and adds space. The solid shape is Talven Text. The red outline is the original.
A wider mouth.
A raised crossbar.
A longer curved foot.
Short horizontal bars.
A diagonal flag and a foot on the baseline.
A curved shoulder.
A dot in the center, not a slash.
No setting is best for every reader. Change one control at a time, put another font next to it, and copy the CSS when the text is comfortable.
Talven Text
Select the Talven Text sample to type or paste your own text. It stays in this page.
Some characters share a shape in many fonts. Blur both rows until one of them stops making sense. Blur is a rough stand-in for small sizes and distance. It is not a test of your eyesight or of the font.
Il1|
Il1|
Capital I, lowercase l, one, bar
O0o
O0o
Capital O, zero, lowercase o
rn m
rn m
r and n together, then m
cl d
cl d
c and l together, then d
B8 S5
B8 S5
B and eight, S and five
6b 9q
6b 9q
Six and b, nine and q
Z2 G6
Z2 G6
Z and two, G and six
ce ao
ce ao
Round lowercase letters
Talven Text Arial
The font encodes 366 codepoints. This list covers Latin text. It does not imply full support for any one language.
The variable font covers weights 300 to 700. Five static fonts cover the named weights for applications that do not support variable fonts. There is no italic.
The quiet river carried sixty cold leaves
The quiet river carried sixty cold leaves
The quiet river carried sixty cold leaves
The quiet river carried sixty cold leaves
The quiet river carried sixty cold leaves
Find the smallest row that you can read without effort. That size depends on your screen and your eyes.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Illustrated guide to 1,001 local rivers, 2026.
Figures are proportional by default. The tnum feature gives every digit the same width. The timetable is sample data.
| Stop | Time | Distance, km | Fare, € |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helsinki | 19:29 | 0 | 0.00 |
| Tampere | 21:11 | 187 | 21.10 |
| Seinäjoki | 23:01 | 346 | 38.80 |
| Oulu | 03:47 | 680 | 71.00 |
| Rovaniemi | 07:14 | 900 | 89.10 |
| Kolari | 10:41 | 1,015 | 101.90 |
1/2 1/4 3/4m2 x3Fractions and superscripts
Talven ensimmäinen lumi satoi yöllä.
Zażółć gęślą jaźń.
Příliš žluťoučký kůň úpěl ďábelské ódy.
Kæmi ný öxi hér, ykist þjófum nú bæði víl og ádrepa.
Pijamalı hasta yağız şoföre çabucak güvendi.
Falsches Üben von Xylophonmusik quält jeden größeren Zwerg.
Portez ce vieux whisky au juge blond qui fume.
Muzicologă în bej vând whisky și tequila, preț fix.
The design choices in Talven Text are hypotheses. No study has measured speed, accuracy, comprehension, or a benefit for dyslexia with this font.
Zorzi and colleagues found that extra spacing helped children with dyslexia read sentences. Galliussi and colleagues found that wider letter spacing without enough word spacing slowed readers down.
Zorzi et al., 2012Studies of fonts designed for dyslexia report mixed or null results. Kuster and colleagues found no reading benefit for Dyslexie over the comparison fonts.
Kuster et al., 2018Wallace and colleagues found that the fastest font differed from person to person. The font a person preferred was not reliably their fastest.
Wallace et al., 2022The font is free under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. You can use it, change it, and redistribute it. Keep the copyright and license with the font files.
The archive has the fonts, the editable sources, the build script, and the license.
Check a file against its SHA-256 hash in the font manifest. Read thelicense.
Copy TalvenText-Variable.woff2 to your site, then add this CSS. Change the URL to match your file location.
@font-face {
font-family: "Talven Text";
src: url("/fonts/TalvenText-Variable.woff2") format("woff2");
font-weight: 300 700;
font-style: normal;
font-display: swap;
}
body {
font-family: "Talven Text", Arial, sans-serif;
font-synthesis: none;
}