Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Examining the Legibility of Two New ClearType Fonts (06 Mar 2006) This article introduces six new ClearType fonts developed by Microsoft. Legibility of two of the serif fonts, Cambria and Constantia, is compared to the traditional serif font Times New Roman. Results show that the legibility, as measured by the number of correct identifications of briefly presented characters, was highest for the new font Cambria, followed by Constantia, and then Times New Roman. Old style digits, such as 0,1, and 2, used in Constantia resulted in confusion with the letters o, l, and z. Times New Roman symbols were confused with both letters and other symbols. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://psychology.wichita.edu/surl/usabilitynews/81/legibility.htm Read 117 more articles from Software Usability Research Laboratory sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Just Build It: HTML Prototyping and Agile Development          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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