conducting academic research into type, please help.

weekdays
28.Apr.2008 9.18am
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hello,

i am currently writing my dissertation on the connotations of typefaces,

it would be greatly appreciated if you could fill in this small questionaire for my dissertation, its only small and i need to get about 50 more responses and figure’d that this place would be good for getting the results.

its about the semantic connatations of typography and only asks for your opinions on a few selected fonts,

http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/Font_Connotations/font_connotations.html

if anyone has any feedback or questions feel free to post it in here,

this would be greatly appreciated



weekdays
29.Apr.2008 5.31pm
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thanks for your responses so far, keep them coming.


weekdays
4.May.2008 6.19am
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has anyone got any feedback?


Eben Sorkin
4.May.2008 6.46am
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It would be good if the title of your post was more specific. I say this for many reasons, but the reason you might want to consider it most is that you might get more traffic.


Eben Sorkin
4.May.2008 11.18am
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That is definitely better. Thanks!


cumaso
6.May.2008 9.59am
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It would be interesting to see the results of the survey when it is completed. Have you surveyed people outside of the typography and graphic design community? I wonder how their responses would differ.


weekdays
11.May.2008 5.38pm
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thanks for all the responses,

i am in the process of writing this up at the minute, so please no more questionaires. in response to cumaso, yes i am conducting a wider range as possible with my survey.

so far it seems that fruitiger and meta are considered very masculine, and plain with caslon and garamond are seen as distinctly feminine, traditional and fancy.

the light weight helvetica is considered to be much more feminine, warm than the bold.

interestingly it also seems that none of the fonts register as being eithe rhappy or sad.

thanks for all your responses, i will keep this updated with my findings.


Eben Sorkin
11.May.2008 8.36pm
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Thanks for sharing your results.

Do you have any graphs?


David R
11.May.2008 11.28pm
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Oh that’s too bad, I am currently writing a book about typographic connotations, and it is almost finished... I missed the first post.

If you need anything, still...

dr


weekdays
12.May.2008 2.34pm
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i am finishing it off tonite, i’ll post up the raw data after i have handed it in tomoro.

thanks


Theunis de Jong
12.May.2008 2.36pm
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Be sure to use a happy font!