Helvetica

Helvetica

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Published in B.S. Dhillon, Applied Reliability, Usability, and Quality for Engineers, 2023

Sans-serif fonts are simpler in shape because they consist of only basic line strokes. Two examples of sans-serif fonts are Helvetica and Arial. Some of the useful pointers directly or indirectly concerned with font usage are as follows [2, 14]: Avoid specifying as much as possible absolute font sizes and getting carried away in the use of font sizes, faces, and styles.Note that different browsers support different font faces.Use italics for defining terms or emphasising an occasional word.

Fonts of wider letter shapes improve letter recognition in parafovea and periphery

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Published in Ergonomics, 2022

Chiron A. T. Oderkerk, Sofie Beier

As we know that narrowly spaced objects induce crowding, we suggest the possibility that crowding also affects the misidentification of features within a narrow letter of multiple vertical strokes. Thus, as the height/width ratio of the counters of the lowercase ‘n’ is about 1/0.3 for Helvetica Neue Condensed, and the height/width ratio is about 1/0.6 for Helvetica Neue Extended, we speculate that the proximity in the narrow font of the vertical strokes of letters of multiple vertical strokes (such as the letter ‘m’) makes the letter counter more challenging to identify at the feature integration stage, which will lead to impaired recognition. This suggests that crowding may hamper the reading of narrow fonts.

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Fonts of wider letter shapes improve letter recognition in parafovea and periphery