“WE READ BEST WHAT WE READ MOST”
Zuzana Licko
“Typefaces are not intrinsically legible, rather, it is the reader’s familiarity with faces that accounts for their legibility”.
I think where all guilty of having to look at two or three times at the same piece of text until we can under stand it, I can still remember receiving birthday cards from my grandmother that would take a team CIA hackers to decipher but after getting one every year for the last 19 year I kinda get the picture now.
“Legibility is also a dynamic process, as readers’ habits are ever changing. Similarly, typestyles that we perceive as illegible today may well become tomorrow’s classic choices” Helvetica may in 1000 years be perceived like
Helvetica and street signs like this
STOP
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