For me, perceived legibility is important because I serve users with visual impairments that range from peripheral vision loss to total blindness. Some of them use screen magnifiers, which can be a PITA to navigate with. Any slight legibility advantage for them translates to less magnification and an experience that's more like yours and mine.
Perceived attractiveness matters less to me, but I think the impressions of the people studied might be important for some designers, marketing people and the like. The fonts included in the study are still among the most-used online fonts, even five years later, so that seems relevant too. Less than half of the study has any merit from my point of view, but those bits may be worth knowing. Would a larger sampling be more valid? Sure. Based on some experience with low-vision users, I don't think the "perceived legibility" results would change much unless we added another font designed specifically for people with impaired vision. As far as I know, that font doesn't yet exist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=24248 ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
