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Reading without the friction: letting every learner choose their type

July 6, 2026The PDP Shikshya team4 min read

Reading is not one experience shared equally by everyone. For some students, densely set text on a screen slips, crowds, or blurs together, and the effort of decoding the letters leaves less attention for the meaning. A different typeface will not fix a reading difficulty, but the right one measurably lowers the friction — and that is worth offering.

A font that fits you

Students can now choose the font the interface uses, from a small, carefully picked set. Alongside clean, familiar defaults, there are typefaces designed to make letters easier to tell apart — including a dyslexia-friendly option with weighted, distinct letterforms, and a calmer face chosen for readability over character. The setting follows the student across the app, not just one screen.

Set once for a whole school, or one student at a time

A school can choose a default typeface that suits its community, and an individual student can still override it for themselves. The two settings coexist: the school sets the starting point, the student keeps the final say over how their own screen reads.

Small setting, real difference

This is a deliberately modest feature, and that is the point. It costs the student nothing to try, changes nothing about the curriculum or the work, and for the learners who need it, it turns a page that used to fight back into one they can simply read. Good accessibility is often a collection of small choices like this one.