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- How do you develop hand lettering aesthetics?
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... this isn't how I use notan. This is closer to how I use bouma. Notan isn't a process or a phenomenon, it's a thing. > ... ... my reading of the "Cue Values of Letter Properties" in Herman Bouma's 1971 "Visual Recognition of Isolated Lowercase Letters" as well ...
Forum topic - j_polo9 - 2 Jul 2006 - 8:19pm - 181 comments - 0 attachments
- bouma
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Indices : Terminology : Bouma Bouma: a hypothesized visual-syntactic atom of immersive reading; almost always ... Insup Taylor and/or Paul Saenger , derived from Herman Bouma , a [retired] Dutch scientist. Most cognitive psychologists ...
Wiki - Joe Pemberton - 17 Apr 2008 - 3:54pm - 0 comments
- The bouma of space craft
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... theories of letter recognition and the role of the bouma, there is a subthread on spacing, kicked off by five questions including ... / modulars (Hrant) / perceptual distance (Herman Bouma) scales. Next I would want to look at fMRI readouts to see if ...
Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 1:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments
- Research about legibility
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... the novel was panned because the type had the wrong bouma shape. All in fun... George, thanks so much for George, thanks ... an oblique reference to the close relationship between Herman Melville and Frank Lloyd Wright, which everyone knows about seein' as ...
Forum topic - Steven Wulf - 13 May 2006 - 5:43am - 179 comments - 0 attachments
- Legible, unambiguous characters...
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... the "recognition conflicts" of letters is the research of Herman Bouma; he has created some quite interesting graphs that use distance lines to ...
Forum topic - juter - 9 Dec 2005 - 1:30am - 8 comments - 0 attachments
- bouma as bounded map
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How many of you think my attempt to ground the term bouma or bouma shape in bounded map has merit? The derivation is ... the term bouma is a fitting tribute to a key figure, Herman Bouma. Though Herman Bouma and his associate at the Institute for ...
Forum topic - enne_son - 19 Oct 2005 - 2:51am - 116 comments - 0 attachments
- Typophile Glossary
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... of Black and White. Raw reading information. Bouma: the visual-syntactic atom of immersive reading; almost always the blurry ... as used by Insup Taylor and/or Paul Saenger, derived from Herman Bouma, a [retired] Dutch scientist. Chiro-: Greek root meaning ...
Forum topic - rs_donsata - 22 Mar 2004 - 8:39pm - 5 comments - 0 attachments
- Archive through September 17, 2003
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... is actually serious! It's a [further] validation of Herman Bouma's research, which is very valuable for a text font designer. The ...
Forum topic - amills - 12 Sep 2003 - 1:20pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments
- Designing my own typeface
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... addresses the things a type designer would need. In fact Herman Bouma himself never wrote a book at all - just a large number of interesting ...
Forum topic - toddy - 12 Aug 2003 - 8:38am - 25 comments - 0 attachments
- Ligatures & Children's books
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... know and don't want to know this new religion, Bouma and his friends, sorry. About children books, as a true lover of ... the larger pattern of the cluster. But it is there. Herman Bouma did a lot of it. There is empirical evidence of the ... question adequately. In terms of empirical findings, Herman Bouma has done tests to measure the acuity of the parafovea (both in ...
Forum topic - Miguel Sousa - 12 Jun 2003 - 10:17am - 52 comments - 0 attachments
