Using these we decided which were easiest to read down to hardest, individually, then as a table and finally as a class.
I decided that script was hardest to read and gothic was the easiest.
- Gothic was easiest because they have wider letters, no serifs, easy clean curves, wider letters and larger gaps between the letters making them easier to read.
- Script is all joined up and too close, with decorative or serifs.
- Block is thick and close together, which makes it hard to read.
- Serifs are in the middle, when type with serifs are used in body copy it becomes a lot easier than when they are on a larger part of text.
- Bigger bowls and counters make it easier to read, this is because we naturally look at those to recognise the letter rather than the stroke.
- Roman fonts can be defined after a while whereas gothic fonts can be muddled up.
- Serifs work better in lowercase and sans work better in uppercase
What makes something readable
- Tracking, contrast in glyphs, kerning depending on font, size of bowls, counters and x height.
- Gothic and Roman fonts are normally body copy, easy to read on a small scale
- Counters are the most important part of the text
Legibility is the degree to which glyphs in text are understandable based on appearance
- Kerning - space between two letters, it affects legibility of individual letterforms
- Leading - space between lines above and below
- Tracking - spacing letters out
- Readability - ease in which text can be understood/read
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