The time taken to recognize whether or not a sequence of letters forms a legal word or not as opposed to the time and effort taken to read a whole sentence in upper case or mixed case. Apologies if this wasn't clear in my earlier post.
Steven -----Original Message----- From: Lindsay Marshall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 2:48 PM To: Steven Clarke; Derek M Jones; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: PPIG discuss: Effect of letter casing on readability > It actually looks like at least some of the research might indicate that > mixed case is harder to read than all upper case, at least when ease of > reading is measured by time taken to recognize legal words. DEFINE HARDER TO READ. IT GETS EXTREMELY TIRING AND TRYING TO HAVE TO READ STUFF WRITTEN IN ALL CAPS. MUCH MORE SO THAN READING STIFF IN ALL LOWERCASE. l. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
