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From: rosenstn@hi3.ACA.MCC.COM (Mark Rosenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts
Subject: Re: Gray Scale Fonts in an Application
Summary: experiment comparing gray scale fonts and paper
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Date: 17 Oct 89 12:42:41 GMT
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In article <69500002@hollin>, ds@hollin.prime.com writes:
> 

> Some experiments would be useful and perhaps necessary for answering the
> question.
> 
Folks might look at "CRT Typeface Design and Evaluation" by 
Walter Bender, Ruth Ann Crespo, Peter J. Kennedy, and Richard Oakley
in Proceedings of the Human Factors Society, 31st Annual Meeting 1987.

From the Abstract:
"This paper discusses some of the current work to improve CRT
readablility. Specifically, we have developed software to be used by a
typography designer to design anti-aliased (or "grayscale") CRT
typefaces. A new anti-aliased typeface was designed and tested for
readablilty."

From the Results:
"The mean reading speed for text articles presented in hardcopy was
137.78 words per minute (wpm). The mean reading speed for the
experimental font was 158.56wpm.

The data suggests that proofreading with the new anti-aliased typeface
on an analog color display is faster than from a hardcopy. This result
is significant at the p = 0.05 level."

Mark Rosenstein
"Research: Trust the Process"