LEGIBILITY YTILIBIGEL LEBGILITIY

QUESTION:

Not long ago my girlfriend was getting tested on her problem solving abilities for her university course. They gave her class a sheet of paper with a paragraph written backwards to see how they approached it, solved it and how long it took them. Some people turned it around and held it up to a window, some put it up to a mirror and because of my constant barrage of typo-talk my girlfriend was immediately able to read it without doing anything because she knew to look at the shape of the word and not read the characters on there own.
When questioned about it and asked to prove it she was able to demonstrate by reading the first few sentences without issue.

Try it for yourself.

What do you think?

QUESTION:

The other day someone I know was viewing one of my typefaces and found that without his glasses the letters were perfectly legible and he could read them no problem, but could not read the standard typeface below it. This flipped when he put his glasses on.

What do you think of this?

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