Read More Easily
Do you have a hard time understanding and remembering what you’ve just read?
It may be about how hard your eyes have to work.
If your eyes are working hard it leaves less processing power for remembering what you read. Or even for thinking.
Four simple things to make it easier when reading online:
Copy some text onto a word editing document so that you can try things out.
- Bigger font. Choose a section and make it size 14. Does it make reading easier?
- Bigger spacing. Increase the spacing between the lines to 1.5 or 2. Has this helped?
- Background color. Perhaps black on a pastel color will work for you (Green? Blue? Tan? Something else?). Perhaps you’ll like white text on a black background (people with ADHD often do). Did this work for you?
- Different font. We like Verdana and similar ones that are not serifed. Did you come up with a favorite — not necessarily the prettiest, but one that makes it easier on the eyes?
People with ASD, dyslexia, dyspraxia and other learning challenges may find these tools particularly helpful. If more than one change is helpful to you, try combining them.
Change the font size
Change the spacing
Change the colors
Change the fonts
