Hungarian designer Vat谩ny Szabolcs has created a font and browser extension to make it easier for people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD, to concentrate when reading online content.
The Focus Ex extension, which works on desktop and mobile, allows users to change entire paragraphs on a web page into a different typeface, called Focus Sans.
The Focus Ex extension is available on mobile
Focus Sans has generous proportions for better legibility, while crucial parameters such as the space between the lines and letters as well as the weight, width and focus of the letterforms can be personalised according to the reader's individual needs.
Compared to a regular typeface, which comes in set sizes and styles like bold or italic, a variable font like Focus Sans allows these features to be adjusted on a sliding scale to create a vast number of variations. The weight, width and focus of Focus Sans can be adapted for better legibility
The result is entirely responsive and unique to the user ? whether they prefer extra thick but narrow letters, wide and thin ones or anything in between.
According to Szabolcs, this kind of personalisation is especially important for people with ADHD, who can often struggle with focusing and processing written information.
The font can be adapted within the Focus Ex extension
"I consulted with psychology and neurology researchers from Budapest and I sent a questionnaire to fluent readers living with ADHD, to collect some data ...