Helmut Wollmersdorfer

Bounding box, abbreviated bbox, is used in image processing for a simple geometric hull in the shape of a rectangle parallel to the coordinate system of the background ("canvas"). It should… (View Post)


Sure, readability is important for reading. What else? It's in the name. It's for reading text, thus text faces at text sizes. Headlines, titles and logos have other criteria. Legibility is … (View Post)


If a problem is multiparadigmatic like legibility of fonts it can be reduced to fewer dimensions. Ann Bessemans did this in her dissertation Letterontwerp voor kinderen met een visuele funct… (View Post)

I see 3 glitches: yo ucan ho tel kn ow In all 3 cases \o is involved. (View Post)


If someone likes to use Fraktur, he should stick to the old traditions. IMHO Fraktur is hard to read fast. But it has some place in advertisements, beer labels and signs of pubs. Unifraktur … (View Post)