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Category: legibility

legibility/usability/visibility/visual design

Plan ahead when designing semi-transparent overlays

Posted on January 14, 2015 by Alex Poole

This is a web version of the common problem you see in subtitled films – white text on a white background is going to be very hard to read (see Gaîté lyri...

Colin Wheildon/legibility/Ole Lund/reading/sans serif/serif/typography

Fighting bad typography research

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Alex Poole

When you hear claims which are radically different from the established body of research, you should rightly be sceptical - here we go two rounds with some rogu...

legibility/reading/sans serif/serif/typography

Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of...

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Original research

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