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Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
Readability is not a science, because any of its theories can easily be falsified simply by changing the font or the type specs. Measuring the effectiveness of one typeface versus another is not sc… (View Post)1 -
Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
Readability is a pseudo-science. Type design and typography are arts. (View Post)1 -
Re: Sans Forgettica - can 'Desirable Difficulty' really aid memory?
It’s promising that science and humanities faculties collaborated for this student project, but the science and design methodologies are as full of holes as Ecofont. What’s really being taught—how to… (View Post)4 -
Re: An Italic for Uccello
Even more. Imagine the angled nib on the top-left-to-bottom-right strokes—because a broad-nibbed ductus is fundamental to this style, only thinned at joints. You might also try thickening the x and y… (View Post)2 -
Re: Smallcaps vs. Bold, Slanted/Oblique vs. Italic
A monotone grey for body text contrast is preferable—because that way when someone looks at a whole page or a column of type the italics (or small caps) used for textual emphasis don’t jump out. The… (View Post)4