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SUBMITTER: Dobres J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5213401 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Dobres Jonathan J Chahine Nadine N Reimer Bryan B Gould David D Mehler Bruce B Coughlin Joseph F JF
Ergonomics 20160304 10
Psychophysical research on text legibility has historically investigated factors such as size, colour and contrast, but there has been relatively little direct empirical evaluation of typographic design itself, particularly in the emerging context of glance reading. In the present study, participants performed a lexical decision task controlled by an adaptive staircase method. Two typefaces, a 'humanist' and 'square grotesque' style, were tested. Study I examined positive and negative polarities ...[more]