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- Survey: justified or rag-right?
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... is faster than justified -- the same type of tests that Kevin Larson did for ClearType, which determined that it was 5% faster. Having said ...
Forum topic - Palatine - 22 Nov 2005 - 3:13pm - 188 comments - 0 attachments
- Serifs. What's the point?
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... and more inviting and easier to read. And also why I think Kevin Larson found that usable comprehenson was better with good typography. In other ...
Forum topic - Randy - 13 Jan 2006 - 8:31am - 119 comments - 0 attachments
- Shinn vs. Papazian challenge
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... the goal of making better fonts (faster, according to the Larson standard), then why not design fonts to test specific aspects of the ... is concerned with testing specific 'received wisdom'. Kevin Larson has been conducting tests on spacing, measuring the impact of ...
Forum topic - Nick Shinn - 18 Dec 2009 - 11:21am - 57 comments - 0 attachments
- Help on dissertation, Legibility versus readability
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... this. William, the model of word recognition that Kevin Larson describes is one in which word-identity is guessed at in the brain based ...
Forum topic - daniel_hall - 7 Dec 2004 - 5:32am - 60 comments - 0 attachments
- why is serif still used today?
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... logicalistic idea is just more hot air at this point. Kevin, who is a reading scientist, has already pointed out that nothing ... is to convey personality differences. Cheers, Kevin >The reeds were cut at a >The reeds were cut at a slant to ... wish. Please make an effort to read Tracy, Goudy, Enneson, Larson, dispassionately. It's not illegal to disagree with them or to ...
Forum topic - missgiggles - 1 Dec 2006 - 6:36am - 117 comments - 0 attachments
- whats the less eye tiring font?
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... That is already being done, as I understand from Kevin Larson's posts here. I think measuring decline of comprehension with time ...
Forum topic - colore - 9 Jun 2007 - 12:56am - 67 comments - 0 attachments
- Irony Mark???
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... requesting inclusion in the Unicode standard, as does Kevin Larson (for the French design). Why not? Interrobang made it, and that's just ...
Forum topic - Choz Cunningham - 13 Jun 2007 - 10:28pm - 111 comments - 0 attachments
- Quantifying the effects of good design
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... the article called “The Aesthetics of Reading” by Kevin Larson (Microsoft) and Rosalind Picard (MIT) ? In the article they propose new ...
Forum topic - xensen - 10 Jun 2007 - 7:58am - 3 comments - 0 attachments
- Do ligatures improve readability?
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... improve >Do ligatures improve readability? Kevin Larson, may correct me if I'm wrong, but I think that any improvement in ...
Forum topic - ebensorkin - 25 Oct 2006 - 7:52am - 130 comments - 0 attachments
- A good readable body copy typeface
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... about the same x height as 8.5 point Times New Roman. Kevin Larson, reading scientist at Microsoft, mentioned here on Typophile what seems ...
Forum topic - mhdesign - 9 Feb 2007 - 8:40pm - 23 comments - 0 attachments


