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By: Tasks Written in Easy to Read Fonts Are More Likely to be Completed | Breaking Jist 4 U!

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:21:05 +0000

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By: Kontra

Kontra — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:45:06 +0000

Nick: “I can read from a computer screen, but I far prefer to read from a well printed book.”

Yes, the info density and legibility are favorable to printed books, but the general experience of “reading” is far more than just following words on a page or taking in the beauty of photographs in a glossy magazine.

With digital, you also get search, editing, re-purposing, zoom in/out, different form factors, text re-flow, sharing, and so on. A printed book is but one instantiation of its content, not the full definition of its possibilities.

Opera was once the “movie” of its time. Today the vast majority of people prefer movies. This doesn’t have to “invalidate” opera, however.

By: ||–::DaKi::–|| » Blog Archive » Tasks Written in Easy to Read Fonts Are More Likely to be Completed

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:29:42 +0000

[...] it was found that students who received the instructions written in normal font were more likely to go through [...]

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 05:06:56 +0000

I would like to see a similar study, but rather than comparing fonts, comparing reading materials rendered at vastly DPI… For instance, compare instructions displayed on a typical computer monitor (at 100 DPI or so) vs. instructions printed at 600 DPI or 1200 DPI.

I suspect the results would be similar… it’s my pet favorite guess for why e-book readers (e.g. Kindle) still have so little market share. I can read from a computer screen, but I far prefer to read from a well printed book.

By: Timm

Timm — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 16:04:23 +0000

Another example of subliminal influence is research showing that drivers speed up in a fog instead of slowing down. This is contrary as the fog affects perception of road texture and hence speed.

By: Kontra

Kontra — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:34:45 +0000

Danel: “Why would you ever set a brush-script in all caps?”

To drive home the point? :-)

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:59:42 +0000

You mean professional graphic designers are correct?

Why would you ever set a brush-script in all caps? Oh the huge manatee!

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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:13:04 +0000

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Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:16:57 +0000

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Lose Weight Fast with Proper Fonts | The Minority Report — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 15:25:50 +0000

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