MegaMegaTypeType
A humanist serif designed by Thierry Fétiveau for children's literature, featuring 11 original punctuation marks that indicate emotional tone and letterforms engineered to reduce confusion for dyslexic readers.
About
Andersen addresses a genuine gap in type design by creating a face suited to texts meant to be read aloud, with a complementary punctuation system inspired by Spanish double-mark convention that places expressive glyphs at both the start and end of a sentence. Letterforms are carefully differentiated to minimise the mirror confusion between b, d, p, q, 6 and 9 that affects dyslexic readers. Low stroke contrast keeps the face workable across titles, body text and captions alike.
Classification
Synthesised from the humanist model with contemporary softening, Andersen exhibits low stroke contrast and rounded letterforms characteristic of humanist serif design, adapted specifically for legibility in children's literature.