Comments on: What if the design gods forsake us? http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2008/what-if-the-design-gods-forsake-us/ Digital product designer and writer Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:50:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Anonymous http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2008/what-if-the-design-gods-forsake-us/comment-page-1/#comment-15156 Anonymous Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:19:55 +0000 http://www.cennydd.co.uk/wordpress/?p=136#comment-15156 Lime? In a gin and tonic? In a vodka and tonic, naturellement. But with gin? Lemon, every time. You must be a smoker ;-) Lime?

In a gin and tonic?

In a vodka and tonic, naturellement. But with gin? Lemon, every time.

You must be a smoker ;-)

]]> By: G F Mueden http://www.cennydd.co.uk/2008/what-if-the-design-gods-forsake-us/comment-page-1/#comment-425 G F Mueden Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:16:16 +0000 http://www.cennydd.co.uk/wordpress/?p=136#comment-425 For over a year I have been searching for "legibility testing, grading, and Standards", but with little success. I want to tie the optometrist's near vision eye chart to (1) the distribution of visual acuity in the population, and (2) s spectrum of printed materia;s, including a variety of fonts & sizes, print and paper colors, spacing, etc., the whole effort to produce an objective measure of legibility related to the percent of the population that would have difficulty reading it. To this end I have started to collect samples of printed material that offended me with the objective of comparing them to the various lines on the chart, thus giving each a legibility grade. Arbitrary? Unscientific? Unreliable? Probably, but not so much as to leave it without value, because any grading system will be better than none. ===gm=== For over a year I have been searching for “legibility testing, grading, and Standards”, but with little success.
I want to tie the optometrist’s near vision eye chart to (1) the distribution of visual acuity in the population, and (2) s spectrum of printed materia;s, including a variety of fonts & sizes, print and paper colors, spacing, etc., the whole effort to produce an objective measure of legibility related to the percent of the population that would have difficulty reading it.

To this end I have started to collect samples of printed material that offended me with the objective of comparing them to the various lines on the chart, thus giving each a legibility grade. Arbitrary? Unscientific? Unreliable? Probably, but not so much as to leave it without value, because any grading system will be better than none.

===gm===

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