Feature Request: Make short words entirely bold

[AlexTempel]

Short 2 letter words should be entirely highlighted. Words like "it", "is" or "as". You have to switch to reading non-bold text on these words, which is jarring as you are switching back and forth, and slows reading down.

[asieduernest12]

Thank you @Darpyface we will try and get this taken care of

[Julioevm]

I have to disagree on this, personally I prefer short words to remain with just one of the letters bold. This sort of stuff should be user configurable, because not everyone is going to have the same preferences.

[magnum6actual]

So - is there any science behind this project or any kind of studies? This issue makes it seem like the entire concept is just one big guess that may or may not be factual. I came to this repo via Product Hunt and as of yet haven't seen anything that supports the thesis other than perhaps placebo effect.

[Julioevm]

This is very subjective. For some people it works, and notice a improvement in their reading speed (my case) and for othersit doesn't, it even makes it harder for them. Not sure if there have been studies, though.

[asieduernest12]

@magnum6actual this is a link to Renato (inventor) of bionic reading and his explanation of how he discovered it . And I have included some links about Hierarchy in visual design. Hope these help you get close to an understanding.

My take is that bionic reading falls under graphic design especially hierarchy and you can look it up. As bionic reading probably falls under a new aspect of visual hierarchy where we want the focus the readers gaze to only parts of word so that their brain fills it up.

Bellow are some info on visual hierarchy for designers. Bionic reading is an innovation where we are applying a know common technique in a totally new way.

Things to also note is that eyes do not move in a smooth continuous fashion (human eyes) unless they are tracking something that is moving. The application of visual hierarchy (bionic reading) is to provide the eyes with fixed locations to jump to freeing your brain from extra work. Again this is my take but please read some more on visual hierarchy for clarification.

https://www.interaction-design.org/literature/topics/visual-hierarchy

[khinshankhan]

How about a compromise and creating a settings option to completely bold/ ignore words of <= n length or else apply the 'algorithm'? Couple that with a default setting to retain current behavior 🤔

[AlexTempel]

It might be better just to always bold the first two letters of any word. Words like “the” or “and” only have the first letter bolded but you cannot determine what they mean without the second letter.

[ansh]

This a subjective matter and we should give users toggles to be able to do this. There is no "right" way to do it as this is not a scientifically backed method.

[auryn31]

This a subjective matter and we should give users toggles to be able to do this. There is no "right" way to do it as this is not a scientifically backed method.

Completely agree, but if you take a look at the founders algorithm, there is a "right" way. He says, if the word is one char long, it is bold if its two, only the first char. If its three, its the first 2 and on 4 its also the first two.

Here is my elm implementation

But i think giving the choice is the best way. :-)

Links to the patent:

https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?window=1&space=main&content=familie&action=treffer&docid=DE102017112916A1&firstdoc=1

https://worldwide.espacenet.com/maximizedOriginalDocument?ND=4&flavour=maximizedPlainPage&locale=en_EP&FT=D&date=20171214&CC=US&NR=2017358238A1&KC=A1