Readability Matters is a tech-for-good nonprofit organization with the mission to engage an ecosystem of partners to deliver personalized reading environments, empowering everyone everywhere to achieve more.

SXSW EDU Panel Picker - Better Reading

Vote Now! Better Reading Panel at SXSW EDU 2023

Better Reading, Better Learning, Better Outcomes A SXSW EDU Panel   Help get our Better Reading panel to SXSW EDU 2023! Our experts from Adobe, CAST, the University of Central Florida, and Readability Matters will share the latest research and implementation plans for using personalized text formats to improve educational outcomes. The panel will also…

Society for the Scientific Study of Reading - Readability Posters

SSSR | Research Results: Improved Student Reading Speed and Comprehension

Personalized Reading Formats Studied in K-8 Students   Updated: August 30, 2022 Cross-disciplinary research teams delivered posters summarizing their readability research at the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading (SSSR) annual meeting. The prestigious reading conference reports on all aspects of reading and its related areas, including issues related to word recognition, comprehension, writing,…

New! Readability Wiki

Readability Wiki Launched

Learn More about Cross-Organizational Efforts to Implement Personalized Reading Visit the new community Readability Wiki for a snapshot of the work being done across the ecosystem of partners working to implement personalized reading, empowering everyone everywhere to achieve more. Links to the latest research and white papers, implementations, news, videos and podcasts are among the…

Personalized Font Recommendations: Combining ML and Typographic Guidelines to Optimize Readability

Personalized Font Recommendations with Machine Learning

Vision Scientists, Data Scientists, and Typographers Collaborate on New Readability Solutions   At the proceedings of DIS’22, the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), Tianyuan Cai and his colleagues presented their latest research, Personalized Font Recommendations: Combining ML and Typographic Guidelines to Optimize Readability. The study is a collaboration between vision scientists, data…

Register Now - Adobe Education Summit - Digital Readability & Adobe Acrobat Reader Liquid Mode

Readability at Adobe Education Summit 

Adobe Education Summit | July 26-28 2022 Free and Online, Three Days of Connecting and Learning   Register today for the 2022 global Adobe Education Summit. Adobe has assembled an impressive line-up of experts, including educators, technologists, researchers, and more. They will discuss how to build skills for digital literacy and empower student learning experiences…

Google's Commitment to Improving Readability

Google’s Commitment to Improving Readability

Making the Web More Beautiful, Fast, and Open with Typography Google launched Google Fonts in 2010–making fonts free and available to everyone–to benefit the general good of the web. Today, as of this blog writing, Google Fonts is a library of 1,432 open-source font families, including 253 variable font families and APIs for convenient use…

Readability Research Posters - Society for the Scientific Study of Reading Annual Meeting, July 2022

Readability at SSSR 2022

Student Readability Research Studies will be Presented at Leading Scientific Reading Conference   Technology provides an opportunity for personalized learning, which moves from a one-format-fits-all approach to one tailored for the student. Educational content can be formatted for each student in their best reading format, enhancing the student’s ability to learn. Better reading experiences create…

Lightning Learning: Preliminary Insights - Readability Research for Adult Literacy

Lightning Learning with Dr. Jen Vanek

Preliminary Insights on Readability Research for Adult Literacy   Many adults in the US without a high school degree only have access to the Internet through a smartphone. Hence, to increase equity and access, Dr. Jen Vanek and the team at the EdTech Center at World Education are evaluating personalized readability to improve reading outcomes…

NN/g Reports: Best Font for Online reading - No single answer

Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer

Nielsen Norman Group Reports on TOCHI Readability Study   Jakob Nielsen renowned web design and usability guru of the Nielson Norman Group (NN/g) recently reviewed the research published in ACM’s Transactions on Computer Human Interaction (TOCHI) in his recent report, “Best Font for Online Reading: No Single Answer.” Shaun Wallace (Brown University Ph.D. candidate) and…

Adobe CSR Report highlights Readability

Readability: A 2021 Adobe Corporate Social Responsibility Changemaker

Adobe’s 2021 CSR Report Highlights How Technology can be Leveraged for Good Adobe’s Readability Initiative Featured   The FY21 Adobe Corporate Social Responsibility Report contains incredible stories of impact and inspiring examples of how technology can be leveraged for good. Adobe’s Readability initiative is a featured Adobe Changemaker. Readability Matters is proud to partner with…