During my research I came across a blogpost by type foundry; Fontsmith, within this it explains what makes a typeface both achieve the optimum accessibility and legibility. It was created especially for people with learning difficulties, to try and pinpoint the best typefaces for them to learn, read and write from. Which is relevant to my research and my aim for my typeface to be suitable for children, who are constantly learning and developing, therefore it needs to be easy for children of different levels of development to read.
An interesting concept they stated, was that each letterform needs to be unique, to be distinguished from the rest. Specifically similar letterforms such as L and I. This gave me the idea to try and manipulate each letterform individual as this would maximise readability. It would also underline my choice of Univers, as all those letterforms are made to look almost identical and consistent, therefore I would be challenging this idea and manipulating the typeface to suit my both my personality
and aim.
I also read here that when ascenders exceed above the cap height, this also improves legibility, which reinforced my idea of lengthening the ascenders and descenders, and this would still be readable, in fact it would be easier to read. Same thing again when I read that extended tails and descenders create clearer more established letter shapes.
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