All,
Does anybody know of any study that has investigated
the visual similarity of computer language punctuators
and operators? For instance, how visually similar is ( to
O and l, and so on...
The studies by Kuennapas (Visual perception of capital letters
and Multidimensional similarity of
I think there may be some studies on discriminability of various shapes,
probably in the 60s or 70s, that may be relevant. There was certainly one
result showing that of the various pairs obtained by taking one each of |,
_, / and \ the hardest pair to discriminate was \ and /.
Guess which
How about some of Hofstadter's work on letter spirit (or whatever it was
he calls it)?
L.
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Lindsay,
How about some of Hofstadter's work on letter spirit (or whatever it was
he calls it)?
This was a project/methodology for generating fonts according to various
rules. The generated glyphs tended to be angular and somewhat
unfriendly (to my eye at least). The whole thing struck me
