design for the web What makes letters legible?
01/08/2011 Comments Off
A brilliant article by Ralf Herrmann on legibility ~ well worth a read :-)
My own approach to research such legibility aspects of letter design was to use a real-time simulation software. While I was working on the design of individual letters in the font editor FontLab Studio, the tool showed me a simulated view of test words with the letters I was just working on. With this tool I could remove the guesswork and was able to optimize my design even for the worst reading conditions possible.
Legibility Test Tool from Ralf Herrmann on Vimeo.
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