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Access Font

Led by designer and Emily Carr alumnus Tyler Hawkins (Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship), the Access Font (formerly Ceramic and Infinite Font) is a flexible font for low vision, using the variable font format as a foundation. A web tool assesses the needs of individual readers, and translates those needs into an individualized font. A browser extension then reads text from the Internet, displaying it on-screen in the user's personalized font. The technology has the potential to improve Internet accessibility and the experience of reading for an estimated one billion people worldwide who are partially sighted. Originally a graduate student project, Access Font was incubated through our Satellite Residency at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver, BC. Hawkins will work with a web developer, Quinn Keaveney, and a font engineer, Mirko Velimirovic to develop, test, and release the Access Font software. The project is set for release in 2022.

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