Design Regression

We conducted a study online to address this question, comparing designers and non-designers. The results are somewhat surprising.

Tinker’s books are frequently cited providing a helpful summary of the legibility studies he conducted with Paterson starting in 1928. But unfortunately, if we look closely at the details of their methods, we may detect some flaws.

Design Regression is pleased to announce the publication of Mary Dyson’s book “Legibility: how and why typography affects ease of reading” in a new, digital edition, in English and Spanish.

We have expanded on our online study of disfluency to investigate whether the visual appearance of words is preserved in memory.

The third part of a mini-series discusses the technical requirements for language support at the level of paragraph and rasterization.

The second part of a mini-series discusses the technical requirements for language support at the level of encodings, keyboards, and word shaping.

An account of three studies carried out in order to investigate whether adjusting the design of books could help readers with a memory impairment.

Uyghurs have reformed the Arabic script in a very inventive way. We describe the journey of the Uyghur Arabic writing system from abjad to phonography.

Recent eye movement research is reviewed which questions whether long line lengths do cause reading difficulties.

We conducted an online study to see if designers respond in a different way to non-designers to a less legible typeface (Sans Forgetica), exploring judgments and memory.

Design Regression is a journalette publishing texts that are about design for reading and reading-related research.

The first part of a mini-series focused on the typographic design of documents that make use of two or more different world’s scripts.

A review of the 2018 paper by Kimberly Wong, Frempongma Wadee, Gali Ellenblum, and Michael McCloskey with interesting points about memory for letter shapes

A review of the 2005 paper by Mark A. Changizi and Shinsuke Shimojo exploring attributes shared across world’s scripts