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From: rcd@ico.isc.com (Dick Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.fonts,comp.text
Subject: readability of old-style numerals?
Message-ID: <1991Feb14.215122.26635@ico.isc.com>
Date: 14 Feb 91 21:51:22 GMT
Followup-To: comp.fonts
Organization: Interactive Systems Corporation, Boulder, CO
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It's well known that mixed-case text is more readable than all-upper-case
text, the reason being that the variation in height across words gives more
information for recognition.  Does anyone know of comparable studies of
readability of numbers using conventional uniform-height numerals vs
old-style numerals (which have, effectively, ascenders and descenders)?
-- 
Dick Dunn     rcd@ico.isc.com -or- ico!rcd       Boulder, CO   (303)449-2870
   ...But is it art?