... of the altered protocol? For the purpose of continuous reading both spacing implementations seem tolerable. On closer inspection the ... I will need you to work things out at ths level. You say immersive reading is counterintuitive, but yet you use your intuition to ...

Forum topic - raph - 7 Apr 2005 - 2:39pm - 99 comments - 0 attachments

... with me and show me round the typography department at Reading University. Nick, to understand what a Nick, to understand what ... manner. So paradoxically, a face designed for immersive reading still has to look good at display size. With the best of ...

Forum topic - Stephen Coles - 11 Aug 2007 - 12:49pm - 145 comments - 0 attachments

... time to time you still see it. I seem to remember reading somewhere ( Printing Types ...?) that the italic upper case ... that those kind of details have a functional effect on immersive reading, whether or not they are deliberatively noticed. And ...

Forum topic - George Horton - 4 Apr 2006 - 9:25am - 83 comments - 0 attachments

... added, and the small caps fixed. This version is for text/reading, 12pt and below. All of the weirdness that used to be in it has been ... too strong a pattern that ruins the texture (affecting immersive reading). So it’s not a legibility issue (almost anything is ...

Forum topic - kris - 27 Apr 2004 - 3:52am - 55 comments - 0 attachments

... i think more than giving a i think more than giving a reading edge, these alternate glyphs give a juvenile feel to the design. ... depends on us a bit.) To me the best “q” for reading is the one with a single-sided bottom serif. > these alternate ... At the right learning point. And it certainly helps immersive reading. hhp (General Discussions) ...

Forum topic - paul d hunt - 19 Apr 2006 - 8:09am - 11 comments - 0 attachments

... optical size - should work better at the normal sizes for immersive reading - 10 to 14 pt, say. The word BOOK refers to the The word BOOK ...

Forum topic - noftus - 18 Apr 2006 - 2:26am - 5 comments - 0 attachments

... binocular “g” can cause a -minor- reading hiccup. In contrast, the only people who are really adversely affected ... closed-bottom binocular “g” can cause a -minor- reading hiccup This may be, but what bothers me about the single-story ... not direction (which is essentially moot for immersive reading, although admittedly not for display). What’s ...

Forum topic - londontype - 31 Jan 2006 - 2:21pm - 59 comments - 0 attachments

... and font.” In “Neuroimaging Studies of Reading Development and Reading Disability” Kenneth R. Pugh, et. al. (W. ... in each and every visual wordform resolutional event. For immersive reading it is important that they aren’t. I did not mean ...

Forum topic - John Hudson - 30 Mar 2006 - 9:37pm - 35 comments - 0 attachments

... is context of what is being read. If, for instance, I am reading a steamy romance novel or a physical science book I will be deep into ... than fonts meant for signage. This is because during immersive reading we try to read *words*, not letters, and this ...

Forum topic - Miss Tiffany - 17 Jul 2001 - 2:29pm - 6 comments - 0 attachments

... even perhaps be hypotheses that predict much the same reading behaviors, but strictly-speaking they are different ... literally ’sharp-rendering’. In the immersive reading of the experienced motivated reader, what is ... but if we compare the time it takes to resolve a word in immersive reading to identifying a letter within a known word or a letter in a ...

Forum topic - jlg4104 - 21 Mar 2006 - 5:56am - 114 comments - 0 attachments