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Article #772Re: Readability of right justified text
From: Chuq Von Rospach
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1987 19:28
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1987 19:28
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From: ames!pyramid!osu-eddie!verber%tut.cis.ohio-state.edu@RUTGERS.EDU (Mark A. Verber)
Date: 10 Jul 87 15:48:23 GMT
Organization: Ohio State University, Computer Science
There was an article in the journal "Human Factors" which appeared sometime
in the last 4 years dealing with the subject of right justified text. The
study had subjects read text in unjustified format, justified using only
inter-word spacing, and text justified on a using real letting and kerning.
The reader preformance was almost identical between the non justified text
and the text done using inter-character spacing. The inter-word spacing
preformance was much worst. As I recall, the reading time increased 60%
and comprehension was down 20% when people had to deal with inter-word
spacing.
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