: Which font is the quickest to read? Which font is the least misread? Are there scientific experiments, measurements on these? Which fonts make you read certain words twice, sometimes letter by
Are there scientific experiments, measurements on these?
Which fonts make you read certain words twice, sometimes letter by letter?
Fonts might also differ in how tiring they are for the eyes and brain.
As billions of people spend hours reading day by day, even tiny efficiency improvements have a significant value, much bigger value than the one-off cost of designing a most efficient font.
Which font has clearly distinct lI|1, O0, rnm?
To make reading faster, less ambiguous, less error/prone:
can you design a font with visually more distinct signs: e.g. capital i, lowercase l, 1 (one), | (the "or" sign) should be more distinct; capital o [a circle] and zero [not only narrow, but also tapering, almost like a rhombus]; r before n: rn should differ from m, c before l: cl should differ more from d [the vertical line of d could continue further down; this way would differ from the mirror of b too]. q should have the right curve appendix from its bottom point to make it different from 9 and the mirror image of p.
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If you're concerned with readability and distinct letter forms, and not so much with style, then the Dyslexia font (and others like it) might be worth considering.
www.dyslexiefont.com/en/dyslexia-font/
Are there scientific experiments, measurements on these?
Yes! But...
They are usually
inconclusive
use an incredibly small sample of users
are overly narrow in scope
tend to lack a lot of context
tend to ignore all the other aspects that go in to readability
So, I wouldn't put much weight into it at least on the broad "what is the best typeface" level.
Very good question. And a very complex one.
I just make some general statements.
1) Serif letters on printed media are easier to read with small line height spacing. (probably too on a high definition device)
Proportionally sans serif fonts need more line height so the eye can keep track of the line its reading.
The main reason is that the serif helps the eye making an horizontal pattern.
2) A condensed version is a little harder to read than an extended version.
3) A monospaced font is widley used in programming becouse programmers need to see not only the general idea, but the exact information they are reading and writting. This is also true with numbers. The vertical align monospaced fonts gives is very helpfull to spot some errors, for example 10000 vs 100000.
They need to read not only the line on which a character is but sometimes the column onwhere that character is.
An interesting exercise:
I cnduo't bvleiee taht I culod aulaclty uesdtannrd waht I was rdnaieg. Unisg the icndeblire pweor of the hmuan mnid, aocdcrnig to rseecrah at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it dseno't mttaer in waht oderr the lterets in a wrod are, the olny irpoamtnt tihng is taht the frsit and lsat ltteer be in the rhgit pclae.
You can not do that in programming or an acounting book.
4) On small blocks of text, the shape and weight of the font helps reading the meaning. For example the word no is easier to read if I do this: NO.
5) In general terms 2 very important aspects are spacing and white space. If you don't have clear spacing and you have uncntrolled white blocks the eye does not make a continuos movement.
This is for the western roman-cyrilic typefaces. For other character sets I have no idea.
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