On Sunday 16 August 2009 03:36:50 am Helge Hielscher wrote: > On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:51:41 -0400, John Culleton wrote: > > The book "Type & Layout" by Colin Wheidon & Geoffrey Heard > > comse down on the side of serif fonts for all uses in terms of > > comprehension. > > How did they measure it? Are there studies with sustainable > results? >
Well you really have to read the book :<) He lists 11 sources in the References section including: Typography,: How to Make it most Legible, Rolf Rehe, Design Research IInternational 1983 Legibility in Print, Miles A. Tinker, Iowa state University Press, 1963 But most of the research is Wheildon's own. "A total of 224 people, drawn from ten Sydney suburbs, completed the first program---a series of tests run over a period of five years." There was also a second series of tests, and a third, and a flyer study conducted by NRMA (like the U.S AAA) involving 4,000 participants in the type sub sample. Enough. Read the book. This is one man's lifelong passion and study. He describes the individual tests and charts the results. For details on this and other publishing books see my short list: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf -- John Culleton Create Book Covers with Scribus/e-book $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
