{"id":18,"date":"2008-04-19T18:12:33","date_gmt":"2008-04-19T21:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigital.com\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2009-02-08T11:57:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-08T13:57:49","slug":"legibility-and-readability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigital.com\/english\/2008\/04\/legibility-and-readability\/","title":{"rendered":"Legibility and readability"},"content":{"rendered":"

Reading a text from the World Wide Web has become usual in our culture. We are experiencing a shifting of paradigms: from the printed paper to the computer screen (or from atoms to bits). This transition is modifying how we read and understand a text. Considering that digital media has a fastest pace for performing actions, as reading for example, we could informally state that most users instead of \u2018reading\u2019, \u2018scan\u2019 the pages: the reading speed is about a 30% slower, the comprehension and understanding of the text goes down to a 50%.<\/p>\n

Legibility & Readability\u00a0(on the World Wide Web)<\/em><\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Since 1999 \u2013when we were invited to give a workshop in the typography and design conference\u00a0tpG Buenos Aires<\/a>\u2013 we have been researching on the topic of legibility on the computer screen, mainly focused on the browser’s window.<\/p>\n

To develop this idea and following some experiments conducted on the\u00a0Software Usability Research Lab<\/a> of the Wichita University (USA), we designed a system that consists of a dynamic website that pools data from a relational DB and presents the user with different reading possibilities. In order to avoid repetition to the minimum expression we used a Latin Square design.<\/p>\n

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We tested four different axes:<\/p>\n