From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,768ec7d79291ed2c X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: William Clodius Subject: Re: IDENTIFIERS in Upper Case Date: 1997/03/28 Message-ID: <333BF206.59E2@lanl.gov>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 229046272 References: <1997Mar26.185431.12742@nosc.mil> <333AB9A0.7284@grammatech.com> Organization: Los Alamos National Lab Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1997-03-28T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Robert A Duff wrote: > > Anybody have any references about readability of different sorts of > fonts? Colors? > This is VERY application specific. Most contexts probably benefit from a proportional serif font. (Note however, the most commonly available such font, Times Roman is intended for newspaper work where density is important, its letters tend to be more narrow with less spacing than ideal for most applications.) However, I suspect most readers of this group are not interested in most applications, but are rather interested in the display of text on monitors for a few selected applications, e.g., email, and editing code. Serif looses its advantages as resolution decreases, so sans-serif tends to be preferred for display on monitors, however some serifs can work well on monitors. Similarly, for the applications that I suspect are of greatest interest to this group monospaced fonts work better than proportional fonts. Simple automated pretty printing almost requires a monospaced font. I suggest an exampination of the comp.fonts FAQ, (particularly the section on typography) http://www.ora.com/homepages/comp.fonts/FAQ.html the NASA interface component style guide http://groucho.gsfc.nasa.gov/Code_520/Code_522/Documents/HCI_Guidelines/Interface_Component_Design.html -- William B. Clodius Phone: (505)-665-9370 Los Alamos Nat. Lab., NIS-2 FAX: (505)-667-3815 PO Box 1663, MS-C323 Group office: (505)-667-5776 Los Alamos, NM 87545 Email: wclodius@lanl.gov