Chromatics

A dyslexia-friendly reading app, with the load shared

Concrete things first: the OpenDyslexic typeface is available on every book in the catalog, the type scales as large as you like, there are three calm themes including a high-warmth paper, and the audiobook can read along so eyes and ears split the work. None of it is a separate mode, none of it costs extra, and switching takes two taps.

What a page looks like

This is the opening of Wuthering Heights set in OpenDyslexic on the Refined Dark theme, speaker colors on — a real render, not a mock-up. The heavy letter bottoms are the typeface’s signature; many readers find it keeps letters from flipping and lines from swimming. If it does nothing for you, the serif and system faces are one tap away — it is a menu, not a commitment.

A page of Wuthering Heights in the Chromatics app set in the OpenDyslexic typeface: the scene banner reads Wuth. Hts, Lockwood, 1801, and Heathcliff's dialogue appears in red

Chapter I, as the app renders it with OpenDyslexic selected.

Five things, each small, that stack

For librarians and the people who make lists

If you maintain a resource page for readers who want classic literature with OpenDyslexic and synchronized audio in one place: that is precisely what this is, the relevant titles are all Project Gutenberg texts, the audio is LibriVox, and the featured books are free in full. Questions to hello@chromatics.mobile — a human answers.

OpenDyslexic, the warm theme, and a narrator who keeps your place — set once, then just read.

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Free on iPhone and iPad, currently through TestFlight. On Android? Leave an email.