A Study of Fonts Designed for Screen Display Crafting Designs / Dan Boyarski / Christine Neuwirth / Jodi Forlizzi / Susan Harkness RegliProceedings of ACM CHI 98 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 1998 v.1 p.87-94
www.acm.org/pubs/articles/proceedings/chi/274644/p87-boyarski/p87- boyarski.pdf
Abstract:This study examined the readability and subjective preferences of a set of fonts designed for screen display. Two new binary bitmap fonts performed well, suggesting that designers should consider incorporating similar attributes into default fonts for online type.
The Influence of Reading Speed and Line Length on the Effectiveness of Reading from Screen / Mary C. Dyson / Mark Haselgrove International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 2001 v.54 n.4 p.585-612
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On Dec 2, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Chris Douce wrote:
Good question.� My two pence worth:� I haven't heard of any specific code and case studies myself, two associated issues spring to mind - the role of convention and variable naming (it seems to be a common convention to type constants in upper case), and whether there are any studies from the HCI community on the readability of one form of text (font size and style) over another.
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Chris
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Subject:PPIG discuss: Effect of letter casing on readability
Does anyone know of studies investigating the effect of casing on readability of program source code?
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Steven
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