FatFonts: Combining the symbolic and visual aspects of numbers

Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 407-414

  Nacenta, Miguel ^a   Hinrichs, Uta ^b   Carpendale, Sheelagh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

information visualization; numerals; typography

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INK; ARABIC NUMERALS; DESIGN GOAL; DESIGN PROCESS; DESIGN SPACES; DYNAMIC RANGE; INFORMATION VISUALIZATION; NUMERALS; NUMERICAL DATA; QUANTITATIVE DATA; QUANTITATIVE VALUES; TYPEFACE DESIGNS; TYPOGRAPHY; VISUAL ASPECTS; VISUAL CONTEXT; VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; VISUALIZATION;

TYPESETTING;

EID: 84863596402     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2254556.2254636     Document Type: Conference Paper

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