Optimizing the Legibility of Symbol Highway Signs
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Introduction Symbol (i.e., "pictorial") highway signs yield legibility distances which are on average twice as great as those achieved for their text sign counterparts. However, the relative superiority of symbol signs is neither uniform nor universal. Some symbol signs are legible from 3-times as far away while other poorly designed symbol signs can be recognized at only half the distance of their textual equivalents (Jacobs, Johnston and Cole, 1975).
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تاریخ انتشار 1997