The effects of Chinese typeface design, stroke weight, and contrast polarity on glance based legibility

doi:10.1016/j.displa.2015.12.001

	The effects of Chinese typeface design, stroke weight, and contrast polarity on glance based legibility
	Dobres, Jonathan 1,2; Chahine, Nadine 3; Reimer, Bryan 1,2; Gould, David 3; Zhao, Nan4
摘要	Modern interfaces increasingly rely on screens filled with digital text to display information to users. Previous research has shown that even relatively subtle differences in the design of the on-screen typeface can influence to-device glance time in a measurable and meaningful way (Reimer et al., 2014). Here we outline a methodology for rapidly and flexibly investigating the legibility of typefaces on digital screens in glance-like contexts, and apply this method to a comparison of 5 Simplified Chinese typefaces. We find that the legibility of the typefaces, measured as the minimum presentation time needed to read character strings accurately and respond to a yes/no lexical decision task, is sensitive to differences in the typeface's design characteristics. The most legible typeface under study ("MT YingHei") could be read 33.1% faster than the least legible typeface in this glance-induced context. A second study examined two different weights of the MT YingHei type family (medium and bold), as well as two contrast polarity (color) conditions to investigate how these variations impact legibility thresholds. Results indicate that bold weight text is easier to read in this enforced glance-like context, and that positive polarity text (black on white) is easier to read compared to white on black text under the lighting conditions considered. These results are discussed in terms of contextual factors that may mediate glance-reading behavior, as well as how type design interacts with the practical limitations of a moderate density pixel grid. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
关键词	Legibility Typeface Visual Perception Font Weight Contrast Polarity
	2016
语种	英语
DOI	10.1016/j.displa.2015.12.001
发表期刊	DISPLAYS
ISSN	0141-9382
卷号	41 期号:0 页码:42-49
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
WOS关键词	BACKGROUND POLARITY ; PERIPHERAL-VISION ; COLOR COMBINATION ; TEXT ; CHARACTERS ; PERFORMANCE ; TYPOGRAPHY ; INTERFACE ; DISPLAY ; SCREEN
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Technology ; Physical Sciences
WOS研究方向	Computer Science ; Engineering ; Instruments & Instrumentation ; Optics
WOS类目	Computer Science, Hardware & Architecture ; Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Instruments & Instrumentation ; Optics
WOS记录号	WOS:000373547900007
资助机构	US Department of Transportation's Region I New England University Transportation Center at MIT
引用统计	被引频次：11[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19961
专题	中国科学院行为科学重点实验室
作者单位	1.MIT, AgeLab, 77 Massachusetts Ave,E40-209, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA 2.Univ New England, Transportat Ctr, 77 Massachusetts Ave,E40-209, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA 3.Monotype Imaging Inc, 600 Unicorn Pk Dr, Woburn, MA 01801 USA 4.Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, Key Lab Behav Sci, 16 Lincui Rd, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Dobres, Jonathan,Chahine, Nadine,Reimer, Bryan,et al. The effects of Chinese typeface design, stroke weight, and contrast polarity on glance based legibility[J]. DISPLAYS,2016,41(0):42-49.
APA	Dobres, Jonathan,Chahine, Nadine,Reimer, Bryan,Gould, David,&Zhao, Nan.(2016).The effects of Chinese typeface design, stroke weight, and contrast polarity on glance based legibility.DISPLAYS,41(0),42-49.
MLA	Dobres, Jonathan,et al."The effects of Chinese typeface design, stroke weight, and contrast polarity on glance based legibility".DISPLAYS 41.0(2016):42-49.

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