Comparing typefaces for airport signs

Information Design Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 1-15

  Waller, Robert ^a  

^a Head of Information Design Enterprise IG   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Legibility; Signage; Transport information; Typographic research; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249134534     PISSN: 01425471     EISSN: 1569979X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/idj.15.1.01wal     Document Type: Article

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