Hey! Recently worked on a visual novel, https://boobysoft.itch.io/watch-me-suffer - any dyslexics wanna tell me how readable it is? We used a sans serif, as I know that's... recommended, but did not go with open dyslexic, because open dyslexic looks... deeply unpleasing to my eyes. 

I know different dyslexic people have different experiences, so this may not be a one size fits all thing - but is this working for y'all? 

Obviously, if it's not super readable, I can definitely swap the font (or give an option in settings to swap the font) to something I find less visually appealing but works better for people, but I would like to know if this works okay currently for people. 

If you download it and play rather than just looking at the images (which truly, would be simplest), know that there are some sound glitches right now/some of the voice acting is not yet implemented. Not looking for feedback on the game itself (which will get an update to handle some of the issues within the coming weeks), just some info on readability (although if you wanna play go ahead, it's definitely functional and I'm proud of what our team has done). 

 because open dyslexic looks... deeply unpleasing to my eyes

To mine too! Is this really helpful for dyslexics?

But such options should be optional. Just like a game might have a colorblind mode, but should not have it activated per default.

And since this is about reading vn. What always bothers me about those is the typing speed. Anything that makes text appear less than instant is very annoying and hard to read. Literally. The appearance of new letters distracts me from reading.

Is there any benefit to this? Why is this so? There are some engines that do not even allow for instant text display. May those engine devs step on a lego.

Are there really people, maybe even dyslexics, that like or need the slow text appearance? Or is this slow appearance of new words detrimental to dyslexics too? For me it decreases readability. If you have no voice over, let us read at our own pace. And we can only do that, if you give us all the text and not withhold it.

Human eyes do not read continually. Our focus point jumps around. We read text, not letters. A thing where dyslexics have difficulties. Also, slow readers and people that are not used to reading. They really read letter after letter.