>The designers of multimedia packages here at the OU are very fond of using
>anti-aliased fonts in their software. My feeling is that, although these
>make for very pretty screens, they are less clear than conventional, single
>tone, vector fonts particularly when viewed with screen magnification
>software.
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>Do other people have views on this or better still does anyone know of any
research that has been done into legibility criteria which I can use to
>support the case for easy to read screens.
Some research has been done in this area...the sasoon font has been designed
specifically for dyslexic readers. Two of the features are elongated ascenders
and descenders. Unfortunately it is not freely available.
When we prepare documents for dyslexic readers on a pc we use arial font..which
is a sans serif and which most say they prefer...but we have not done a proper
scientific survey on the matter.
Maria Welch
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Maria Welch, Computing Fellow phone 01227 823784
Dyslexia Group fax 01227 762811
Computing Laboratory
University of Kent at Canterbury
Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK
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