In order to maximize online reading performance and comprehension, how should a designer choose typographical variables such as font size and font type? This paper presents an eye tracking study of how font size and font type affect online reading. In a between-subjects design, we collected data from 82 subjects reading stories formatted in a variety of point sizes, san serif, and serif fonts. ...

BACKGROUND The publication norms of the American Psychological Association recommend the use of a serif font in the manuscripts (Times New Roman). However, there seems to be no well-substantiated reason why serif fonts would produce any advantage during letter/word processing. METHOD This study presents an experiment in which sentences were presented either with a serif or sans serif font fro...

Onscreen English fonts have a critical role in communicating information. Although there has been research into the legibility of these fonts, no study has yet explored font legibility in the context of ethnicity across font types. The present study attempts to fill this void. 402 Thai and non-Thai participants completed questionnaires that displayed texts using serif, sans serif and script fon...

Most guidelines for making websites accessible for older people have been developed for the Latin alphabet. Currently, there are no web design guidelines for the Thai language or for Thai older people. Our research investigated the effect of font type and size in Thai on skim reading for Thai younger (21-39 years) and older (59-72 years) adults. There were two levels of font types (Conservative...

In order to maximize online reading performance and comprehension, how should a designer choose typographical variables such as font size and font type? Do accompanying pictures distract the reader? This paper presents an eye tracking study of how font size, font type, and pictures affect online reading. In a between-subjects design, we collected data from 114 subjects reading stories formatted...

This study examined the perceived font legibility, ease of reading, and font sharpness, as well as perceptions of font attractiveness, fun/personality, and general preference of two serif (Times New Roman and Georgia) and sans serif (Arial and Verdana) fonts at 12and 14-point sizes on a computer by older adults (mean age of 70). The results revealed that participants perceived the 14-point size...

The role of serifs for the comprehension of printed text has been controversial in the literature. The analysis was often confounded by the fact that fonts used for comparison have many differences besides being serif or sans-serif. In this study we use fonts from the same foundry and meta family to assess the differences in reading comprehension for Cyrillic readers (n=238). The results show n...

Our work investigates the effect of using the two general categories of fonts, serif fonts and sans-serif fonts, on the rate at which a person reads and on how much of the material a person comprehends. We have conducted an experiment in which each participant is given two articles, each using a different font, and asked to answer a short questionnaire between each article. After analyzing the ...

This study examined passages containing the fonts, Times New Roman, Courier New, Comic Sans MS, and Arial at 12and 14-point sizes for differences in perceptions of ease of reading, attractiveness, desire to be used in schoolbooks, as well as general font preference when read by children. A significant main effect of font type was found in that Comic Sans MS was perceived as being the easiest to...

Our component-based parametrisable font system is a newly developed font description and reproduction technology. It incorporates for each basic character shape a software method responsible for the synthesis of an instance of that character. A given font is synthesized by providing appropriate font parameters to these character synthesis methods. Numerous concrete fonts can be derived by simpl...