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The Math of Text Readability

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the looks-good-to-me dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Wired magazine has an article that explains The Law of Optical Volumes, a formula for spacing the letters on a printed page that results in maximum readability. Wired's new logo (did anyone notice?) obeys the law. Unfortunately, Web fonts don't allow custom kerning pairs, so you can't work the same magic online as in print. Could this be why some people still prefer newspapers and magazines to the Web?"

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  1. Re:Volumes not areas? by AvitarX · · Score: 1, Redundant

    RTFA.

    It is explained and really short too.

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  2. Re:latex by CRCulver · · Score: 0, Redundant

    The lmodern package provides the Latin alphabet portions of Computer Modern in a nice-looking Type 1 format.