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Gemini Distinct

School IED Roma - Istituto Europeo di Design / Rome

Client Google

Category

Google / Creative Use of AI

Annual ID

YO26_B061M

Over 780 million people with dyslexia navigate a digital world that wasn’t built for the way they read. Every website, article, and interface relies on typography optimized for neurotypical readers, forcing millions to decode letters that blur, flip, or merge in ways most designers never consider. While dyslexia-friendly fonts do exist, they remain confined to specialized apps and isolated environments, leaving the rest of the internet unchanged. The real issue isn’t a lack of accessible tools it’s that the web itself cannot adapt to different readers. Gemini Distinct reimagines that relationship. Instead of asking users to adapt to the internet, it allows the internet to adapt to them. Powered by Google Gemini, Gemini Distinct is a browser plugin that instantly transforms any webpage into a dyslexia-optimized reading experience. At its core is a new typeface designed specifically for digital environments, built with weighted letterforms that reduce character confusion and intelligent spacing that improves readability across complex layouts. With a single click, the plugin activates on any site, preserving the original design structure while replacing typography, adjusting kerning, and optimizing line height for clarity. Gemini’s AI analyzes the page in real time, understanding hierarchy and layout so the experience remains visually coherent while becoming dramatically easier to read. Over time, it learns from each user’s preferences, adapting the reading experience to how they process text. Today, Gemini Distinct lives as a browser plugin, but the vision goes far beyond the web. The same technology could transform everything we read documents, interfaces, operating systems and even extend into the physical world through augmented reality, translating signs, books, and environments into a format that dyslexic minds can read with ease. Because accessibility shouldn’t be a separate mode you switch on. It should be the way the world naturally speaks to everyone.

2026 Awards

Total Points: 4

Student Merit

Credits

College / University

IED Roma - Istituto Europeo di Design / Rome

Professor / Instructor

Lorenzo Terragna
Massimiliano Traschitti
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