Re: Learning more from harder-to-read fonts?
Charles Foster <[email protected]> Tue, 7 Jun 2011 10:41:09 +0100
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.infodesign.general |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
--===============2068115513== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=Apple-Mail-6-567471460 --Apple-Mail-6-567471460 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Well, Sue, I hope that you have found this discussion interesting! One more point I forgot to make in my first contribution. The study used already existing handouts and PPT slides which were presumably designed by teachers, not designers. My experience of having two secondary school age children tells me that teachers are not very good at designing their own material. Most of the worksheets and handouts that I have seen are laid out in Word, straight out of the tin in Times or Comic Sans, and the Powerpoint slides use the usual range of cheesy templates. Quite a lot of stuff has also been copied from books and recopied many times. There's plenty of disfluency about, without it being deliberately added to. Charles -------------------------------------- Charles Foster Tel: 00 353 1 454 8929 email: [email protected] website: www.charlesfoster.info --Apple-Mail-6-567471460 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=US-ASCII <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "> Well, Sue, I hope that you have found this discussion = interesting!<div><br></div><div>One more point I forgot to make in my = first contribution.</div><div><br></div><div>The study used already = existing handouts and PPT slides which were presumably designed by = teachers, not designers. My experience of having two secondary school = age children tells me that teachers are not very good at designing their = own material. Most of the worksheets and handouts that I have seen are = laid out in Word, straight out of the tin in Times or Comic Sans, and = the Powerpoint slides use the usual range of cheesy = templates. </div><div><br></div><div>Quite a lot of stuff has also = been copied from books and recopied many = times.</div><div><br></div><div>There's plenty of disfluency about, = without it being deliberately added = to.</div><div><br></div><div>Charles</div><div><br></div><div><br><div> = <span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"border-collapse: separate; = color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: = normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: = normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: = 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: = 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: = Verdana; font-size: 11px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; = font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; = orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; = widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; = -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: = auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 12px; "><div><span = class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: 11px; = "><div>--------------------------------------</div><div>Charles = Foster</div><div>Tel: 00 353 1 454 8929</div><div>email: <a = href=3D"mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></div><div>webs= ite: <a = href=3D"http://www.charlesfoster.info">www.charlesfoster.info</a></div></s= pan></div></span></div><div><br></div></span><br = class=3D"Apple-interchange-newline"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" = style=3D"font-size: = medium;"><br></span></span></div></div></body></html>= --Apple-Mail-6-567471460-- --===============2068115513== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline ___________________________________________________________________ Use the following address to post a message to all subscribers: [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe or change your options, visit: http://list.InformationDesign.org/mailman/listinfo/infodesign-cafe For all Information Design matters: http://InformationDesign.org Problems? Write to: [email protected] ___________________________________________________________________ --===============2068115513==--