Re: accessible font research

- Trebuchet is a fairly accessible typeface, for instance the  
characters: l, I, 1, cl (d), rn (m), are all fairly well defined,  
unlike typefaces like: Arial or Myraid.

- Preference based opinions will not lead to useful data, what do you  
want them to do? (CRI)

- For typefaces: www.fonts.com, www.linotype.com, www.fontshop.com,  
www.adobe.com/type/.

Kind regards

Thomas

User design

Graphic communication design,
illustration and production service

W www.userdesign.co.uk
E [email protected]





--- On Tue, 26/5/09, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> From: [email protected] <[email protected]>
> Subject: InfoD-Cafe: accessible font research
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Tuesday, 26 May, 2009, 2:43 PM
> Hi
>
> I am working on a small project with a local council with
> regard to the
> accessibility and readability of their corporate font. They
> currently use
> Trebuchet but have been criticised by a local disability
> organisation for
> doing this. They say it is not accessible. As a result they
> have engaged
> my services to explore and gain opinions from others about
> the general
> accessibility of Trebuchet in comparison to other (mainly)
> system fonts.
> They are willing to consider moving to a new font but would
> prefer this to
> be a system font so that everyone in the organisation can
> access it. I
> have conducted some primary consultations via telephone and
> email
> opinion-based research. Before I send out mockups of fonts
> chosen to trial
> with selected user groups - these have been selected to
> cover a range of
> impairment, age and other audiences - I would like to ask
> the following:
>
> i) what people think about Trebuchet with regard to
> accessibility
> ii) current preferred fonts re: accessibility. NB They are
> also looking
> for a font which has a good range of weights and a good xy
> height
> difference so please take this into consideration
> iii) ideas on user testing to gain feedback - we are
> planning to send each
> user group a selection of fonts using the same text to ask
> them which they
> prefer and why. Has anyone carried out anything similar and
> if so do you
> have any advice on how to structure/phrase the questions?
>
> All comments/feedback gratefully received.
>
> With thanks
>
> Katie Grant
> Raincharm Communications
> www.raincharm.co.uk
> 07971 909007

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