Serifs and font legibility

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 2926-2933

  Arditi, Aries ^a   Cho, Jianna ^a  

^a Arlene R Gordon Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Legibility; Low vision; Reading; Typography

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRINTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; VISUAL AID; VISUAL DISORDER; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COMPREHENSION; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; VISION, LOW; VISUAL ACUITY; WRITING;

EID: 24944450691     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2005.06.013     Document Type: Article

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