Type & layout: how typography and design can get your message across - or get in the way
Type & layout: how typography and design can get your message across - or get in the way
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10.1075/idj.9.1.18lun
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1998
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通讯作者:
Ole Lund
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Ole Lund
In research collated by the British Medical Council [sic] in 1926, it was asserted that the absence of serifs in sans serif body type permitted what the council referred to as irradiation, an optical effect in which space between lines of type intruded into the letters, setting up a form of light vibration, which militated against comfortable reading. Serifs the research said, prevented this irradiation; thus serif types were easier to read.(1984, p. 18)For the sake of order: it was not the Medical Research Council or Pyke who'asserted'or'said'this about serifs and irradiation. What Pyke did, in his very comprehensive review of legibility studies, was simply to include, in a duty-bound and non-approving manner, coverage of six papers where the authors on a nonexperimental basis ascribed their preference for seriffed typefaces by arguing that serifs helped to prevent harmful irradiation (see Pyke 1926, pp. 21, 76, 99-101).