Millions of people have low vision, a disability condition caused by uncorrectable or partially correctable disorders of the eye. The primary goal of low vision rehabilitation is increasing access to printed material. This paper describes how adjustable typography, a computer graphic approach to enhancing text accessibility, can play a role in this process, by allowing visually-impaired users t...

Death is something that all humans have to face. In delivering their final resting place, there are various series of ceremonies also require property, one which a tombstone. Tombstones form respect for those who died and function as markers community archives because in them information about died, year birth death, service, position. so it can be conveyed easily, accurate typography needed or...

Introduction The design of information on the printed page or on the computer screen must express the overall structure of that information in order to be understood by the reader. Various conventions of typography communicate the meta-structure of a block of text such as size of type, weight of font, use of indents, initial capitals (derived from illuminated capitals in the manuscript traditio...

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BraiWe characters and letters were presented to the senses of touch and vision of sighted observers. The optical stimuli were subjected to low-pass spatial filtering to the degree that visual spatial resolution closely matched tactile spatial resolution (re the size of characters presented). In one experiment, three sets of braille characters and five sets of Roman letters, varying in typograph...

This study examines the visual aesthetic function of English signs in line with ethnographic approaches as a means of achieving various symbolic and communicative implications in the linguistic landscape (LL) of Jordan. Having coded the data in 6 urban streets of the major Jordanian cities, the social semiotic analysis centers on the visual layout of signs based on the typographical features of...

The attempts of a person with low vision to learn Chinese as a second language raised issues in typography and human-computer interaction. This paper describes such issues and attempts to address them.

We conducted an experiment using two Japanese typographies and sixteen words, having positive/negative emotional valence, to investigate the effects of harmonization between a word’s meaning and typography for harmonized and ill-harmonized conditions. Four different words two positive and two negative were simultaneously presented at the four corners of a display. Participants’ eye movements we...