Date: 2012-06-16 04:38 pm (UTC)
codeman38: Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, with a speech bubble reading 'Contemplation No. 1'. (contemplation)
From: [personal profile] codeman38
The spacing thing... I'd never thought about it, but that's totally one of the reasons for why I find some fonts to be so much easier to read than others. The minimum width of a space differs on a per-font basis!

Date: 2012-06-17 12:28 am (UTC)
codeman38: Osaka from Azumanga Daioh, with a speech bubble reading 'Contemplation No. 1'. (contemplation)
From: [personal profile] codeman38
One thing that bugs me, that I'd like to see further research on... I found the original article for this research (full-text version is free), and as far as I can tell, they didn't control for letter spacing vs. word spacing vs. line spacing, but simply increased all three proportionally.

For me, the spacing between letters isn't as significant as that between words and lines. I've found that I particularly have processing issues when line spacing is tight, where I'll skip lines or combine two adjacent lines together. Spacing between words is also a problem; there've been a few books I've tried to read where the spacing was so bad that words all sort of rantogetherlikethis. Inter-letter spacing is actually the least problematic for me, unless it's really tightly kerned.

Date: 2012-06-16 06:12 pm (UTC)
mc776: The blocky spiral motif based on the golden ratio that I use for various ID icons, ending with a red centre. (Default)
From: [personal profile] mc776
Okay that book thing is just depressing... especially when I saw the covers and thought it was just some executive meddling with what would otherwise be nearly identical books.

Gonna keep the spacing thing in mind though... are there any pictures so I can see what kind of spacing is meant?

Date: 2012-06-17 06:55 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] mayna.livejournal.com
I saw about those survival guides on Facebook... how they got published, we'll never know. Surely someone should've said "hmmm maybe being this gender-biased isn't such a good idea in this day and age..."

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