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Worldwide, around 10% of people have dyslexia, a neurological disability that impairs a person’s ability to read and write. There is evidence that the typographic presentation of the written document has a significant effect on a text’s accessibility for people with dyslexia. One of the most significant factors that affects readability of the text is a typeface and/or its variations. In this paper, we present the reading process from neurophysiological and psycholinguistic perspectives. Though dyslexia is primarily related to deficits in phonological processing, the visual processing disorders also have an impact on reading. So we present simulations of visual distortions that help imagine what the printed text looks like for many people suffering from dyslexia. In the second part of the paper we present a set of common typefaces that are friendly for dyslexics and selected font types designed specifically for people with dyslexia.