Perceived readability of warning labels with varied font sizes and styles

Silver, N. Clayton; Braun, Curt C.

doi:10.1016/0925-7535(93)90026-a

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“…As he presents, larger font sizes can make more spaces between lines, therefore, they can decrease crowding. Silver and Braun's (1993) examination on the effect of type size on readability of warnings of the drugs supports Delamater's (2010) idea. They used 8 and 10 point sizes.…”

Section: Size Selectionmentioning

confidence: 49%

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The Effect of Text Typographical Features on Legibility, Comprehension, and Retrieval of EFL Learners

Soleimani¹,

Mohammadi²

2012

ELT

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This experimental study investigated the relationship between font type, font size, and line spacing and legibility, as measured by speed of reading, comprehension, and recalling. Instruments for testing legibility and reading comprehension were presented in eight typographical styles in print. The study tested 90 students for legibility and 76 students for comprehension. The subjects were chosen from Urmia Language Center in Urmia, Iran, and they were both girls and boys. Two weeks after the reading comprehension test, the subjects took part in recalling test. In all tests, the subjects were randomly assigned to one of the eight different typographical styles with Arial or Bookman Old Style (font selection) and 10pt or 12pt (font size). But the subjects had both set solid and double spaced leading in their instruments. Results indicated that the 12pt was read faster than 10pt. But font selection and line spacing did not have any significant effect on reading speed. Also, there were no significant results with regard to comprehension and recalling.

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Section: Size Selectionmentioning

confidence: 49%

“…Because as Delamater (2010) presents, larger font sizes can make more spaces between the lines, therefore, they can decrease crowding, and as Silver and Braun (1993) have concluded, the higher legibility of the larger size could be because of creating more visual angel which makes the words and letters more distinguishable.…”

Section: Type Sizementioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Text Typographical Features on Legibility, Comprehension, and Retrieval of EFL Learners

Soleimani¹,

Mohammadi²

2012

ELT

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“…Also, there were no significant results with regard to comprehension and recalling. Silver and Braun's (1993) examination on the effect of type size on readability of warnings of the drugs supports Delamater's (2010) idea. They used 8 and 10 point sizes and concluded from their study that the warning printed in 10 point type was perceived more readable than 8 point type was.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 49%

“…They used 8 and 10 point sizes and concluded from their study that the warning printed in 10 point type was perceived more readable than 8 point type was. Silver and Braun (1993) studied on warning readability on the labeling of various consumer products and reported that Helvetica type was perceived to be more readable than Times or Goudy. Moreover, the Times was perceived to be more readable than Goudy.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Optimal laptop VDU parameter setting using Taguchi method

Gangele¹,

Mishra²

2015

10.5267/j.msl

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This paper shows that the Taguchi method of optimization can be easily used in optimizing the visual display unit (VDU) parameters for maximizing the readability on the laptop. Researchers use five factors, each at three levels which are font size, font style, line spacing, viewing distance and screen inclination angle with reading time in seconds (for reading about 300 words) as the response variable. Other parameters like text/background color combination (black/white), table height, illumination etc. were kept constant. Experiments were conducted by varying different parameters on the basis of L27 orthogonal array design. Results show that there is a 15.3% decrease in mean reading time when working at optimal condition. Results also show that factor A is the most important factor which is font size followed by factor C (line spacing), factor E (screen inclination angle), factor D (viewing distance) and factor B (the font style) which is the least important factor.Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 5

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“…Also, the labels printed in 14 point font were judged easier to read than those in 9 and 12 point fonts. Similarly, Silver and Braun (1993) found that product labels printed in 10 point font were perceived as more readable compared to product labels printed in 8 point font. Young and Wogalter (1990) demonstrated that warnings printed more conspicuously with larger, wider-stroke print with orange highlighting were better recalled than warnings printed less conspicuously with smaller, thinner, non-highlighted print.…”

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confidence: 99%

Effects of label format on knowledge acquisition and perceived readability by younger and older adults

Wogalter

Vigilante²

2003

Ergonomics

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This research examines consumers' information acquisition and preference for labels of a simulated over-the-counter (OTC) medication. Twelve otherwise identical OTC drug bottles were compared with different back labels varying in (a) print size, (b) amount of white space between text, and (c) label design (standard vs extended/pull-out). A no back label condition served as a control. Older (mean age=77.7 years) and younger (mean age=21 years) adults were given one of the 12 bottles and asked to perform one of two information acquisition tasks: (a) they examined the bottle for 3 minutes and then completed a questionnaire with the bottle absent, or (b) they answered the same questionnaire while the bottle was present. Afterwards, participants were given all of the bottles and asked to rank them according to perceived readability. The younger adults' information acquisition performance was significantly better than the older adults' for all label conditions except the control condition where both groups' low performance did not differ. Specifically, the older adults' performance was significantly better in the medium and large print conditions than in the small print conditions -with the latter conditions not differing from the control condition. Younger adults showed no performance differences among the different print-size conditions. No substantial effects on knowledge acquisition performance from the white space manipulations were found. However, the perceived readability ranks showed that both groups preferred larger print size and white space. The white space effect was smaller than for print size, particularly for older adults. The extended/pull-out label design was facilitative for older adults in that it allowed the use of larger print. The results suggest that older consumers may be unable to acquire information in the 'fine' print frequently found in various kinds of product literature.

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Perceived readability of warning labels with varied font sizes and styles

Cited by 53 publications

References 7 publications

The Effect of Text Typographical Features on Legibility, Comprehension, and Retrieval of EFL Learners

The Effect of Text Typographical Features on Legibility, Comprehension, and Retrieval of EFL Learners

Optimal laptop VDU parameter setting using Taguchi method

Effects of label format on knowledge acquisition and perceived readability by younger and older adults

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